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Here are some of the most common resources for setting up and maintaining your own webserver. You will find resources that I have found to be useful to many of my colocation customers. Be sure to let me know if you have any questions or if there is something you have found useful that you would like to share with others. Send me an email at ashaver@he.net or I can be reached directly at 510-580-4194.

Monitoring Service

Alert Site - Router, Firewall, DNS, and Website monitoring

Network Monitoring

Misc Monitoring and Security Related Resources
Spong - A Simple Systems and Network Monitoring Package Son of Pong
Pong - Network Monitoring Software
Netsaint - Network Monitoring System - A nice package because it offers flexibility about different thresholds and times to send alerts.
SNIPS aka NOCOL Network Monitoring Software
Network Computing Article with review on multiple freely available open source Network Monitoring Packages

Solar Winds Network Management Tools The Engineers Tools provides a very comprehensive package at an affordable price. Here are some of the screen captures of the tools.

Fidelia Network Management software Commercial version of network monitoring software similar to NOCAL

Machine Monitoring