Still not sure where to start? Take a look at the Active Defense Harbinger Distribution (ADHD) project, which is part of the Samurai family of Linux-based LiveCD distributions. ADHD provides a bootable ISO that contains the two previously mentioned tools and many others that are specifically focused on providing early warning detection of attacker activity. Some of those are more geared toward alerting, because, technically, no computers should be communicating with the honeypot so all traffic has the potential to be considered malicious.

via Tech Insight: Time To Set Up That Honeypot — Dark Reading.