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                          08/15/1999 Beta 4 of 0.0.4 is now available on
 [Contributors]                      the downloads page, along with an
 [Projects]                          updated revision of the plugins.
 [Wish List]              08/06/1999 Two mailing lists have been setup on
 [Upcoming Versions]                 OneList for use with this project.
 [Change Log]                        Click here for details.
 [Development Log]        08/02/1999 Moshe Bar, a columnist for BYTE,
                                     talks about NetSaint in this article
                                     on Linux and network monitoring!
Poll
 I plan on               Download
 running
 NetSaint                The latest "stable" version of NetSaint is 0.0.3.
 under:                  However, the beta release of 0.0.4 is pretty good
                         and I would suggest giving it a try. Both are
 Linux                   available on the downloads page.
 SunOS/Solaris
 IRIX                    Introduction
 HP-UX
 AIX                     NetSaint is a program that will monitor hosts and
 OSF/1                   services on your network. It has the ability to
 Tru64 UNIX              email or page you when a problem arises and when a
 *BSD                    problem is resolved. NetSaint is written in C and
 Cygwin                  is designed to run under Linux (and some other
 Other                   *NIX variants) as a background process,
                         intermittently running checks on various services
                         that you specify. The actual service checks are
                         performed by separate "plugin" programs which
                         return the status of the checks to NetSaint.
                         Several CGI programs are included with NetSaint in
                         order to allow you to view the current service
                         status, problem history, notification history, and
                         log file via the web.

                         Sample Output

                         [Image]Click here to see sample output from
                                NetSaint 0.0.4. To see the current status
                         of all monitored services, be sure to click on the
                         "Status Detail" and "Status Overview" links.

                         Features

                           1. Monitoring of network services (via TCP port,
                              SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
                           2. Plugin interface to allow for user-developed
                              service checks
                           3. Contact notifications when problems occur and
                              get resolved (via email, pager, or
                              user-defined method)
                           4. Ability to define event handlers to be run
                              during service or host events (for proactive
                              problem resolution)
                           5. Web output (current status, notifications,
                              problem history, log file, etc.)

                         License

                         NetSaint is free software and is released under
                         the GNU General Public License. More information
                         on the GPL and the open source software model can
                         be found at www.opensource.org

                         Documentation

                         An online copy of the HTML documentation can be
                         found here.

                         Release Notes

                         Several new features have been added in 0.0.4.
                         Read what's new in this version for an overview of
                         these additions. Click here to read the Change
                         Log.

                         Karl DeBisschop and Charlie Cook have come through
                         again and helped to get things working under
                         Solaris, IRIX, and some other systems, so try it
                         out. If you have problems compiling, installing,
                         or running NetSaint on non-Linux systems, let me
                         know!

                         Acknowledgements

                         A list of contributors to the development of
                         NetSaint can be found here.

                         Known Bugs

                         A list of known bugs and issues with various
                         versions of NetSaint can be found here.

                         Feedback

                         Send comments, questions, bug reports, ideas for
                         enhancements, etc. to me at netsaint@linuxbox.com

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