https://watcher204.cscf.uwaterloo.ca/tools/

Tools that are still current are documented here. the datasets for tools that you cannot make changes to are updated once every night overnight

SWAudiT

• used to audit switches and commrooms
• soon to be deprecated in favour of the ONA integrated SWAudiT (coming soon?)

Corpus Hostus

• also known as the deadhosts system
• uses data gathered from the scanning modules (SevScanSoft) to determine what it believes are inactive hostnames
• can generate a csv list for mass mailing or a hostname only list
• can detect hosts that have tried hard to mask their presence through ARPing (if enabled)

Query tools

• fairly simple tools that query the gathered data for certain pieces of information

Other tools

• Automailer: a command line script to take a csv and a template, mail merge them, and mail out the contents
  • this was used primarily as the middle step that required human intervention to get mails out to users asking them about their hostnames

-- SevernTsui - 25 Aug 2004