Monitor Modules

What Are Monitor Modules

Monitor modules are the contained python scripts that perform the network monitoring functions. They could be modules that allow you to ping on a given schedule to monitor your network, tcp syn a host and port, send udp echo packets out, etc. Anything that can be coded up in Python (which is really anything) can be used as a means of monitoring the network.

Why Different Modules?

We use different modules because sometimes your problem does not manifest itself with any given situation. Perhaps pings are OK all the time, but DNS queries are being dropped. Perhaps DNS is ok but queries to a specific server are being dropped. Whatever it is, you can now write a plugin to handle your specific situation.