Network Monitoring Tool
Monitor your Network with PRTG
PRTG Helps You to Optimize Your Network Infrastructure
A Network monitoring tool is essential to ensure that your computer systems are running smoothly and that no outages occur. Network monitoring is also important to increase the efficiency of your network by knowing bandwidth and resource consumption. With over 150,000 active installations, PRTG Network Monitor is the powerful and widely-used network monitoring solution by Paessler.
PRTG Network Monitor offers the following benefits:
- Increased profits: no losses caused by undetected system failures.
- Reduced costs by buying bandwidth and hardware according to actual load.
- No server performance and bandwidth bottlenecks.
- Better quality of service through being proactive.
Requirements For a Network Monitoring Tool
A good network monitor should be easy to install 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 of 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, Xflow) ought to be supported.
Knowing What to Monitor
The mere implementation of a network monitor is not enough. The key to effective network monitoring is to ensure that the chosen tool has been configured to monitor what are essentially a network's vital signs: availability, speed and usage.
Monitoring network availability allows both internal and external parties to access the services, including websites and you can determine whether the mail servers and leased lines are working.
Monitoring network speed with bandwidth monitoring prevents your websites and network services from losing visitors or frustrate users due to slow-loading pages, files or images.
Finally, usage monitoring enables you to accurately assess CPU load and learn just what sort of work the servers are doing at times of different the day.
How to Set up the PRTG Network Monitoring Tool
With the various infrastructure options in use today it can sometimes be difficult to decide which monitoring technology is right to solve your problem. The autodiscovery of our free bandwidth meter makes the setup quick and easy. With its preconfigured device templates, it selects the appropriate sensor settings for servers, applications and network devices. Of course you can configure PRTG manually, too.
Download the free 30 day trial network monitoring tool. The trial supports 5,000 sensors!
