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Network Monitoring Software
There are several different aspects to consider as regards network monitoring. Please find a general outline below. You can read more about the benefits of network monitoring software.
Large enterprises, as well as small and medium sized companies need an IT network for their daily work to process and store lots of data. Therefore they operate servers, routers, and databases within their network. Since this data is vital for daily business processes, it is necessary to rely on a network monitoring software to protect the network from damage caused by faults and system errors and to ensure that users and customers can access information quickly and seamlessly.
The separate capabilities of network monitoring software can be devided into availability monitoring, usage and activity monitoring.
Availability Monitoring
Network monitoring software detects failures, system or router slowdown and automatically informs the administrator about the status of these network devices. Another subject of network monitoring software is checking server and web site availability. These notifications about detected failing systems can be relayed via email, or such methods as network broadcast, text log or SMS.
Alerting the administrator in case of system errors is one of the most important functions of network monitoring software.
Network monitoring software such as PRTG Network Monitor monitors your systems' up and downtimes, allowing you to immediately detect faults or system slowdowns. You can create reports for up and downtime values, helping you to control Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Usage And Connectivity Monitoring
To assure network, as well as server performance, it is important to know the overall network bandwidth usage, disk usage, CPU load, etc. Once you find a performance issue caused by high usage levels, it is good to know which applications and servers/users are using up your bandwidth.
Usage and bandwidth monitoring based on multiple parameters, such as IP addresses, port numbers, protocols, etc. can be perfomed using either SNMP, packet sniffing or NetFlow (on certain Cisco devices).
PRTG Traffic Grapher and PRTG Network Monitor allow administrators to discern actual bandwidth usage and both record the monitoring data. The administrator can create an activity diagram that shows
all network usage parameters.
Altogether, network monitoring software offers comprehensive performance and fault
management for networks and servers. It monitors networks for
technical problems caused by overloaded servers, by crashed connections
or by the users. Network monitoring software helps to control network usage or server capacity and availability.
Free Network Monitoring Software
You can test our network monitoring software with the 30-Day-Trial-Edition. The Freeware Edition is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded at no cost. The Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors. Licenses for our network monitoring software PRTG Network Monitor start at $295 / €195.