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Section: Unix

Added: Tue, Feb 17th 1998 14:55 UTC (10 years, 8 months ago)

Updated: Wed, Mar 16th 2005 12:41 UTC (3 years, 7 months ago)

About:
Big Brother is a combination of monitoring methods. Unlike SNMP where information is just collected and devices polled, Big Brother is designed in such a way that each local system broadcasts its own information to a central location. Simultaneously, Big Brother also polls all networked systems from a central location. This creates a highly efficient and redundant method for proactive network monitoring.

Author:
minitru [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://bb4.com/
Tar/GZ:
http://quest.com/solutions/download.asp
Mailing list archive:
http://support.bb4.com/

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 6 - Mature
[Environment] Console (Text Based), MacOS X, Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows)
[Intended Audience] End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License] Free for non-commercial use, Free To Use But Restricted
[Operating System] MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: IRIX, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] Security, System :: Monitoring, System :: Networking :: Monitoring, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» minitru (Owner)

» Rating: 7.30/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.03% (Rank 3611)
» Popularity: 7.94% (Rank 350)

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Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 1.9e 05-Jan-2004 Free To Use But Restricted

Articles referencing this project

Building a Network Management System
by Mark Cooper , in Editorials
Sun, Mar 13th 2005 00:00

Comments

[»] SNMP Traps?
by Simon Ditner - Nov 29th 2001 09:12:14

> Unlike SNMP where information is just collected and devices polled

That's not correct, SNMP Traps can be sent from SNMP capable devices to a collection station without being poled. Here's a brief introduction to how snmp works: snmp info

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[»] Re: SNMP Traps?
by minitru - Nov 29th 2001 11:00:19

> > Unlike SNMP where information is
> just collected and devices polled
>
> That's not correct, SNMP Traps can be
> sent from SNMP capable devices to a
> collection station without being
> poled.

Um, that's why I mentioned the phrase "just collected" above, as in traps being collected by a collection station...

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[»] Works Great
by Kimbo Mundy - Aug 9th 2001 14:03:44

I love BigBrother, it's a fabulous tool for monitoring web sites 24x7. I also use it to keep track of our LAN. Works like a charm on both Linux and Windows.

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