
>>>> NOTE <<<<

This is still experimental. Use it if you like, send patches if you
have some spare time. But note that this is not ready for everyday
usage.

<<<< ETON >>>>


This directory contains the source of the netguard system, as set
of scripts for scotty that implement a network monitoring and event
generation package. It can be used to collect statistics for trend
analysis or planning tasks, to coordinate net status monitoring
between a number of users and to create events when variables reach
user defined thresholds.

The package consists of a server process called netguard and two
client programs called snmp_netguard and ip_netguard that collect
statistic data. Two configuration files define what information
should be collected from which host. See the netguard man page
for more details.

INSTALLATION

The top level configure will set up the Makefile for installation.
Just type make install in the netguard directory to install the
netguard files.

Afterwards you have to select a server machine which should run the
netguard daemon. Log in to this machine and add a line to the rc.local
script that will start up the netguard daemon, e.g.

if [ -x /usr/local/etc/netguard ] ; then
	su schoek -c "/usr/local/etc/netguard 8765 /usr/tmp/netguard" \
		> /dev/null 2>&1
        echo -n ' netguard'
fi


The second parameter defines a directory where the data files are kept.
In this directory go to configuration files that must be changed to
your site specific needs. The files config.sample and variables.sample
in this directory may be used as a template to create your own config 
files.

If you have problems with netguard, you can either send email to
schoek@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Schoek) who wrote netguard or you can
send email to schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Juergen Schoenwaelder) or the
tkined mailing list (tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).

							Juergen
