Ethernet Monitor
Monitoring Your Ethernet with PRTG
PRTG Network Monitor is an Ethernet Monitor that helps you stay on top of everything that happens in your company network. Ethernet monitoring includes not only checking for outages of network devices but also monitoring network performance and usage of network resources.
PRTG is a network and server monitor that can automatically detect and respond to threats and performance issues in real time, as well as help prevent possible issues in the future. And its functionality includes availability and error monitoring, making sure that all your Ethernet devices are up and running and tracking network activity.
Examples of uses of the Ethernet Monitor
- Network bandwidth monitor: you can see in real time how much bandwidth is being used and identify bottlenecks
- Network server monitor: the Ethernet monitor controls if the server is up and running, the server's CPU load, temperature etc.
- VoIP monitor: measure packet los, jitter noise, etc.
- Web monitoring: check if your website is available
How does the Ethernet monitor check bandwidth usage?
PRTG uses SNMP, Packet Sniffing and NetFlow monitoring.
- SNMP monitor: SNMP network monitoring is one of the most commonly used technologies when it comes to network monitoring. It is easy to set up and requires only minimal bandwidth and CPU cycles.
- Packet Sniffing: Packet sniffing is another method employed by the Ethernet monitor: with its built-in IP packet sniffer PRTG can inspect all network data packets travelling in your Ethernet to calculate bandwidth traffic.
- NetFlow Monitoring: PRTG is Cisco certified and can be used as a Cisco performance monitor: the software supports the NetFlow protocol which supplies comprehensive monitoring data on Cisco devices.
As it is an advanced bandwidth calculator and NetFlow analyzer, PRTG also helps you to determine possible bandwidth bottlenecks that might affect Ethernet performance. The Ethernet performance Monitor shows you not only accumulated bandwidth consumption, but enables you to see network activity over a longer period of time. This way, you can determine Ethernet performance at peak times, when the load on your network might be much higher than average. And the flexible threshold monitoring tool allows you to configure alarms which will warn you when a threshold is reached or when you are coming close.
PRTG is More Than Bandwidth Monitoring
PRTG is an all in one network solution: it scans your network for devices in a given IP range and configures suitable sensor types based on device templates, so that you can monitor exchange or SQL Servers. It can also monitor file and folder changes, which will help you to keep on top of your applications' log files. And Windows monitoring allows you to check services and processes, because if an important service fails this can affect the performance of the whole network. The Ethernet monitor also allows mail server monitoring.
PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitoring Software is available in two editions. For basic, free Ethernet and event monitoring, the Freeware Edition may be downloaded and used for personal and commercial use completely free of charge. For more advanced needs, licenses for the Commercial Editions start at $400 / €300. A fully functional 30 day trial version can be downloaded here.