Welcome to the JxNAP website, the following short description summarises what JxNAP is all about.

Please note that this project is no longer activly developed, I have started a new project jWatchDog. jWatchDog was started with some different goals and to make a cleaner implimentation using the experiance gained writing JxNAP. I am hoping to get a new website up and running soon for jWatchDog.

Intrusively monitoring the activity on a network can add extremely large load to a server, for example monitoring the web sites that users on a LAN visit without having the overhead of running a transparent proxy server. Another example would be to monitor the conversations that people on a LAN are having with the outside world via some form of instant messaging application (i.e. MSN Messenger). Both of these processes would traditionally require a proxy server to intercept the content of messages/pages between the source and the destination, adding extra overhead to systems that could be utilised else where in the organisation. By monitoring this content in a passive fashion it is possible to monitor systems without touching or reconfiguring them.