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Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes <at> mcaschool.net> writes: |
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> Hi Folks: |
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> I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the |
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> physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy |
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> nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run |
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> on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the |
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> port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can |
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> begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source |
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> / freeware is very very preferable. |
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check out jffnms, it's in portage now and works with a very large |
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array of routers, switches, snmp, and other devices/portocols. |
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There is also an excellent installation/configuration page: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html |
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The docs are new, and there is a jffnms.org support group. I have |
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yet to see, Javier fail to provide a monitoring solution for |
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any sort of device you may have. As one that builds/noodles |
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with all sorts of ethernet attached hardware, jffnms rules. |
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hth, |
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James |
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