This program is a network monitor.
Skipole-Monitor allows the user to input host IP addresses, it then regularly pings these hosts and displays their status via a built-in web server. It can optionally send email alerts and syslog messages if the hosts change status.
So calling http://your_pc_address:8000 will display pages showing green, yellow or red host or group symbols.
Each host is pinged four times every interval (default five minutes), and symbols are displayed as:
green : if three or four pings are successful
yellow : if only one or two are successful
red : if all four fail
As well as hosts, group symbols are displayed, and can be opened to show hosts, or sub-groups nested within. The operator can create groups, and sub-groups via the gui.
It has been tested on Windows XP and Linux platforms.
Windows users; to install, download and run skipolemonitor_0_80_py25_install.exe
Linux users; a tar file of Python source code is available in the downloads section. You will also need WxPython and the Python Imaging Library (PIL) which are used to provide the gui and graphing functions. See the Wiki for details.
To upgrade: save the network data somewhere safe, uninstall the old version, re-install the new version.
Further information, including screen shots can be found at