Network monitoring / management

FEATURED: ServersCheck Monitoring Software Listing updated: April 30, 2008

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: 4.58 [67 votes] - Vote
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Sentra Listing updated: January 14, 2008

Sentra automatically monitors your Windows environment 24x7 and provides the alerting, querying and reporting tools to maintain the highest levels of availability and performance for the business-critical services provided by your IT infrastructure. Features include: Supports Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT; Proactive Event Management; Alert Escalation; Global Alerts View; Event Log Monitoring; Reporting and Management Information and more.
  • Users' Rating: 4 [17 votes] - Vote
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ipMonitor Listing updated: January 14, 2008

ipMonitor delivers availability monitoring so that you always know what’s happening with your applications, servers, and network devices. With a built-in database and Web server, you don’t need to install anything but ipMonitor.

ipMonitor simplifies network management by: Discovering IP-based network devices and automatically recommending monitoring settings for each device; Performing monitoring of Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server, SMTP, and more; Monitoring end-user experience with synthetic transactions; and more...
  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [18 votes] - Vote
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GFI EndPointSecurity Listing updated: November 13, 2007

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: 4 [21 votes] - Vote
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: November 13, 2007

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 [148 votes] - Vote
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Account Lockout Examiner Listing updated: October 8, 2007

Quickly identifies account lockout reason without doing routine work: detects, diagnoses and resolves Active Directory user account lockouts in real time cutting down administrative costs associated with a manual resolution of account lockouts.
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Service Hawk Listing updated: September 5, 2007

Service Hawk can periodically restart services on a user-defined schedule regardless of their state, ensuring that your services are running smoothly and stay operational. Often a service reports that it is "running" but is in a hung or frozen state. Scheduling an automatic restart is the solution! Tell Service Hawk which services you want to monitor and how frequently and the rest is done for you! Service Hawk will monitor your services and if they happen to go down, Service Hawk will automatically restart them for you. If you choose, you will immediately be notified through either email, alertbox notification, or sound alert so you will be aware of the service failure. Service Hawk also logs the service failure to a log file for you to keep a running history.
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ipMonitor Listing updated: September 5, 2007

ipMonitor Monitors, Alerts and Recovers your critical applications and infrastructure equipment. Use it to watch over your Windows, Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Site and Transaction Servers, as well as your Cisco routers, network switches, back-up power protection systems and environmental monitors. If a problem occurs, you’ll be alerted by digital phone, email, pager, or network broadcast. Best of all, ipMonitor is on the job 24/7/365.
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Colasoft Capsa - Expert Packet Sniffer Listing updated: April 23, 2007

Expert packet sniffer designed for packet decoding and network diagnosis, Colasoft Capsa monitors the network traffic transmitted over a local host and a local network, helping network administrators troubleshoot network problems. With the ability of real time packet capture and accurate data analysis, Colasoft Capsa makes your network transparent before you, letting you fix any network trouble.
  • Users' Rating: 3.67 [6 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: 4.53 [43 votes] - Vote
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