Monitor Network Devices

Monitoring network devices is an important part of network management: a good network monitoring software such as PRTG Network Monitor constantly checks the availability of all network devices and immediately notifies the administrator if a system fails - usually through email or SMS.

The simplest way to make sure your network devices are running is to use PING tests at specified intervals. PRTG Network Monitor offers advanced PING sensors as well as many other sensors to monitor uptime so that websites, routers, switches, servers, network printers, workstations and applications can constantly be checked.

Server Monitoring

Network server monitoring is an important instrument to assure performance and availability of your servers and your entire network. PRTG uses WMI, SNMP, VBEM and SSH monitoring to obtain in-depth monitoring data, such as uptime, memory usage, free disk space, active processes and so on. Thanks to a variety of special sensor types, PRTG can also monitor virtual servers. It is thus a powerful hyper-V and ESX server monitor.

Database Server Monitoring

Electronic businesses rely on information stored in databases. Thus, it is paramount that database servers are constantly accessibly. This makes it important for system administrators monitor their database servers. PRTG contains a variety of sensors, which make monitoring databases easy. For example, the software offers various specialized sensors that allow you to monitor SQL servers .

Router Monitoring

In addition to check whether a router is available, PRTG provides you with detailed data about your network's bandwidth usage: by checking all connections into the router and keeping track of which applications or users consume most bandwidth you can identify bottlenecks in the network and allocate resources accordingly.

Switch Monitoring

Monitoring your switches helps you to understand what or who is using your bandwidth. PRTG Network Monitor uses SNMP, packet sniffing, and NetFlow / sFlow for advanced switch monitoring.

PRTG Network Monitor

Paessler's graphical network monitoring tool PRTG is available in two editions. The ESX Monitor freeware 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.