zz1he@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU (Heather Ebey) (07/30/88)
Does anyone know of a program like MIT's netwatch to watch the activity on Apple's localtalk? -----------------INTERNET: hebey@ucsd.edu-------------------- Heather Ebey Voice: (619) 534-2448 UCSD, Academic Computing Center, C-010, La Jolla, CA. 92093 -----------------BITNET: hebey@ucsd.bitnet------------------
ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) (07/31/88)
In article <213@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU> zz1he@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU (Heather Ebey) writes: >Does anyone know of a program like MIT's netwatch to watch >the activity on Apple's localtalk? > >Heather Ebey hebey@ucsd.edu Apple sells a program called Inter*Poll Network Administrator's Utility. Their brocure says it does these things: - selective lists of active network devices - network mapping tools - integrity test of network path to a targeted device - system software version reporting - full internetwork support - support for Mac, Apple II, MS-DOS, and VAX computers The program is Apple part number M0697 and should cost a university purchaser around $80. Anyone used it? John O'Malley \ Personal Computing \ Purdue University \ (317) mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq \ Learning Resource Center \ Computing Center \ 494-9944
tjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Holodnik) (09/08/88)
APDA distributes a package called "Peek" written long ago by Richard
Andrews and Gursharan Sidhu. This is most nearly equivalent to MIT's Netwatch,
as well as being fairly standard (this was distributed with original AppleTalk
developer tools, I believe).
Farallon Computing (Berkeley, CA) sells a package called TrafficWatch
that performs similar functions, but will also construct output in the form of
an Excel spreadsheet; this I found to be pretty useful. This is a very good
product.
Apple's Interpoll is useful as a troubleshooting tool, although not so
much as a monitor. It will display all machines running on the network with
INITs that register your choosername or machine type on the network. Two such
INITs are "Responder" from Apple, and "RegisterName" from Farallon. What
Responder does for you is that it will also return driver and system
information when queried by Interpoll.
Hope this helps.
Tom Holodnik
Carnegie-Mellon University