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This program is a network monitor. It allows the user to input host IP addresses, it then pings these hosts every five minutes and displays their status via a built-in web server, on port 8000. It can optionally send email alerts and syslog messages if the hosts change status. So calling http://your_pc_address:8000 will display pages showing green, yellow or red host or group symbols. Each host is pinged four times every five minutes, and symbols are displayed as: green : if three or four pings are successfull yellow : if only one or two are successfull red : if all four fail As well as hosts, group symbols are displayed, and can be opened to show hosts, or sub-groups nested within. The operator can create groups, and sub-groups via the gui. It has been tested on Windows XP and Linux platforms. Windows users; to install, download and run skipolemonitor_0_4_py25_install.exe Linux users; a tar file of Python source code is available in the downloads section. To upgrade: export and save the network data somewhere safe, uninstall the old version, re-install the new version.