Lightweight network monitoring program

[Matt Shields]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
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How about smokeping?  It's perfect for this and it creates nice graphs too

-matt