Big Sister is a monitoring software that tracks the health of both system and network in real-time.
Big Sister is a system and network health monitoring application that operates in real time. To use this application, some Perl modules and other software packages are required. The following Perl modules are necessary: GD (if graphical displays are used), Simon Leinen's SNMP, LWP::UserAgent (enables realhttp test, and allows plugins to be installed directly from the Big Sister download site), URI (goes together with LWP::UserAgent), and Net::SMTP (if alarms are to be sent via SMTP and not "mail" command). Regarding other software packages, RRDTool is required if performance data collection is used, and SpeedyCGI speeds up Big Sister CGIs. These packages need their binaries to be installed in a directory included in Big Sister's PATH, and /usr/bin is the recommended choice.
Big Sister has several noteworthy features such as monitoring of networked systems, providing a simple real-time view of network status, notifying when systems become critical, generating a history of status changes, and logging and displaying various system performance data.
The latest release of Big Sister includes several new features, such as the addition of 'users' test to the default uxmon-net files, the removal of "warnings" pragmas for backwards compatibility, and the addition of distinct users perf logging to who_numusers, added graphtemplates for numusers. The software also includes Debugging code, SlowRequester, and the Nut module. Additionally, the application now uses Time::HiRes if available instead of gettimeofday_syscall.
Overall, Big Sister is a powerful network monitoring tool that offers a variety of features and capabilities.
Big Sister has several noteworthy features such as monitoring of networked systems, providing a simple real-time view of network status, notifying when systems become critical, generating a history of status changes, and logging and displaying various system performance data.
The latest release of Big Sister includes several new features, such as the addition of 'users' test to the default uxmon-net files, the removal of "warnings" pragmas for backwards compatibility, and the addition of distinct users perf logging to who_numusers, added graphtemplates for numusers. The software also includes Debugging code, SlowRequester, and the Nut module. Additionally, the application now uses Time::HiRes if available instead of gettimeofday_syscall.
Overall, Big Sister is a powerful network monitoring tool that offers a variety of features and capabilities.
What's New
Version 1.02: N/A