<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="LinuxDoc-Tools 0.9.21"> <TITLE>The Linux Networking Overview HOWTO: Network Management</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-10.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-8.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-10.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-8.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s9">9.</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9">Network Management</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss9.1">9.1</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9.1">Network management applications</A> </H2> <P>There is an impressive number of tools focused on network management and remote administration. Some interesting remote administration projects are linuxconf and webmin: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.webmin.com/webmin/">Webmin</A></LI> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/">Linuxconf</A></LI> </UL> </P> <P>Other tools include network traffic analysis tools, network security tools, monitoring tools, configuration tools, etc. An archive of many of these tools may be found at <A HREF="http://www.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/">Metalab</A></P> <H2><A NAME="ss9.2">9.2</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9.2">SNMP</A> </H2> <P>The Simple Network Management Protocol is a protocol for Internet network management services. It allows for remote monitoring and configuration of routers, bridges, network cards, switches, etc... There is a large amount of libraries, clients, daemons and SNMP based monitoring programs available for Linux. A good page dealing with SNMP and Linux software may be found at : <A HREF="http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html">http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html</A></P> <HR> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-10.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO-8.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html#toc9">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
