MRTG

ActivePerl is a high-quality binary-only Windows' implementation of the popular PERL programming language.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: Double-click the MSI package and Windows Installer will kick in.

		Windows

Getif is a brilliant, and free, SNMP tool for Windows. It will probe a network for SNMP-compliant devices and report on them.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm
Operating system: Windows
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

MRTG is a comprehensive and highly-useful program for monitoring all SNMP-compliant devices on a network. This includes routers, switches, hubs and other items. The output is displayed in HTML and is easily viewed in a Web browser. MRTG contains many brilliant features for network administrators and high-end users including automatic notification on alarms.

Licence: GNU General Public License
Online: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg
Operating system: Linux, Windows
Requires: Windows version requires ActivePerl be installed.

Install instructions: Simply unpack the archive to a directory on your hard disk, preserving the hierarchy of all its files and folders.

		Linux, Windows

NET-SNMP is an open source implementation of SNMP - the Simple Network Management Protocol - for Linux, allowing performance counters and statistics to be gathered.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
Operating system: Linux
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

		Linux

ActivePerl contains one unfortunate bug which will prevent MRTG (and likely other programs too) from running. This has to be corrected and the easiest way is to replace the version on the hard disk with this file.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://members.cruzio.com/~jeffl/mrtg/docs/w95mrtg.htm
Operating system: Windows
Requires: ActivePERL already installed.

Install instructions: Save the file into the lib subdirectory where ActivePERL has been installed (c:\perl by default). Click OK when prompted to overwrite the existing file.

		Windows

SNMP-Informant is an implementation of SNMP - the Simple Network Management Protocol - for Windows, allowing performance counters and statistics to be gathered.

Licence: Standard version is free.
Online: http://www.snmp-informant.com/
Operating system: Windows NT4/2000/XP
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

		Windows

SNMPSniff is a free SNMP tool for Linux. It will probe a network for SNMP-compliant devices.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.scd.ucar.edu/nets/docs/netsadmin/Get-and-install-snmpsniff.html
Operating system: Linux
Requires: N/A

Install instructions: N/A

		Linux