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| DATE | 2004-02-04 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Open-source Linux offers alternative
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:45, Inker, Evan wrote:
> Last year, Harrington, director of infrastructure systems at Birch Telecom,
> installed a new software tool called NetSaint. The program is designed to
> monitor the company's network resources.
>
> Initially, the program wasn't working exactly as Harrington had hoped.
>
> "We had instances where we couldn't get certain pieces of the network
> monitored the way we wanted to," Harrington recalled.
>
> Luckily, NetSaint is an open-source program, meaning anyone can tinker with
> its code, not just the company that made it.
Sadly no one told her NetSaint *isn't* a new program, in fact it's a
discontinued program, due to trademark lawsuit threats.
Nagios is the successor.
- Ron
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