Network Monitoring Software

Considering the case of a network administrator our server should have maximum uptime.A network monitoring software keeps track of all our activities all day long .Naturally, almost all administrators will develop a tendency to check that ‘everything is okay’ when they are away. pinging the server to see if it is awake, or logging on to the company Intranet just to see if IIS is still running, is something most of us have done at some time or other. But what will they do if they cant do it.Here comes the role of Network Monitoring software which will do all this for you.Here are a few of them to check out.

FREEping – Server Pinging
This is a utility that will ping all the servers and notifies you if something does not come right.It generates popup for all the jobs it does.It pings the server after a definite time interval.

Look@LAN
Auto-Detect of Network Settings and Scanning of one or more Scan-Ranges
Complete Management of Network Profiles every time.
World’s Faster Node Discovery Scan ie too fast.
Automatic and Manual Network Configuration and more .Take time to look at this one .Truly worth research.

Servers Alive

Servers Alive is an end-to-end network monitor program. Among the many checks it can do: it can monitor any Winsock service, ping a host, check if an NT service/process is running, check the available disk space on a server, retrieve a URL, check your database engine, and much more.

Sysinternals FileMon for Linux and Windows
This one lets you see all file system activity in real-time. Versions exist for all versions of WinNT/2K, Windows 9x/Me, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, and Linux.It is made by Sysinternals.

Sysinternals PortMon Monitor serial and parallel port activity with this advanced monitoring tool. It knows about all standard serial and parallel IOCTLs and even shows you a portion of the data being sent and received. Version 3.x has powerful new UI enhancements and advanced filtering capabilities.It is really an amazing stuff to checkout .

Sysinternals TDIMon
See TCP and UDP activity in real-time with this advanced network API monitoring tool.

Sysinternals TokenMon
Watch security-related activity, including logon, logoff, privilege usage, and impersonation with this monitoring tool. Full source code included.

Sysinternals WinObj
The ultimate Object Manager namespace viewer is here. Version 2.0 has significant UI enhancements, knows about more object types, and is integrated with NT’s native security editors.It is available only for windows servers.