Network Monitoring
Network Monitoring Helps You to Optimize Your Network Infrastructure
Network Monitoring is essential for companies of any size and branch. With uptime monitoring you can ensure that your computer systems are running smoothly and that you will be notified when outages occur. A network monitoring tool is also important to increase the efficiency of your network by understanding bandwidth and resource consumption through usage monitoring and bandwidth management.
PRTG Network Monitor covers both, uptime and usage monitoring! Read more about PRTG!
Network uptime monitoring offers the following benefits:
- Increased profits: no losses caused by undetected system failures
- Improved customer satisfaction by providing more reliable systems
- Peace of mind: As long as you do not hear from the monitoring tool you know everything is running perfectly
A software for usage and activity monitoring is the key to:
- Avoiding bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks
- Finding out what applications or what servers are using up your bandwidth
- Immediately identifying sudden spikes caused by malicious codes
- Reducing costs by buying bandwidth and hardware according to actual load
Free valuable time to take care of other important business!
What is PRTG? An Introduction.
This video shows you how PRTG Network Monitor will help you to improve network performance and avoid network issues.
Requirements For a Network Monitoring Solution
A good network management software should be easy to instal and usage should be intuitive, so that there is no need for external consultancy and training. Further necessary requirements are:
- Remote Management via web browser, PocketPC, or Windows client
- Notifications on outages by email, ICQ, pager/SMS, and more
- Comprehensive sensor type selection
- Multiple location monitoring
- All common methods for network usage data acquisition (SNMP, Packet Sniffing, NetFlow for monitoring Cisco devices) ought to be supported
PRTG Network Monitor is the tool for availability, usage and activity monitoring, covering the entire scope from pure website monitoring to database performance monitoring. The freeware or trial of PRTG Network Monitor can quickly be downloaded and easily be set up and configured.
Software Versus Service
There are two options for a network monitoring solution. You can purchase and set up a network monitoring software such as PRTG Network Monitor by your own, or you can benefit from network monitoring services provided by an ASP.
Which option (software or service) is the right one for you depends on various factors. You can read more about the on-demand service for network monitoring.
