How can i design a network monitoring software in windows or Linux?

The software has to be like a client/server model. The server should be able to find out the details of the network activities of the clients connected and authenticate and remove users from the network. I am familiar with C/C++, Java %26amp; Lisp. I really dont know where to begin as this is the first time I have to do something like this. Also how can I use sockets or SNMP to achieve the same? Please help.








I am an engineering student from India and this is our first year mini project.

How can i design a network monitoring software in windows or Linux?
Actually, since Nagios is an open-source project, you can download the source code and see how it works. That should give you a good starting point.





http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/





There are several other such programs in the same category:





http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove...





I am sure that in addition to downloading the code, if you were to ask polite questions of the developers, as you have here, they would be very happy to assist you.





Or, better yet, you could offer to work on one of these Open Source projects as your mini project. Check with your professor.
Reply:Try using nagios everyone uses it and it already built for you. besides it also free. No need to reinvent the wheel.





You can find it at nagios.org