From: "Ryan Casey" <scfiead@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: ANNOUNCE: PortMon 0.6 (w/location)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:58:57 -0500

I am pleased to announce the availablility of PortMon 0.6.

PortMon is a port monitor program that keeps track of open ports on servers
to be sure they are still up and talking.

This program can track an unlimited number of IP/Port combinations, but
currently is a (stripped-down) bwidget ListBox, with no scrollbars.  So I
guess you are limited by screen height.  Scrollbars will be next version. (I
decided to put out this version because it is fully usable, and if I kept
waiting for ALL the features I wanted to put in, I'd never release
anything.)

It does have a couple of idiosyncracies, so read the PortMon.txt file.
(Namely, it performs best if you are running name resolution on a local
hosts file.)

Quick History:
This program grew out of a 1/2 day project that I wrote to support my
company taking over the monitoring of a site.  We were supposed to implement
HP OpenView, but at the time it looked like the templates would not be
available.  So I wrote this as a 'quick hack' to make sure the VPN tunnel,
the external interfaces, Oracle listeners, and Dynamo threads were all up,
as well as the management ports.

Please let me know any thoughts, suggestions, bug reports, etc. at
cardtable@go.to or scfiead@hotmail.com.

You can find the package at http://cardtable.sourceforge.net/tcltk/

Ryan P. Casey