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12 most recommended network monitoriBy Selena Frye, TechRepu blic on Septem ber 2, 2010

Here's a collection of

performance and

monitoring tools fornetworks of every size

and to fit every

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Most organizations, from the smallest office to the largest enterprises rely on so

monitoring tools to help them analyze performance issues, alert them to threats,

on the health of the network environment. ZDNet Asia sister site TechRepublic co

kicked the tires on many of them and have received feedback from members on

Here is a round up of some of the most used and recommended.

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PRTG Dashb oard v iew

PRTG Network Monitor monitors system availability using a variety of methods fr

through SNMP and WMI protocols to specific tasks such as HTTP, DNS, and Remo

availability using various sensors. Using specific sensors for specific machines, an

monitor service availability--including Exchange and SQL--and be notified instant

PRTG comes with some bandwidth monitoring sensors, so you can ensure that m

do DoS, phone home, and other overload activities are not operating on your n

PRTG supports all Windows versions, XP/2003 or later.




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Colaso f t packe t g raph ing

Colasoft software includes a Diagnosis console that lists events separated by OSI layers and enables

sorting by severity, source address or event type to help speed recovery. A special Matrix view is

available, too, that depicts connections at-a-glance, further enhancing diagnosis.

Supported operating systems are Windows-only: Windows XP (32- and 64-bit versions), Windows

Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit versions), Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit versions), Windows 2008 (32-

and 64-bit versions) and Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit versions).

Update: Capsa 7.2.1 no longer supports Windows 2000.




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I n t e r m a p p e r c o n t r o l c e n t er

InterMapper monitors system availability using a variety of methods from simple ping through SNMP

protocols, to specific tasks such as HTTP, DHCP, DNS, and LDAP availability using customizable

probes. Using specific probes for specific machines, an administrator can monitor service availability

and be notified instantly of problems.

Supported operating systems include: Windows 2008/Vista/XP/2003/2000, MacOS X 10.4, Solaris,

RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD.

Log i cMon i t o r r esponse t i me m on i t o r g raph

LogicMonitor allows you to add an agent to a machine and have it monitored from your own,

personalized dashboard that can be reached from anywhere using a web browser. It will keep you

apprised of the status of your network, network equipment, cloud, databases, applications, power

infrastructure, and more.




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Mi c roso f t Ne t w o rk Mon i t o r de t a i l page

The Microsoft Network Monitor is a free tool for Windows PCs that allows you to see each and every

networking packet that arrives at or is sent from the PC. It has robust filtering options and can give

you excellent insight into the functionality of your applications.

It has powerful filtering capabilities and an "experts" feature allows developers to write advanced

processing functionality to extend the application beyond the packet filters.

Mun i n t r a f f i c r epo r t




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Munin is an open source application that enables the administrator to monitor and collect data for

networks, PCs, SANS, and even applications. With a very robust plugin framework (and plenty of

available plugins), Munin is one of the most flexible network resource monitoring systems available.

Munin is available for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems including: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,

Solaris, AIX, OS X / Darwin supported in trunk, and HP-UX.

Nagios de ta i l s on a l l hos ts

Nagios is a cost effective, flexible tool that also happens to be open source. Nagios is relevant for any

sized network. From small and midsize business to enterprise, it can handle just about anything you

have. But while it's simple to install, making it work for you can take some time and tweaking. There

are configuration files to edit, plugins to add, and more. It's stand-out features are scalability, an

easy-to-navigate web interface, lots of plugins, alert system, event handlers, and reports.




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Or ion NPM ind iv id ua l host de ta i l s

Orion Network Performance Monitor is the ticket for large, complex network environments. Stand-out

features are the Web interface, an integrated Wireless Poller to monitor wireless devices, and easily

customizable reports.




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Snor t I DS and pe r f o rm ance m on i t o r

Snort is a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which can view and analyze packets on a

network to determine whether or not a system is being attacked by remote. Most Linux distributions

come with Snort; it can write its collected information to a variety of different sources for later

analysis, be it flat files or a database such as PostgreSQL or MySQL. As well, Snort can be used as a

simple packet logger, sniffer, or a full-blown NIDS.




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Sp l u n k t h r o u g h p u t g r a p h

Splunk allows you to index, search, alert, and report on both live and archived IT data. Splunk is a

modular Web-based tool that allows you to add or subtract apps to match your needs. There are both

free and enterprise versions available for Windows, Linux, Mac, AIX, Solaris, and BSD.

Splunk collects data from multiple sources on your network and analyzes that data in one,

centralized, Web-based location.




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W i r e sh a r k m a i n w i n d o w

Wireshark solves the problem of being able to analyze network traffic on any size network. Wireshark

does this with the power often found in more costly tools, but for free. So any IT department in need

of a powerful network analyzer, but without the budget to purchase such power, can turn to

Wireshark and miss nary a feature.?Some standout features are: data can be viewed live or from

previously captured files, live data can be captured from numerous network interfaces and types,

decryption is supported, and reports can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text.

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Z enoss pe r f o rm ance g raphs

Zenoss is quite similar to Nagios, but reduces a lot of the configuration complexity. The unfortunate

thing is that the Web interface can be quite intimidating, despite it dispensing with a lot of complexity

in how monitored hosts are configured. Zenoss is available for a number of operating systems. You

can install packages built for most flavours of Linux and Mac OS X, or build it from source on any

other system where there are no packages pre-built. Also available are virtual appliances for VMware.

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