ISpy v1.0

About

ISpy is a network monitoring tool for Linux and Unix systems. It watches a user-defined set of ports and sends an email alert when any of the monitored ports changes status.

Requirements

ISpy depends on the following:

Requirements

Installation
  1. Make sure the prerequisites mention in the previous section have been installed.
  2. Copy ispy to a directory in your path (e.g. /usr/bin)
  3. Copy ispy.1 to a directory in your manpath (e.g. /usr/man/man1)
  4. Copy ispy.conf.5 and ispy.state.5 to a directory in your manpath (e.g. /usr/man/man1)
  5. Copy ispy.conf to /etc (or another location, see ispy.1 for details) and edit it as appropriate (see ispy.conf.5).
  6. Initialie ISpy by running 'ispy --reset'
  7. Add an entry for ISpy in /etc/crontab Note that if the configuration and state files reside somewhere other than /etc then you may have to specify their locations on the command line using the -c and -s options.
    */1 * * * * username /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/ispy
    See crontab(5) for details on doing this.

Configuration

See the ispy.1 manpage for details.
See also the ispy.conf.5 and ispy.state.5 manpages.

History

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to:
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place
Suite 330
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.