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Mark Newnham — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:34:29 -0000

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 * Monitor disk usage/cpu utilization/network utilization of configured devices
 * Receive alerts of equipment failures from configured devices
 * retrieve and serve documents via HTTP
-* Record alerts, monitored values into a database for later analysis
+* [Record alerts, monitored values into a database](Saving Values To A Database) for later analysis

 ### More complex tasks
 * send and receive custom ICMP packets

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Mark Newnham — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:07:46 -0000

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 * Monitor disk usage/cpu utilization/network utilization of configured devices
 * Receive alerts of equipment failures from configured devices
 * retrieve and serve documents via HTTP
+* Record alerts, monitored values into a database for later analysis

 ### More complex tasks
 * send and receive custom ICMP packets

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Mark Newnham — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:09:18 -0000

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-Welcome to the Scotty Tcl extension for network management
+Welcome to ***Tkined/Scotty***, A small footprint, easy too use, graphical and command line network management tool.  **Tkined** is the graphical front end and **Scotty** is the command line back end. Some of the things that can be done using this tool are:

-by Juergen Schoenwaelder and many contributors.
+### Simple tasks
+* Monitor and warn of failures of reachability in network attached devices
+* Monitor disk usage/cpu utilization/network utilization of configured devices
+* Receive alerts of equipment failures from configured devices
+* retrieve and serve documents via HTTP

-You are looking at Scotty, a software package which allows to build network management applications using Tcl (and Tk). The scotty package includes the Tnm Tcl extension which provides Tcl commands to
-
-* send and receive ICMP packets
+### More complex tasks
+* send and receive custom ICMP packets
 * query the Domain Name System (DNS)
-* access UDP sockets from Tcl
+* access UDP sockets
 * probe and use some selected SUN RPCs
-* retrieve and serve documents via HTTP
 * send and receive SNMP messages (SNMPv1, SNMPv2C, SNMPv3)
 * write special purpose SNMP agents in Tcl
 * parse and access SNMP MIB definitions
 * schedule jobs that are to be done regularly
 * realize event driven programming on network maps

-This scotty distributions also includes the sources for Tkined. Tkined is a network editor which allows to draw maps showing your network configuration. The most important feature of Tkined is its programming interface which allows network management applications to extend the capabilities of Tkined. Most applications for Tkined are written using the Tnm Tcl extension.
+### Platform
+The application runs in a Linux workstation environment, such as Debian and Ubuntu. It is easily virtualized under any of the currently available virtualization apps. Using the available binary distribution of the application, a virtualized system running under Virtualbox for windows can be up and running in under an hour.

+### Author
+The application was written by Juergen Schoenwaelder and many contributors.
+
+### History
 Scotty was dormant for more than 10 years, [Flightaware](http://flightaware.com) did a lot of work bringing the C code up to ANSI standards and put it up on GitHub, where I forked it and got it running again. 

 I moved it to Sourceforge to take advantage of Binary distributions, problem tracking etc.

+### Documentation
+
 You can start learning how to use it with [Getting Started With Tkined], understand the [Licensing], or read about the [Project Contributors]

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Mark Newnham — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:24:41 -0000

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 I moved it to Sourceforge to take advantage of Binary distributions, problem tracking etc.

-You can start learning how to use it with [Getting Started With Tkined], understand the [Licensing], or read about the [Contributors]
+You can start learning how to use it with [Getting Started With Tkined], understand the [Licensing], or read about the [Project Contributors]

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Mark Newnham — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:24:01 -0000

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-Welcome to your wiki!
+Welcome to the Scotty Tcl extension for network management

-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
+by Juergen Schoenwaelder and many contributors.

-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/tkined-scotty/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
+You are looking at Scotty, a software package which allows to build network management applications using Tcl (and Tk). The scotty package includes the Tnm Tcl extension which provides Tcl commands to

-[[members limit=20]]
+* send and receive ICMP packets
+* query the Domain Name System (DNS)
+* access UDP sockets from Tcl
+* probe and use some selected SUN RPCs
+* retrieve and serve documents via HTTP
+* send and receive SNMP messages (SNMPv1, SNMPv2C, SNMPv3)
+* write special purpose SNMP agents in Tcl
+* parse and access SNMP MIB definitions
+* schedule jobs that are to be done regularly
+* realize event driven programming on network maps
+
+This scotty distributions also includes the sources for Tkined. Tkined is a network editor which allows to draw maps showing your network configuration. The most important feature of Tkined is its programming interface which allows network management applications to extend the capabilities of Tkined. Most applications for Tkined are written using the Tnm Tcl extension.
+
+Scotty was dormant for more than 10 years, [Flightaware](http://flightaware.com) did a lot of work bringing the C code up to ANSI standards and put it up on GitHub, where I forked it and got it running again. 
+
+I moved it to Sourceforge to take advantage of Binary distributions, problem tracking etc.
+
+You can start learning how to use it with [Getting Started With Tkined], understand the [Licensing], or read about the [Contributors]
+
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Discussion for Home page

Mark Newnham — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:16:06 -0000

Getting the software going again after 20 years

This was the software I used on a day-to-day basis for managing my corporate network back in 1995. It was the first open source project I contributed to, writing the user guide [[Getting started with Tkined]] and now I need a simple, easy to manage visual network management tool again. It only took about 4 hours of digging around the internet to get to this point where I can start testing the underlying network management tools. The greatest feature of this software is the ability to do pretty sophisticated device monitoring using tools like SNMP with ease.

Platform

Debian 7.8 64 Bit Linux running in an Oracle Virtualbox VM. There was a version of the software that ran under Windows but the last known platform I remember it running on was NT Workstation 4.0

Additional Software

ActiveState ActiveTcl 8.6.

The software is written in a language called Tcl/Tk, which is pretty obscure these days. Fortunately ActiveState is the maintainer of the package, and it installs and runs flawlessly on Debian.

X11 Libraries

apt-get install libX11-dev

The software needs to be built from source, so you need to be comfortable with configure and make. The full set of development tools, gcc make etc needs to be installed. after downloading the source tree, go to the unix directory and run:

./configure

make

make install

Installation Notes

Right now, the installation doesn't complete cleanly, because of some path issues.

ln -s /opt/Activestate-8.6/lib/libtcl8.6.so /lib/libtcl8.6.so

ln -s /opt/Activestate-8.6/lib/libtk8.6.so /lib/libtk8.6.so

cp -r /usr/local/lib/scotty* /opt/Activestate-8.6/lib

cp -r /usr/local/lib/tnm* /opt/Activestate-8.6/lib

cp -r /usr/local/lib/tkined* /opt/Activestate-8.6/lib

added export TCLLIBPATH=/opt/Activestate-8.6/lib to .bashrc

made sure the 'scotty' could be found in the path when executed as root

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Mark Newnham — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:30:09 -0000

Welcome to your wiki!

This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].

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