ETHERMON, Networking, Ethernet line activity monitor

ETHERMON is a software implementation of an Ethernet line activity 
monitor. It uses any VAX/VMS DEC-compatible Ethernet interface to 
collect the data, and reports statistics in a form similar to the VMS 
MONITOR utility. It also can collect Ethernet data for post-processing 
by a user-supplied offline program (sample programs are supplied). ETHERMON 
can determine symbolic identifications of remote nodes automatically, or 
have them defined manually; these symbolic identifications are used 
in ETHERMON's displays and reports. ETHERMON can also recognize equipment 
other than DEC's on the Ethernet.

ETHERMON.COM is the build file; the documentation is stored in the files
ETHERMON.PS (PostScript), ETHERMON.LN0 (DEC LN03), ETHERMON.LPT ("dumb"
line printer or plain-text), and ETHERMON.MSS (Scribe manuscript source).
The on-line help library ETHERMON.HLB must be in the same directory as 
ETHERMON.EXE when executing the program in order for the built-in HELP 
command to work. A full file manifest is given in section 2.1 of the user's
manual.

ETHERMON's executable can be run either by a foreign command definition 
or a DCL RUN command. The unsupported utilities are to be invoked by RUN 
command only (they do not check the command line for their parameters).
A protected shareable image must be compiled and linked under your current
version of VAX/VMS and installed by your system administrator before use;
please see section 2.2 of the user's manual before using ETHERMON.

These files were compiled and linked using VAX FORTRAN V5.3 and VAX/VMS 
V5.2-1. Naturally, the executables will not run on an earlier version of 
VMS; feel free to rebuild the code.

If you have any questions or comments, the author's address is in the 
user's manual. I welcome comments regarding bugs and possible improvements
for ETHERMON, although I cannot promise to add every feature you ask for.
Thank you for trying this program.

Andrew Pavlin, TCP/IP network administrator
General Electric Co., Aerospace Information Technology
Syracuse, NY 13221 U.S.A.
email: pavlin@syr.ge.com
voice: 1-315-456-6212
fax:   1-315-456-0956
(information current as of 29 October 1992)