Network and System monitoring is
very important task for every System and Network Administrator. The purpose of
performance monitoring is to foresee the things for business continuity. Network
and System Performance Monitoring tool notifies Administrator via alarms and
alerts in time for slow and failing systems. It not also saves the time and
cost but reduce the frequency of problems occurred on daily basis. Monitoring
is proactive approach to optimize your network performance and availability and
tracking the trends. Administrators diagnose the reported issues in system and
stayed informed. All monitoring tools are collect data via SNMP and ICMP. Freeware
and Open Source are free and Administrators at small organizations can install
for their help but sometimes these are tricky to install and configure. However
big organizations purchase commercial software to continue their business. Here
is the list of these monitoring tools and software;
1.
PTRG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher)
Trial version will give you unlimited sensors and only 100
sensors forever after trial period. PRTG for windows server installations. You
can install it and use it via "remote console". It can track
bandwidth usage and availability of devices at network. It also checks
availability of websites.
2.
Zabbix
It is Linux based, highly customizable, scalable, free and really
great tool even customizable with your own scripts. It is used for heterogenous
environment. You can configure it to monitor services, windows and Linux
servers, and other resources as well. I think Zabbix is the best solution and
easier to setup, documentation available online.
3.
Open NMS
OpenNMS is
an open source Network management platform that uses SNMP for monitoring. It generates
email-based alerts for events like disk usage is too high or in case Server or
Network device is down.
4.
Nagios
Nagios is
free and open source application for monitoring Systems, Networks and
Infrastructure. With a lot of free plugins plus nagiosgraph. You can monitor
anything you like, use your own scripts with NSClient++.
5.
Spiceworks
Spiceworks
isn't opensource but free and it is agentless. Spiceworks works more for
inventorying but it has some limitations.
6.
Cacti
Cacti is any
open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool written in
PHP/MySQL with front end application, industry standard data logging tool RRtool
(Round Robin Database tool) engine to store data and generate graphs. It
collects periodical data through SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).
7.
CactiEZ
It is a
compact distro loaded with extra features such as Syslog and Netflow data
collection. Wheathermaps, reports, auto discovery and much more. It is
configurations is very easy and tool is totally free.
8.
Pandora FMS
It is
monitoring software for IT Infrastructure management including Network
Equipment, Windows, Linux Servers and virtual infrastructure. It has large
number of features which covers all the monitoring issues.
9.
SCOM (System Center Operations Manager)
System
Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a cross platform data center monitoring
system for operating systems and hypervisors. Using single interface, it shows
state, health and performance of computer systems. It works with MS Windows
Servers and Unix based hosts.
10. Solarwinds
solarwinds
is a suit of different monitoring tools few of them are freeware while rest are
commercial versions which you need to purchase. Over all it’s a good product.
11. Check_Mk
It is
monitoring system with comprehensive open source solution for monitoring of
operating systems, hardware, networks and processing centers.
12. Centreon
Another very
good tool helps IT teams to be more reactive and proactive. It simplifies
communication between IT and business.
13. Opsview
It is a
software for physical, virtual and cloud-based IT Infrastructure. Opsview
offers a free version which is limited to 25 monitored hosts. It is built with
Nagios core, Perl, Catalyst, ExtJS, MySQL, Net-SNMP and RRDtool.
14. Naemon
Naemon is an
open source computer System, Network, Infrastructure and Software Applications
monitoring. It alerts Administrators before the things go wrong.
15. OSSIM
AlienVault
offers you complete network security monitoring for your cloud, on-premises and
hybrid environment.
16. EventSentry
EventSentry
is an easy to use flexible and affordable a real time log, system and network
monitoring. It monitors log files as well as availability of all system
components.
17. LibreNMS
It is a
great tool, it does a lot and is very customization. It has an iso image you
can deploy and be up and running in a short amount of time. Librenms can
monitor Servers, and network equipment around 500 endpoints on it. Standard
ping, uptime.
18. The Dude
The dude
network monitor is an application by MikroTik for windows-based computers. It
functions as a visual network monitor which enables users to manage network structure.
19. Grafana
It's
extremely easy to set up, configure and add new servers. It gives a history of
what has been going on using beautiful graphs. You can see a graph of
CPU/memory/hard drive/network usage, hard drive free space, number of handles
each running application has, and view it over any time period I choose.
20. Lansweeper
It is an
excellent tool for a small network. It's free for up to 100 nodes. It is
agentless IT assets management and network inventory software tool for Windows
OS.
21. My Ping App
My Ping App is
great for managing and health checking servers.
22. MRTG
MRTG (Multi
Router Traffic Grapher) is a tool that monitors traffic on a network connection
mainly using SNMP. Many of its users have now discovered PRTG network monitor
an innovative and user-friendly network and bandwidth monitoring tool.
23. Observium
Observium is
a PHP/MySQL driven network observation and monitoring application, that
supports a wide range of operating systems/hardware platforms including windows
Linux, cisco and many more.
24. IP Switch
Powerful
software for Network Monitoring across Cloud, Virtual and On-premises environments.
25. Zenoss
Zenoss
provides software and tools for effective monitoring of physical
infrastructures to successfully manage Networks, Servers and Storage.
26. OP5
An enterprise
level open source monitoring solution which allows Administrators to complete
monitoring of their IT Infrastructure.
27. Whatsup Gold
Whatsup Gold
Network Monitoring software lets you monitor entire Networked Infrastructure as
well as applications, configurations and Network traffic.
