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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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: 4.58 [48 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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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: 4.53 [47 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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Lantern Network Manager Listing updated: January 26, 2005

Lantern is a visual network manager that allows you to monitor the status of connected nodes, communicate with users, access remote file systems and automatically backup files to a central location. It uses a client/server system that displays a graphical icon for each node in the Manager interface. You can right-click to access the machine, move or copy files or send a message to the current user. In addition, you can view disk space utilization and memory usage on the remote machine(s), as well as operating system, IP address and Mac address information, and also perform remote shutdowns. Lantern also includes an integrated VNC viewer/server to remotely control a workstation.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [8 votes] - Vote
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Advanced Host Monitor Listing updated: October 7, 2002

HostMonitor is a system management tool that continuously monitors servers availability and performance. It can monitor any TCP service, ping a host, retrieve an URL, check the available disk space, check integrity of your files and web site, test your SQL server, and much more. It checks network servers at regular intervals and takes a pre-defined actions if a device does not respond. It can provide a visual and sound warning, send an E-mail message to a mailbox, pager or mobile phone, execute external program and more. HostMonitor can generate test result log files and reports. HostMonitor provides different log file detail levels and log file formats and can be configured to suit your needs.
  • Users' Rating: 4.49 [80 votes] - Vote
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ManageEngine OpManager Listing updated: September 26, 2005

ManageEngine OpManager is a combined Network, System and Application monitoring software. OpManager offers a live view of Routers, Switches, Servers, Firewalls, Wireless Access Points, UPSs & Printers using special maps which show the status of interfaces / ports and services. A rich set of graphs and reports for Interface utilization, CPU, memory and disk utilization are available out-of-the-box. OpManager enables multi-vendor network monitoring with out-of-the-box support for the most popular devices. With it’s fault management and performance management functionality, OpManager is an ideal network monitoring tool for managing today’s complex networks. The Small Network 20 Node Edition is available Free of cost.
  • Users' Rating: 4.48 [129 votes] - Vote
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ServiceKeeper Listing updated: September 13, 2004

ServiceKeeper controls the status of your network's devices, services and resources: Windows Services Status (running, pending, etc.), TCP/IP Services (HTTP, SMTP, FTP, TELNET, PING, etc - It allows you to check regularly the availability of your network ports and to monitor Internet Services and multiple web sites from one server), File system (file sizes, file count, free disk space), Event Log filtering (Watches for specific events in the event log), Process memory and CPU usage, Windows system Counters, Custom scripts (Write your custom VBScript, includes access to ServiceKeeper internal variables) It also recovers failing critical applications using a variety of methods: Restart Services, Kill Service processes (No need to reboot), Start service on a different server (redundancy), Reboot servern Run custom programs/scripts or batch files, Clean up files (move, delete, copy etc.)Notifies downtime via: Email (SMTP), pager, SMS, Windows messaging (Net Send), Phone call notification using computer-generated speech, HTML and Event Log Users have the possibility to notify all group members and combine multiple notification tools. ServiceKeeper also produces Statistic Reports on overall availability, downtime detection and recoveries. Services scheduling: Stops services at night during backups, Restricts server access at specific times, Restarts services every night to clean up resources (memory, handles etc.)
  • Users' Rating: 4.47 [19 votes] - Vote
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