17. Planned Modules

17.1. RSN

Self Monitoring

A specialist module to ensure watch Cheesewire only might be appropriate, running frequently, but with low system load. Or perhaps this should be an independent script?

diff, CVS/Subversion

A module to monitor changes to files by looking at thei contents, cf. Paranoid Penguin: Verifying Filesystem Integrity with CVS, Linux Journal, Issue 94.

log-monitoring

Use remote logs from a dedicated log-server with IDM_log_monitoring?

17.2. Tentative

IDM_ntop

...or similar?

libpcap.so, tcpdump or similar

Have a play with packet-level stuff --- see Perl for System Administration, pub. O'Reilly.