NCARP (New COPS Analysis and Report Program)

First of all, read the file README.CARP, to have an idea of what the
original CARP does. CARP is included in the COPS package, and actually
NCARP won't be of much use for you if you aren't already using COPS to
monitor several systems.

A problem I found when using COPS and CARP to monitor the systems in
our network is that people (i.e. system administrators) don't always
have the time or the nerve to read and understand a COPS report and
act accordingly. So I thought that if we provide administrators with a
human-readable description of the problems, as well as some tips on
solving them, maybe they would pay more attention to the security in
their systems.

That's how NCARP was born. It generates the same information as CARP,
plus a spoken description of the problems found in each system, along
with suggestions for solving them. NCARP produces a global report on
its standard output, and the reports for each system analyzed are
stored in individual files. Optionally, according to a configuration
file, each report can be sent by email to somebody, presumably the
system administrator.

I'm working on a version of NCARP that allows to view the reports
using a graphical interface, but that isn't ready yet.

Send comments, questions, corrections, etc. to
diego@conga.dgsca.unam.mx

Best regards.

--
		Diego Zamboni