From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 19:28:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DE5F37B405 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:28:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH plain) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2002 03:28:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3C980293.1030708@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:31:31 -0600 From: Justin L Boss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network monitoring tools References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know about net mon but one way to impress them is to install samba and show them how much money they can save in license (m$'s total cost of owner ship, LOL). chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > > I know there are many, many network monitoring tools in the ports. I am > setting up a FreeBSD > box here at work, only the second one, with about 50 NT workstations and > 8 NT servers. So, > what can I run on this machine to use to monitor the NT network? > Something cool, flashy, etc, > whatever will turn the heads of my boss (the IT manager), and others > above him? This is a > NT shop, into which I have managed to get two bsd boxes, the first is > running a web server > and sendmail. The machine is a AMD800 and has a 19" monitor. I plan on > using XFCE for my > window manager, but also have KDE and Enlightenment/Gnome installed just > to show 'em off. > > Any suggestions would be great. > Thanks, > -- > Chip Wiegand > Computer Services > Simrad, Inc > www.simrad.com > chip.wiegand@simrad.com > > "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." > --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment > Corporation, 1977 > (They why do I have 7? Somebody help me!) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message