Network Monitoring Appliance

"Used components:

* Ubuntu 8.04.3 JeOS as OS
* Nagios 2.11 for monitoring and alarming
* Smokeping 2.3 to observe latencies and paketloss
* MRTG 2.14.7 to observe networktraffic's tendencies
* RRDTool 1.2.19 as Round-Robin Database for storing all measurement data
* Lighttpd 1.4.19 as fast, lightweight webserver frontend
* weathermap4rrd for illustrating the networkweather
* ssmtp as extremely lightweight MTA for maildelivery"

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