MonkeyMental.com

MonkeyMental is a development group dedicated to making life easier. We specialize in developing software that will help sysadmins, operations groups, etc. do their jobs more quickly and efficiently. We are also very good and converting data from one source (or format) to another.

• CDPR @ Sourceforge
  • CDPR is the Cisco Discovery Protocol Reporter. This software will tell you which switch and port your device is plugged into. It is known to compile and run on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX and Windows (using pcap). In verbose mode, it decodes the entire CDP packet including information such as native VLAN, device capabilities, etc. It also has the ability to report the data back to a server so that you can use CDPR to keep an ever updating database of which devices are on which switch port. This code has had several additions made to it at the request of Cisco and is used in many of their labs. Over 12K downloads from SF.net
• sysklogd-sql @ Sourceforge
  • sysklogd-sql is a modification to the standard syslog daemon to allow it to log syslog events to a SQL database natively. MySQL and PostgreSQL are supported. Once events are stored in a SQL database it becomes very easy to view syslog entries any any format the user wishes. Because this is based on the standard syslog daemon, all of the existing features you would expect to work do, including remote event reception. This allows you to point all of your devices at a single sysklogd-sql server and then have the ability to only see events that match your criteria at a glance. This software save my IT group nearly 2000 man hours a year. Over 2K downloads from SF.net