[HECnet] Updated Rampage Watchdog for OpenVMS 7.3 (and later?)

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

supratim at riseup.net writes:

>What monitoring tools are folks using here?
>
>I have so far found Ergosol's Watchdog - it provides a neat solution to 
>high-level server security, status and connectivity monitoring with 
>email alerts. I tweaked it a little for adjusting it to OpenVMS 7.3 - 
>you can grab it from http://sanyal.duckdns.org:81/pub/rampage.sav
>
>I am getting (NUMEROUS!) emails from all intrusion attempts and whenever 
>someone logs in to the monitored accounts, as well as when any of the 
>monitored HECnet nodes or internet IPs are unreachable.
>...

As maintainer/author of Clyde-Digital's-(then)-> Raxco's-(then)-> ProvN's
Intruder Alert product, emails -- such as provided by your Watchdog -- will
soon overwhelm you and you'll soon either ignore them, or supress them, or
sequester them for review well after the fact.

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