Network monitoring / management

FEATURED: ServersCheck Monitoring Software Listing updated: March 25, 2009

ServersCheck Monitoring is a tool for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability. It has 60+ different types of checks to monitor almost anything running in your network. You can monitor devices, using any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc) and also perform database checks (ODBC, Oracle, MySQL), trap SNMP values (disk space, free memory, CPU usage, etc), verify content served from a web server and check NT services and process availability. If problems are detected, ServersCheck will alert you via SMS, e-mail, MSN and more. You can even send SMS messages back to the software. Monitoring Software runs as a local service and is administrated via a browser based interface. Additional features include alerts and graph output for long-term statistics tracking. The software can be extended with environmental sensors (temperature, humidity, power failure and water). This enables you to monitor your systems both from the inside and the outside.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.61 [84 votes] - Vote
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Spiceworks: 100% Free Network Monitoring Solution Listing updated: March 17, 2010

Download completely free network monitoring software for IT pros in small to medium businesses. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks provides access to the entire software suite whether you're a one-person operation or you manage 1,000 network devices. And it's free forever - including live support and all product upgrades! In addition to a state-of-the-art network monitoring and management solution, Spiceworks software also offers free access to: a full-featured help desk, troubleshooting tools, asset management software, power management tools, and an online community of IT pros like you to answer questions, share tips, and solve IT problems. Download today - and share with your peers!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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Engineer’s Toolset Listing updated: November 12, 2009

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset includes a collection of powerful network management tools, all of which can be easily accessed through an innovative Workspace Studio to quickly resolve issues right from your desktop. With the Workspace Studio, you can organize your tools to tackle troubleshooting challenges and then recall that workspace with a click when you need it – saving valuable set-up time. And shared credential management saves even more time as you switch easily between the tools you need without re-entering credentials.

Take control of your day and your network with powerful, timesaving features, including: Monitor and alert in real time on network availability and health with tools including Real-Time Interface Monitor, SNMP Real-Time Graph, and Advanced CPU Load. Perform robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex network issues with tools such as Ping Sweep, DNS Analyzer, and Trace Route. Deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator. Manage Cisco devices with specialized tools including Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, Config Downloader, and Config Compare.
  • Users' Rating: 4.65 [20 votes] - Vote
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ManageEngine WiFi Manager Listing updated: January 6, 2005

ManageEngine WiFi Manager is an integrated wireless security and management solution, offering multi-vendor access point configuration, firmware upgrade, rogue detection, combined wired and wireless network monitoring, and reporting capabilities for enterprise-grade wireless networks. With integrated hardware sensors for analyzing 802.11 packets, the solution protects WLANs from security threats such as intrusions, denial-of-service attacks, and vulnerabilities. It automatically discovers all wireless and wired assets in the distributed network and enables IT to control them from a single console.
  • Users' Rating: 4.57 [51 votes] - Vote
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DirectoryAnalyzer Listing updated: September 16, 2005

DirectoryAnalyzer proactively monitors, diagnoses and troubleshoots Active Directory and DNS. With DirectoryAnalyzer, you’re instantly notified via e-mail the moment a problem arises. Click on the alert and you’re presented with a graphical representation of the situation and guided through the steps required to rectify the issue. When used with ChangeAuditor, your administrators can identify the Who What, When, Where and Why information about the change that may have initiated the problem.
  • Users' Rating: 4.56 [55 votes] - Vote
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Orion Network Performance Monitor Listing updated: July 9, 2009

Orion NPM enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. Out-of-the-box, it offers network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information network engineers need. And Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning you will spend more time actually managing networks, not supporting Orion NPM.

Orion NPM provides comprehensive performance, fault management and network availability tools to ensure that your network is always running at peak performance. Via a cutting-edge web interface, Orion NPM gives you a unified view into the performance of thousands of nodes and interfaces on your network. From a single web page, you can monitor performance metrics from any SNMP-enabled device, including routers, switches, firewalls and servers. Commonly monitored metrics include bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards and quality of service.
  • Users' Rating: 4.55 [22 votes] - Vote
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PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher Listing updated: April 23, 2007

PRTG Traffic Grapher is a Windows application for monitoring and classifying bandwidth usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. PRTG is mainly used for bandwidth usage monitoring, but may also be used to monitor many other aspects of a network such as memory and CPU utilization. With PRTG Traffic Grapher the user receives bandwidth and network usage data that helps to optimize the efficiency of the network.

Understanding bandwidth and resource consumption is the key to better network management: Avoid bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks; Find out what applications or what servers use up your bandwidth; Deliver better quality of service to your users by being proactive; Reduce costs by buying bandwidth and hardware according to actual load. The Freeware Edition of PRTG Traffic Grapher is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded for free. PRTG Traffic Grapher is designed to run on a Windows machine in your network for 24 hours every day, and constantly records the network usage parameters. The recorded data is stored in an internal database for later reference. Using a Windows interface you can configure the monitored sensors as well as create usage reports. For remote access PRTG Traffic Grapher comes with a built-in web server to provide access to graphs and tables. All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported: SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol is the basic method of gathering bandwidth and network usage data. It can be used to monitor bandwidth usage of routers and switches port-by-port as well as device readings like memory, CPU load etc.
  • Users' Rating: 4.52 [50 votes] - Vote
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Policy Central Pro Listing updated: December 17, 2004

Policy Central Pro helps eliminate computer abuses by promoting your organisation's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) while monitoring for violations.

It puts the responsibility back into the hands of the computer user, and reports misbehaviour directly to the administrator! Screen captures of violations are stored in a secure database with user info, date, time, application and violation stamp.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [22 votes] - Vote
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NetStat Agent Listing updated: October 22, 2004

A tool for diagnosing network and monitoring network connections. Displays all your computer's inbound and outbound connections and lists all open ports, much like the standard Windows netstat command-line utility, but in graphical interface, with protocol statistics, network properties of the local computer. Helps to detect host's activity. It includes the following tools: Netstat displays list of network connections, including the information on open TCP and UDP ports, IP address, and connection states. Also it displays protocol statistics; Ping helps to detect computer's or host's activity; Tracer allows you to know what hops are being used to route a packet of data from your computer to the end point; Route retrieves the interface–to–IP address mapping table and the IP routing table.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [10 votes] - Vote
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Network Monitor Listing updated: July 2, 2002

Network Monitor runs permanently to monitor the machines on your network, for faults and changes. The Network Monitor can monitor the machines that you have previously audited, using the Network Auditor. It compares the hardware and software that it finds on these machines against what you have recorded in your Inventory and alerts you of changes.

Network Monitor will gather information on remote machines using the Remote Registry service, which is part of the Windows operating system. It will then compare this against the information that you have recorded in your inventory databases from the last time that the machine was audited, and alert you of any changes.

Alerts can be sent either directly to your e-mail (using any SMTP server) or, using PageGate, to any alphanumeric pagers, numeric pagers, cell phones, PIMs, billboards or pcmcia pager cards.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [2 votes] - Vote
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