Network Fault Management

Network fault management aims at detecting and avoiding network problems, and thus at increasing a network's availability, keeping downtimes to a minimum, and improving network performance. To this end, effective network fault management includes the collection of network data in real time, analysis and alerting, as well as troubleshooting.

PRTG Network Monitor: the Comprehensive Network Fault Management Solution

PRTG Network Monitor makes network fault management easy: the network monitoring solution tracks the availability and performance of network devices, traces network traffic in real time, and alerts you should anything in your network require your attention. This way, the network administrator software helps you to be always one step ahead of network users. Instead of having to react upon angry phone calls or emails, PRTG gives you the opportunity to approach network troubleshooting in a much more proactive manner. Thus, the Windows monitor helps you not only to keep downtime to a minimum, but also to troubleshoot many network issues before they result in downtimes. Moreover, PRTG's flexible alerting system allows you to automate several network fault management areas. The software can, for example, restart a service, or start an external application.

What Does PRTG Monitor?

Thanks to more than 130 different sensor types, PRTG is a complete network management application. It uses advanced PING sensors to track the availability of servers, routers, and other network devices, instantly alerting you if one of your critical devices cannot be reached. Moreover, the software monitors Windows memory usage, CPU load, hard disk health, free disk space, etc. Network traffic and bandwidth consumption are tracked using SNMP, packet sniffing, and NetFlow. These technologies allow for IP and port monitoring, showing you which IP addresses or applications are responsible for most of the bandwidth usage, and thus help you to predict and avoid bandwidth congestion. In addition, PRTG also analyzes syslog messages and SNMP Traps. This way, the network monitoring solution helps you to pull together your entire network fault management to one central installation.

PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG is available in two editions. For basic network fault management, the free network software 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.