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Network Monitoring Software
There are several different aspects concerning the subject network monitoring. Please find a general outline below. You can read more about the benefits of network monitoring.
Large enterprises, small and medium sized companies as well as some private persons need an IT network for their daily work to process and store lots of data. Therefore they run servers, routers, databases etc... In most of the cases many persons have access to these servers and to the computers this network. Furthermore there is a huge file transfer. Since these data is vital for the daily business, is is necessary to protect the network from damages caused by faults and system errors and to assure, that users and customers can access information speedy and seamless.
The issues of network monitoring can be devided in availability monitoring, usage and activity monitoring.
Availability Monitoring
Availability monitoring software detects failures, slow systems or routers and informs the administrator automatically. Another subject of network monitoring software is checking the availability of servers and websites. These notifications about failing systems detected can be proceeded via e-mail or other ways, such as network broadcast, text log or SMS.
Alerting the administrator in case of system errors detected is one of the most important functions, the network monitoring software has.
IPCheck Server Monitor monitors up and downtimes of your systems and you can immediately detect faults if you notice that your system is getting slower. From IPCheck Server Monitor you can get a report about the calculation of up and downtimes, which helps you to control Service Level Agreements (SLAs), too. Furthermore IPCheck Server Monitor allows you to set up sensors for monitoring several services of network devices such as the server or the router. That way you can check the time the server needs for response.
Usage And Activity Monitoring
To assure network as well as server performance it is important to know the status of network bandwidth usage, disk usage CPU usage etc. Once you found a performance issue caused by high usage it is good to know, which applications and servers/users eat 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 or packet sniffing or NetFlow (in Cisco enabled networks).
PRTG Traffic Grapher allows administrators to discern actual bandwidth usage and records teh data. The tool creates an activity diagram that shows all network usage parameters. Additionally the PRTG Traffic Grapher stores all data collected for later analyses.
Altogether Network Monitoring Software offers comprehensive performance and fault management around networks and servers. It monitors networks for technical problems caused by overloaded servers, by crashed connections or by the users. Network Monitoring Software reports the working time of the network users, the capacity and availability of the server and the duration of uploads and downloads. While uptime monitoring the Network Monitoring Software checks the uptime performance as well as the server availability and response time. The statistics, graphics and tables the Network Monitoring Software creates show all faults of the system are helpful for the administrator to be corrective.