Monitoring Tools

PRTG Network Monitor / Traffic Grapher is the powerful network monitoring solution from Paessler AG .It enables you to log and monitor data flowing in and out of any SNMP enabled devices.It works with (almost) all SNMP enabled devices, such as managed switches, routers ,ups,and modems.It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. The most common usage is bandwidth usage monitoring, but you can also monitor many other aspects of your network like memory ,CPU utilizations and many more. It also provides a graphical interface with real-time charts and long term statistical reports covering daily and monthly periods. It also provides an option to generate interactive HTML reports. (more…)

MRTG is a powerful tool used for monitoring the traffic load on network links(router,switch…).In other word , it is a web based application used to monitor and graphically display traffic and usage or information of a device. It generates HTML pages containing PNG images with visual representation of the traffic. It can produce daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs. In addition to monitoring , it can also generate graphs based on the output of any application, for example, SIGNAL STRENGTH of a modem(Eb/No), Voltage level of UPS(input /output), memory usage etc. MRTG is written in perl and works on most of the operating systems ,including most Microsoft Windows versions,UNIX/Linux. (more…)