Where possible I have provided hypertext links to further sources of information on the tool. These links vary in quality ranging from a pointer to the vendors home page, to the man pages entry, and to how to download the code.

We welcome corrections such as identifying broken links (especially if you can provide an alternate/update), since over the years companies are absorbed by others, disappear, split up, change their web site etc. To find broken links, we use CheckLink suggested by Brad Canham, and even better the Chrome browser extension for checking links, suggested by Brian Albert Jensen. Others we have found useful include Dead Link Checker, and Link Quality at a Glance from Hans van der Graaf.

Some links such as BasicState and Lemon give a 404 error code or a 405 code but appear to be accessible and so currently are left in. Others such as NetLogger sometimes timeout, but usually work. See the Footnotes for some alerts (identified by superscripts).

Suggesting Additions/Corrections etc. This is a volunteer, unfunded effort. This helps assure its independence. Increasingly new additions are from reader suggestions/recommendations. If you have a suggestion for adding something: please send an email to Cottrell at slac.stanford.edu making sure that you indicate where the tool fits in the hierarchy, provide a URL to get more information on the tool, and provide a short one sentence description of the tool's purpose with no marketing hyperbole. Also if you notice out of date or incorrect links (e.g. links that go to sites that are not relevant to the link) please report. Thanks.

Commercial Monitoring Tools, not integrated with an NMP [Contents]

Public Domain or Free Network Monitoring Tools [Contents]

Airwave Management PlatformT (AMP) wireless network management software provides centralized control for Wi-Fi networks. Features include: access point configuration management, reporting, user tracking, help desk views, and rogue AP discovery.

NetSpot is an app for wireless site surveys, Wi-Fi analysis, and troubleshooting on Mac OS X and Windows.

Auxiliary Tools to Enable: Monitoring, Analysis, Report Creation or Simulation [Contents]

AlarmTILT allows notifification, warning and informing distributed groups of people. Telecom operator independent, AlarmTILT relies on multi-channel communication to dispatch two-way emails, two-way SMS text messages and two-way voice text-to-speech calls to PCs, mobile phones, landlines, PDA/Smartphones, Blackberries, Iphones and more. AlarmTILT provides special plugins for integration with Nagios and WhatsUp NMS systems and generic plugins for any other NMS able to generate an email alert or dump an alert to a file.

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GIF Manipulation and Animation Alchemy Mindwork's GIF Construction Set is a shareware tool for Windows. GIFBuilder is freeware for the Mac. WhirlGIF 2 is a UNIX command-line utility to take a series of GIF files and output an animated GIF.

Mapping tools Generic mapping Tools is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes with support data such as GSHHS coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. GMT is developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

Alerting Tools PagerDuty PagerDuty collects alerts from server monitoring tools, provides an overall view of all monitoring alarms, and alerts an on-duty engineer if there's a problem with comprehensive calendaring, escalation and alerting all in one.

Plotting tools ChartDirector a chart component control library for ASP/COM/VB/.NET/PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/ColFusion/C++ Charte free web based chart editor for non techies. GDChart Easy to use C, Perl, Python APIs, high performance library to create charts and graphs in PNG, GIF and WBMP format. Grafana 2 open platform for analytics and monitoring. Gnuplot a command-line driven interface function plotting utility. Google Charts. Ploticus non-interactive plotting package for Unix & Windows. Has mouseover and mouse click capabilities.

Analysis & Visualization tools Analyse-it is a software add-in for Microsoft Excel that includes over 30 parametric & non-parametric statistics, including descriptive statistics, box-whisker plots, correlation, multiple linear regression analysis, ANOVA, & chi-square statistics for general statistical research. AIEngine is an interactive/programmable Python/Ruby/Java/Lua packet inspection engine with capabilities of learning without any human intervention, NIDS(Network Intrusion Detection System) functionality, DNS domain classification, network collector, network forensics and many others. AIEngine also helps network/security professionals to identify traffic and develop signatures for use them on NIDS, Firewalls, Traffic classifiers and so on. Maple. MatLab. moodss a graphical monitoring application. The core takes care of managing modules (loading and unloading), displaying modules data through sortable tables and diverse graphical viewers, handling user set threshold conditions with email alerts, recording and browsing data history from a database. moodss can predict the future, using sophisticated statistical methods and artificial neural networks, and therefore be used for capacity planning. PV-Wave. SAS. S-Plus.

Simulation/Modeling Network Simulator (ns). Xplot.

