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: 4.6 [81 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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Nsauditor Network Security Auditor Listing updated: August 10, 2009

Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a network security and vulnerability scanner that allows auditing and monitoring network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checking network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it and create a report of potential problems that were found. Nsauditor is a complete networking utilities package that includes more than 45 network tools and utilities for network auditing, scanning,network connections monitoring and more.
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YL Mail Man Listing updated: July 22, 2009

YL Mail Man is a flexible email addresses management and email delivering software, helping companies or shareware authors organize and manage large volumes of customer email addresses and contact them by email in simple steps. The multi-level categories feature allows the user organize and manage all kinds of contacts and addresses. The built-in HTML Email Editor allows the user create professional newsletter or product upgrade notifications email easily (10+ professional email templates available in the latest version). It also has an import&export function and a duplicate email addresses remover.

YL Mail Man is a stand-alone email addresses management and newsletter sending software. The only requirement is an Internet connection. The program has its own internal SMTP server and delivers email messages directly to their recipients by passing your ISP mail system.
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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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GFI EndPointSecurity Listing updated: May 28, 2009

GFI EndPointSecurity lets you control entry and exit of data via portable storage devices, allowing you to prevent users from taking confidential data or introducing viruses and trojans to your network. GFI EndPointSecurity allows you to actively manage user access to media players (including iPod and Creative Zen), USB sticks, memory cards and more.

GFI EndPointSecurity allows administrators to actively manage user access to Media players, USB sticks, memory cards, CDs, floppies & other storage devices. The solution also allows you to manage access to the following devices: PDAs, Blackberries, mobile phones (and similar communication devices), network cards and laptops.

Define which users can use removable media centrally from Active Directory - simply by making them a member of pre-defined groups.

Regain control of your network with GFI EndPointSecurity! A free, fully functional, 30-day trial is available for download on our website.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.78 [27 votes] - Vote
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Internet Access Monitor for MS Proxy Server Listing updated: April 24, 2009

Internet Access Monitor is a comprehensive Internet use monitoring and reporting utility for corporate networks. The program takes advantage of the fact that most corporations provide Internet access through proxy servers, like MS ISA Server, WinGate, WinRoute, MS Proxy, WinProxy, EServ, Squid, Proxy Plus and others. Each time any user accesses any website, downloads files or images, these actions are logged. Internet Access Monitor processes these log files to offer system administrators wealth of report building options.

The program can build reports for individual users, showing the list of websites he or she visited, along with a detailed break down of internet activity. The program can also create comprehensive reports with analysis of overall bandwidth consumption, building easy to comprehend visual charts that suggest the areas where wasteful bandwidth consumption may be eliminated.
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: April 8, 2009

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors the network & servers for failures. It allows you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your users (or managers) report them to you! Alerts can be sent by email, pager or SMS, for instant problem notification. Actions, such as rebooting a machine, restarting a service or running a script can be done automatically.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server. You can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

GFI Network Server Monitor tests the status of a service by actually logging on, testing and logging off, rather than deducing a service status from generated events (as other products do), which is the only real way to ensure server uptime!

GFI Network Server Monitor is easy to set up and use, and is competitively priced. A free, fully functional, 30-day trial is available for download on our website.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.24 [152 votes] - Vote
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Total Network Monitor Listing updated: March 27, 2009

Total Network Monitor allows continuous control over the performance of your network, separate computers, network and system utilities that make the essence of your network place and need to be thoroughly monitored. Total Network Monitor will alert you in case of failures and unpredictable errors before the situation becomes threatening to your work. It will create a detailed report on the type and time of the error or failure. You always have an opportunity to check any aspect of this or that utility, server or file system: HTTP, FTP, SMTP/POP3, IMAP, Event Log, Service State, Registry and many others.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.59 [17 votes] - Vote
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AppManager Suite Listing updated: March 27, 2009

NetIQ AppManager delivers the productivity and visibility enterprises demand of their systems management solutions while providing the critical foundation needed for safely adopting and exploiting next-generation technologies, such as: VMware ESX Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Oracle Grid Computing, and Cisco or Nortel IP Telephony (VoIP) solutions.

The NetIQ AppManager Suite delivers systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution. It is designed to manage a variety of components – from physical hardware to server applications to end-user response time.

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  • Users' Rating: 4 [2 votes] - Vote
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