NetSage: Network Monitoring System Configuration Database

NetSage is intended to be a full featured management interface for use with open source network monitoring systems. Initial design will be for use with MON, with extensions for use with Cricket planned as well. But the design is intended to remain generic enough to allow the system to be used with other monitoring packages, with minimal changes.

I intend to update this webpage with project status information regularly, both for the interested members of the MON community, and for our internal management.

Updates:

• 11/25/02: Wow, it's been a while since I've updated the project pages. Phase One dragged on for quite a while longer then expected, due to some feedback that was received in August, and because we were waiting for our new 2-way pagers to arrive. We're now using Mon as our production monitoring system, with almost 10,000's lines of mon.cfg. We're running over 11,000 monitor scripts per hour, across the three machines doing the monitoring.
• 8/05/02: Various small schema updates. We've added support for multiple server configuration files, i.e. mon.cfg and auth.cf all coming from the same database. The example files haven't been updated. Our auto generated mon.cfg's are now up to over 2300 lines total, plus auth.cf files for all three servers.
• 7/30/02: Timeline updated. We had a few weeks where we were focusing on other projects, and we had some delays while we waited for hardware to arrive. But we're now actively monitoring lots of things with the new system. We're auto generating mon.cfg's for 2 slave machines and one master alert server, in total over 1800 lines of mon.cfg.
• 6/27/02: Timeline updated. Some minor database schema changes, and the relevant example files updated with current database format (minor changes) and more complete examples. Database APIs and example data and scripts will be available as soon as I get a chance.
• 6/03/02: Updated timeline with current status and revised schedule.
• 5/14/02: Updated Files page with XML-to-MON converter, and various minor updates.
• 5/10/02: Added Files page, with SQL Schema and various XML documents
• 5/7/02: Data Model diagram added to Diagrams page. Timeline updated