based on a recent email about bgp peer monitoring and others over the last few months, we thought this would be a good time to release a tool called rtrmon (router monitor) that we've been working on with vixie enterprises. please see: www.vix.com/rtrmon vixie enterprises provided the development expertise and based the design on the needs of genuity initially. it's fairly generic and extensible. currently it: - monitors bgp sessions and reports failures - monitors cpu usage and reports failures - monitors ospf neighbors - downloads, diffs, and archives cisco configs it's all cisco oriented as that's our primary platform. we'll start a mailing list soon for discussion (next week) but in the short interrim please send mail to myself or danny mcpherson (danny@genuity.net) for questions or problems. we'll have this hosted on our own web site(s) sometime next week as well. enjoy. -brett