table align=left cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=42 height=40 style=margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;trtdimg class=teaser-image-odd src=http://images.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/ubuntu.gif width=39 height=40 alt= //td/tr/tablepbNetwork Monitoring Appliance/b/ppMy ambition was to implement a small (better tiny) appliance formonitoring network health and network resources* short and longtimetrends* running under VMware Server or VMware ESX. So I had an eye uponall components which are implemented on the system* to be asleightweight as possible. This was also the reason why no SQL DBMSbased software was used. The appliance is based on Ubuntu Jeos LTS (8.04.3 at the time ofthis writing). Almost all used components are from the relatedrepositories. This tutorial shows how the appliance was implemented./p