Data Collection Techniques

AirFart is a wireless tool created to detect wireless devices, calculate their signal strengths, and present them to the user in an easy-to-understand fashion. It is written in C/C++ with a GTK front end. Airfart supports all wireless network cards supported by the linux-wlan-ng Prism2 driver... Platforms: *nix

ego-boost is a Python module that will do nothing less than boosting the ego of any Python developer who has made packages available via PyPI. Finally, with one simple command and a cronjob you can track the downloads of your packages over time. Here is a simple example: $ ego-boost collect... Platforms: *nix

Ecora Documentor is an agentless Windows® application that installs on a Windows workstation and collects hundreds of thousands of configuration settings to generate on-demand, detailed configuration reports. With a click of a button, users can document Microsoft Windows and Exchange servers,... Platforms: Windows

A Windows« application that collects configuration settings and documents them in HTML and Word file formats. Configuration settings collected from Windows. Great for documentation. Eliminates the time-consuming and error prone manual process of data collection and ensures accurate, standardized... Platforms: Windows

TestDisk was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table!). TestDisk has features for both novices and... Platforms: *nix, Windows

Freeblisket provides a set of tools for creating e-commerce Web sites. It features secure authentication, customer data collection, an administrative Web interface, support for Paypal and other payment methods, and a single interface for multiple e-commerce Web sites.. Platforms: *nix

The EDDIE Tool is a system monitoring, security and performance analysis agent developed entirely in Python. It runs standalone on a system and performs checks and other actions as defined by an extensible configuration. The EDDIE Tool can perform all basic system monitoring checks, such as:... Platforms: *nix

cflowd is a flow analysis tool currently used for analyzing Ciscos NetFlow enabled switching method. The current release (described below) includes the collections, storage, and basic analysis modules for cflowd and for arts++ libraries. This analysis package permits data collection and... Platforms: *nix

AirFart is a wireless tool created to detect wireless devices, calculate their signal strengths, and present them to the user in an easy-to-understand fashion. It is written in C/C++ with a GTK front end. Airfart supports all wireless network cards supported by the linux-wlan-ng Prism2 driver... Platforms: *nix

MatrixSSL provides an embedded SSL implementation for small footprint devices. PeerSec MatrixSSL is an embedded SSL implementation designed for small footprint devices and applications requiring low overhead per connection. The library is less than 50K on disk with cipher suites. It includes... Platforms: *nix

SmokePing is a delux latency measurement tool. SmokePing project can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm datastore and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network... Platforms: *nix

OpenNMS is a FREE and the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote... Platforms: *nix

QWizard is a Perl module that can display a series of questions, get the answers, and act on the answers. SYNOPSIS # # The following code works as a application *or* as a CGI script both: # use QWizard; my %primaries = ( starting_node => { title => "starting here", introduction =>... Platforms: *nix

Bootchart is a software for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS-encoded chart. The boot process is modified to start the boot... Platforms: *nix

JTides is an advanced, accurate, easy-to-use tide and current prediction program.JTides predicts tides and currents using a large database of US and worldwide locations. It graphs its predictions in many useful ways. In comparison tests, JTides' predictions are in good to excellent agreement with... Platforms: Mac

JMicroVision is an image analysis toolbox for measuring and quantifying components of high-definition images. The program contains most of the common image processing operations, has a simple and intuitive user interface, an efficient visualization system and innovative features. It contains... Platforms: Mac

More powerful than iPhoto, but less complex than Photoshop, MagicBrush-Photo allows you to apply any of the Mac OS X image filters selectively to your images with pin-point accuracy. Quickly smooth blemishes, selectively sharpen, and convert your images to a format for uploading to the web. Use... Platforms: Mac

The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users. HDD Guardian alerts you in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change.... Platforms: Windows

The Warecase eXtended Task Monitor (XTM) is a powerful auxiliary tool designed for simplifying the environment of the software developer. Extended Windows Task Manager and Performance Monitoring tool, for optimizing Developer Environments. eXtended Task Manager can give fast solutions for sudden... Platforms: Windows, XP, 2003, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64

UCanCode provides a complete set of services, consisting of design tools and a software development kit (SDK), for developers who want to create a user interface for industrial monitoring and process control drawing SCADA applications. These displays feature highly customized graphical objects... Platforms: Windows