Unnoc version 1.0.10.1 2007-07-11 Jason Schoonover http://unnoc.org This is Unnoc. Welcome! For Security info, see the doc/SECURITY file. For Installation, see the doc/INSTALL file. For Upgrading, read the doc/UPGRADE file. For the VMware appliance, see doc/README.vmware-appliance. For legal and license info, see the doc/LICENSE and doc/LEGAL file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ABOUT Unnoc is a NOC network monitoring application that is designed to integrate traffic graphs (RRDTool) with SNMP host checking, monitoring and graphing. It uses native SNMP to monitor servers, Wireless Access Points, UPS's, routers, firewalls, network switches--anything SNMP-enabled, and will send out pages and email alerts if something is wrong. * Monitoring for Linux/UNIX and Microsoft Servers/Workstations: - Process monitoring - CPU Load / Load Average - Memory Usage - Disk Usage - Network Interface traffic * Completely integrated with RRD for all graphs * Configurable Email alerts for all devices monitored * Uptime monitor plugin, displays the mean/min/max time of all uptimes * Throughput display for any device that can monitor SNMP interfaces * Flexible and completely customizeable configuration * Application specific plugins for: - VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 - Barracuda SPAM Firewalls - Cisco Aironets - Apple Airports - APC Smart-UPSs (single and 3 phase units) - Network Appliance Filers - EM01 Websensor Environment Monitor - OpenLDAP - PostgreSQL - MySQL An online demo is available at: http://unnoc.org/demo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PROJECT OVERVIEW Take a look at the DIRS file for what the directories are used for. Unnoc uses Perl on the backend, and PHP on the web frontend. Perl is much more flexible and powerful regarding collecting and processing the information. PHP is much more flexible and easier to write web apps for displaying the information. The majority of user interaction is with the PHP interface and the unnoc.conf config file. The index.php file is completely customizeable, you can make it look however you want. I've included many examples and different ways that you can display the host links, there are a few colored dots on the index page, they are: green okay yellow warnings red problems grey no info white being ingored These are the states they are in. Currently only email alerts are sent out on "problems" (red dots). Warnings (yellow dots) do not send out any nofitications. There are a few different types of hosts for unnoc, see the README.hosts and README.add_hosts for more information about these. There are quite a few plugins supported as well including Network Appliance Filers, Cisco Aironets, Apple Airports, EM01 Websensors, Barracuda SPAM Firewalls, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (ESX 3.x and VCMS 2.x support) and APC Smart-UPS's. Also OpenLDAP, MySQL and PostgreSQL monitoring as well. There is also a system status plugin that will email you the status of the NOC, see the README.system-status file fore more information. See the INSTALL file for installation instructions See the UPGRADE file for upgrade instructions See the WHATSNEW file for major changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- HELP NEEDED Unnoc is a project that started out back in 2002, and has evolved into a maturing open source project. I would like to hear any comments and suggestions that you have in helping to improve it! Also, if you think you can help out anywhere, please let me know! Currently what the project needs is documentation badly. If you are good at writing documentation, or think you can lend a hand to any portion, please dont hesitate to contact me! vim:tw=72:wm=1