Top Monitoring Software for Linux

imsniff is a pcap-based instant messaging sniffer. It captures the IM traffic in the network and is able to log conversations, contact lists, profile information, incoming email notifications, other MSN events, etc. Tested in Linux and Windows. You can...

gShield is an aggressive, modular, ipchains-based firewall script. gShieldConf is a small program to edit the configuration files for it. It is written using the gtk toolkit. It is released under the GNU GPL.Please note, gShield must be installed prior to...

knockd is a port-knock server. It listens to all traffic on an ethernet (or PPP) interface, looking for special "knock" sequences of port-hits. A client makes these port-hits by sending a TCP (or UDP) packet to a port on the server. This port need not be...

PShutter lets you firewall off ports such as ssh, and selectively enable access with a one-time password. For example, if you want to log into the server from a friend's house, you pull out a list of one-time passwords and point the web browser at a URL...

Firewall is a set of scripts (firewall, fwup and fwdown) that implement an ipchains firewall and various forms of network address and port translation. All you have to do is read the policy file and edit it to reflect your topology and filtering...

ROPE is a "match module" for Linux IpTables that allows packets to be matched using highly flexible rules, written in a simple purpose-designed scripting language. It was written initially to provide support for the next phase of the P2PWall project for...

httptype is a program that returns the http host software of a website. It is written in Perl.httptype reads a list of http hosts and optionally the port number for each of these. It queries each host, displaying the type of HTTP server running on that...

ssh-smart is a really small software (a proof-of-concept) to put private identity from ssh on smartcard (memory card)).For the moment, we use the smartcard (from...

DJohn is a distributed John the Ripper.With Distributed John (DJohn) you can crack passwords using several machines to get passwords sooner than using a single machine. The cracking in itself is done by John The Ripper and djohn's server (djohnd) divides...

Sophosticated consists of two BASH scripts. One script installs Sophos virus scanner updates from CD, while the other downloads, unpacks, and installs the latest IDEs.These scripts needs BASH or a compatible shell. They were originally made and tested on...