Polling

Simple Server Objects (ssobjects) are a set of objects meant to take the chore out of writing server and client applications that use TCP/IP sockets for communicating. It provides a consistent and stable interface. All of the grunt work of polling or selecting sockets, desiding what socket sent... Platforms: *nix

rrdcollect-remote is a Perl daemon that uses the rrdcollect ability to print RRD updates commands to its standard output to do updates from a remote machine using a persistent RSH or SSH connection. Thus you can centralize rrdcollect outputs of several hosts on a single repository with no need... Platforms: *nix

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Web site poll from Key Survey is a powerful and effective way to get instant feedback and increase your site's popularity among Internet users. By adding a Web Poll you will allow your visitors to quickly give their opinion on a current event. At that all results are available online... Platforms: Windows, Windows CE

MJ Registry Watcher is a simple registry, file and directory hooker/poller, that safeguards the most important startup files, registry keys and values, and other more exotic registry locations commonly attacked by trojans. It has very low resource usage, and is set to poll every 30 seconds by... Platforms: Windows

GearVox is a talking time and e-mail notification utility. It features: configurable periodic polling of POP e-mail account; can launch your e-mail client software; notification via Microsoft Agent, it will speak the sender's name and e-mail subject; intelligent polling will remember the... Platforms: Windows

playSMS is a flexible Web-based Mobile Portal System that it can be made to fit to various services such as an SMS gateway, bulk SMS, personal messaging systems, corporate and group communication tools. This project was first wrote in year 2003. Feature Highlights - Multiple database engine... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

ZABBIX is software for monitoring of your applications, network and servers. ZABBIX project supports both polling and trapping techniques to collect data from monitored hosts. A flexible notification mechanism allows easy and quickly configure different types of notifications for pre-defined... Platforms: *nix

sshutout is a daemon that periodically monitors log files, looking for multiple failed login attempts via the Secure Shell daemon. sshutout is meant to mitigate what are commonly known as "dictionary attacks," i.e. scripted brute force attacks that use lists of user IDs and passwords to effect... Platforms: *nix

Simple Sockets Library provides a simple C programming interface to sockets. The Simple Sockets Library makes sockets easy to use and comes as public domain source code. It resembles Cs file I/O, uses whatever port is available, has named servers and port reuse, streaming/blocking sockets used,... Platforms: *nix

PunJab is a HTTP jabber client interface. It is a SOAP, XMLRPC, JEP-0025 or JEP-0124 server that allows persistent client connections to a jabber server. PunJab can be used for many things, but its main purpose is to allow for stateless applications (ie web) a stateful connection to jabber.... Platforms: *nix

smspasswd software provides two factor authentication via cell phone short message service (SMS). The reason I wrote this was because of all the pesky SSH brute force attacks, which continue to build in numbers. I didn’t want to waste money and time on using tokens because the few people who... Platforms: *nix

ifstat is a tool to report network interface bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. It can monitor local interfaces by polling the kernel counters, or remote hosts interfaces using SNMP. fstat gathers these statistics from the kernel internal counters, which is highly... Platforms: *nix

PyOPC is a Python library implementing the OPC XML Data Access Protocol Version 1.01 (OPC XML-DA 1.01). PyOPC supports the easy creation of XMLDA-compliant clients and servers without having to deal with the SOAP protocol and server issues. The Open Linking and Embedding for Process Control... Platforms: *nix

Gapcmon is a gtk/glib desktop monitor program for the apcupsd package. Apcupsd interfaces with UPS power systems on local or networked systems. gapcmon connects to apcupsd via the NIS api to collect and displays the current operational state of the UPS. A Gtk2/GLib2 GUI application used to... Platforms: *nix

NagiosAppender is a pure Java implementation of a Log4j appender that allows the developer/administrator to send log records to Nagios via the NCSA server (using the push model). Nagios Appender project provides a simple solution for developers/administrators whose only alternative is to... Platforms: *nix

memtest86+ is a memory tester which is based on memtest86 v3.0, and provides an up-to-date version of this useful tool, which aims to be as reliable as the original. It has been fixed to work on AMD64 systems, and also properly detects all current CPUs and motherboard chipsets. The project... Platforms: *nix

XPde is a complete desktop environment for Linux on x86. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box. Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the widgets of X applications, just a... Platforms: *nix

Crossroads is a load balance and failover utility for TCP-based services. Crossroads Load Balancer is a daemon program running in userspace and features extensive configurability, polling of backends using "wakeup calls", detailed status reporting, "hooks" for special actions when backend calls... Platforms: *nix

trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode (together with trickled) or in stand alone mode. trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. Essentially it provides, to the application, a new version of the functionality that... Platforms: *nix