nefu 1.3 review

nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services over the network

License: BSD License File size: 307K Developer: Ed Colone

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nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services over the network. Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), SSH, IPP, DNS, HTTP, POP, NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web.

nefu monitors network services and reports eventual failures. Working from a discription of the network topography, nefu's algorithm prevents "false alarms" in the event of a network outage due to a dependency failure.

nefu is in production use at the University of Michigan, monitoring more than 250 servers (among which are U-M's IMAP, WWW, and LDAP Directory servers) and a variety of other systems. nefu is available under a BSD-style license.

What's New in This Release:
Improved TDK: documentation, portability, examples.
SMTP test says HELO
Thanks to Joel Brogniart