Hey so I'm still quite a Linux noob but I love this OS. I don't want to switch back to Windows- not even at work! but this program would really make my life 1000x easier @ work. So is there an equivalent? Whats the best network monitor on Linux (BTW I'm running Ubuntu/Mint LTS 9 and 11.)

Really I need to be able to remotely look at the network specs of various routers and what not.

Please help!

Thank you in advance!

pwease?! I've searched and searched and still found nothing. You guys are my only hope!

biomimetic,
Nagios with the SNMP plugins will probably do everything you want, and then some.

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Yeah I ran across Nagios... but the install was pretty daunting. I've been working on it for 2 hrs now... and I'm still installing. But I'm going to trudge on... it seems like it can totally be worth it once I learn how to add my own hosts to it and actually start monitoring things.

Thank you so much for the answer though. Now that I see there are no other options I'm just going to suck it up and get this running.

biomimetic,
I noticed you use RH and derivatives. If you decide to play with Nagios, I've attached a how-to that I composed for work that is specific to CentOS.

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Agentbuzz- I'm sorry but I don't know what RH and derivatives are. I run Mint 9 LTS on my work computer. See total n00b. Can you (or anyone really) explain what RH and derivatives are?

Red Hat. Derivatives are things like Centos, Scientific Linux, which are, well, derived from Red Hat.

There are at least half a dozen different little apps that do something related to network monitoring, so there may be something useful that could be suggested, but I have no idea what Solarwinds actually does.

biomimetic,
I was sure you were using Red Hat or CentOS. That's why I attached that how-to. I see now that you are on Linux Mint, which is related to Debian/GNU. Oops.

salasi,
Solarwinds has a set of monitoring software applications that all go by the name of "Orion". It monitors anything with an SNMP MIB, you can set thresholds, send alerts, etc. It also will run Nagios scripts. I inherited it when I took a job a few years ago, and it's a useful product. But, as you know, the same things can be done for nearly nothing but your effort. No Capex project needed. Just cannibalize a few old DL320s to make one good one and put Nagios on it.