satool - A System Administrator's Cockpit, An Implementation
Todd Miller, Christopher Stirlen, and Evi Nemeth
University of Colorado, Boulder
Abstract
Monitoring a large number of machines in a distributed environment can
be time consuming and inefficient. Often a system administrator
discovers there is a problem with a machine or network link when a
frustrated user calls. satool provides a way to efficiently monitor
groups of machines and identify problems and potential problems
quickly; it's sort of an early warning system for sysadmins. satool is
composed of three independent parts: an SNMP (Simple Network
Management Protocol) agent that runs on each machine being monitored,
a database that collects data from each client machine, and a
graphical user interface (GUI) that acts as the interface between the
user and the database.
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