Great alternatives to MRTG - PRTG Traffic Grapher and PRTG Network Monitor
MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) is a tool that monitors traffic on a network connection. Although useful, MRTG has its limitations. Many of its users have now discovered PRTG Traffic Grapher and PRTG Network Monitor- a innovative and user-friendly network and bandwidth monitoring tools.
Often described as MRTG for Windows, PRTG Traffic Grapher and PRTG Network Monitor make network monitoring easy. They work with (almost) all SNMP enabled devices, such as managed switches, routers and firewalls. And they can monitor services and systems using various other protocols like WMI, SMTP, HTTP etc. They are remarkably easy to install on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. Monitoring is both simple and intuitive, and can be done via a web based front end. Data retrieval and configuration is easy, and the fully skinnable web interface makes it easy to customize reports to suit your business.