[A-1769] Alien 8.83, Collectd 4.10.2, Liboping 1.6.0 RRDtool 1.4.5

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats.

collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and provides mechanisms to monitor and store the values in a variety of ways.

liboping is a C library to generate ICMP echo requests, better known as "ping packets".

It is pretty easy to gather status information from all sorts of things, ranging from the temperature in your office to the number of octets which have passed through the FDDI interface of your router.