Our Solutions

Netstatz believes that technology is a key driving force of today's economy. Our experience is in network monitoring and management and we firmly believe that easily manageable long-term Linux solutions are central to maintaining small and large enterprise networks.

Netstatz employs a variety of tools, each built by engineers in the community with a specific task in mind. We help to select a combination of tools that best suits current and future requirements for manageability, security, service levels and cost. Not every back room requires open source tools, however we have found very few that cannot benefit significantly from them.

Our solutions are comprised of a set of tool packages that have been customized, documented and deployed for a specific environment. Every solution we deploy has basic product qualities that include an awareness of ongoing security updates, a clear upgrade path with version specific dependencies, built-in intrusion detection, and a community of professional support.

2004 Updates

  • QoS traffic shaping router for multimedia streams
  • Video cable replacement - VLC streaming with V4L/TVcard acquisition
  • Refinement of OpenNMS solutions
  • Spam-proof email solutions (Postfix, Exim, Qmail + Amavis)
  • Security add-ons (exec-shield, aide, portsentry, and snort)

    LinuxDoc Processing Solutions

    Here is a SGML document produced with Lyx. Almost any Pentium class computer can easily be turned into an authoring workstation.

    Network Monitoring Solutions

    Have you ever seen a network shrink or become less complex?

    Network monitoring and management is critical to the workflow of any business that depends on network infrastructure to deliver email, web applications, file sharing services, and Internet connectivity to a community. It is also one of our stronger suits.

    OpenNMS enterprise grade network management platform

    The OpenNMS tool delivers powerful and scalable network management that was previously only available through tools requiring high initial investments and continued support of ridiculous licensing structures. The community that uses OpenNMS is constantly refining its features to provide additional benefits beyond the scope of current network management.

    This tool generates graphical Service Level reports and can be configured to suit your escalation and notification policies.

    Have a look at the screenshots below for a vivid idea of OpenNMS's potential in your network.

    Main Console - Outage summary

    Event Console - View live changes

    PDF Service Level reports by Email

    Realtime RRD graphs on any variable

    Network Firewall and Gateway Solutions

    The fwbuilder package provides a robust GUI inteface to managing firewalls of all sorts. Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux 2.4, Mac OS X and Cisco PIX are all supported in the latest versions. Based on the Checkpoint interface, this tool provides an abstraction layer to many powerful firewall technologies and is a key component of our firewall solutions. Check out the links below for some screenshots.

    Centrally Managed Firewall GUI

    Turning Advanced PIX knobs

    Network Flow Monitoring Solutions

    Network TOP or NTOP provides a feature rich traffic monitoring engine that is useful for system administrators and support staff to troubleshoot problem devices. In addition, thru plugins you can send traffic from your Cisco devices to this great interface. Check out the links below for some screenshots.

    NTOP Active Host List

    Web Server Solutions

    We can provide the low cost of ownership of a Debian GNU/Linux operating system combined with a powerful Apache web server. All the modules for PHP, Perl, CGI, ASP, Multimedia, GD, advanced web reports, etc. are provided via the .deb package management system allowing for seamless security updates to the cutting-edge aspects of your web technology. Debian stable packages come pre-wrapped as secure so do not expect too many updates.

    Database Server Solutions

    We deploy a number of database solutions including the powerful and GPL'd Postgres and MySQL engines. Simple GUI tools allow you direct web access to your data. Using the Perl DBI we will import and export data stored in Sybase/MS-SQL (TDS), Oracle, FoxPro, Excel, MySQL, PostgresSQL as well as any other format that has a DBD module. The DBD drivers extend to almost every format and allow for extreme flexibility when migrating software solutions that depend on an SQL backend.

    Answers to FAQ

    Debian Security

    Official Debian Mirrors

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