Freeware: Network Monitoring

	ManageEngine OpManager Free Edition  License: Freeware
	ManageEngine OpManager is a comprehensive, easy to use and affordable Network, Systems and Applications monitoring software that offers integrated fault and performance management functionality. It is an ideal network monitoring software for WAN monitoring, LAN monitoring, Windows Services & Event Log monitoring, URL monitoring, Server management and Application management. OpManager automatically discovers and maps resources across the network and presents an integrated view of the enterprise in a single NMS console. OpManager actively monitors the network and notifies operators by email / SMS when a fault occurs. OpManager provides reports and graphs for Interface statistics, CPU, Memory, Disk statistics and service response-times and availability. OpManager provides more than 160 out-of-the-box graphs to manage Cisco devices, MS-Exchange, Lotus Notes, Oracle, MSSQL, Dell and Compaq servers. It also supports adding custom graphs to monitor any SNMP parameter. The 10 Node Small Network Edition is available Free of cost. Author: AdventNet Inc.| Date: 10-01-2005 | Size: 26834 KB
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	Bello Network Monitoring WinGUI  License: Freeware
	Our on-demand monitoring service makes it easy and affordable to detect network and website failures early, minimizing downtime and avoiding economic impact. bello network monitoring service periodically checks your website as well as your other servers. As soon as outages are discovered you will be notified via email, SMS/pager or ICQ message. For the free starter account the monitoring interval is 60 minutes, for full service accounts you can choose monitoring intervals down to one minute. Sensor types include PING, PORT, HTTP, HTTPS, Advanced HTTP, HTTP Transaction, DNS, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, FTP and more. Even if you run your own monitoring systems you might want to consider using our on-demand monitoring service as a "second opinion" about the availability of websites and their uptimes, e.g. when SLA (service level agreements) must be checked. Author: Paessler AG| Date: 24-08-2006 | Size: 1287 KB
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	ManageEngine Applications Manager  License: Freeware
	Applications Manager offers a single integrated monitoring tool suitable for application monitoring, database monitoring, system monitoring, website monitoring, services monitoring, and custom application monitoring. An easy-to-use and affordable tool, which provides a holistic view of the resources in the entire IT infrastrastructure. Applications Manager proactively monitors the applications and servers and notifies problems in network through e-mail/SMS. It provides graphs and reports that display performance and availability data of the monitors. It also supports for monitoring custom applications, which includes building of SNMP Consoles and JMX Consoles. You can manage 10 monitors in your network using the free edition. Author: AdventNet, Inc.| Date: 01-03-2005 | Size: 30120 KB
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	Little:eye FREE  License: Freeware
	CBR little:eye, which is developed for management of IT infrastructure of enterprise and provides management of fault, performance, inventory and configuration is the closest assistant of system administrators through impressive user interface and usability Publish-me.com. Little:eye network management software performs all of the functions expected from standard network management software like: Maps(AutoDiscovery) Monitoring Fault Management Remote Control Inventory management for Windows Web based reports Performance Monitoring CISCO device monitoring MOTOROLA device monitoring SNMP Device monitoring Client-Server Architecture Network printer monitoring Syslog Deamon Application Monitoring Bandwidth test DHCP DNS HTTP (URL) IMAP LDAP ODBC POP3 SMTP Telnet(*) MSSQL MAIL SQL QUERY UDPECHO CPU load Disk size Memory NTP Ping Process(*) Service(*) SNMP TCP port scan ORACLE MS exchange server Sun Servers MYSQL VMWARE ... Little:Eye is the most cost affective solution for monitoring networks. Author: CBR Software| Date: 09-03-2006 | Size: 70996 KB
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	AdventNet ManageEngine OpManager  License: Freeware
	ManageEngine OpManager is an ideal network monitoring software suitable for WAN/LAN monitoring, Server & Applications management, Windows Services and Event Log monitoring, URL, UPS, Firewall monitoring & much more. Being a comprehensive, easy to use, affordable systems and applications monitoring software, it offers integrated fault and performance management functionality. OpManager automates several network monitoring tasks and removes the complexity associated with network management. This network monitoring software will help you in, aligning your IT to business, visualize & manage your WAN, manage your entire datacenter infrastructure and enabling you to be the first to know in case of any deviations so that you can feel assured that you are in control of your entire Network infrastructure. When you choose OpManager as your network monitoring software, you are buying a powerful network management tool that can auto-discover your entire network, group your devices into intuitive maps, monitor devices in real-time, alert instantaneously on failure and provide comprehensive reports and graphs. OpManager automatically discovers and maps resources across the network and presents an integrated view of the enterprise in a single NMS console. It actively monitors the network and notifies operators by email / SMS when a fault occurs. OpManager provides reports and graphs for Interface statistics, CPU, Memory, Disk statistics and service response-times and availability. OpManager provides more than 160 out-of-the-box monitors to manage Cisco devices, MS-Exchange, Active Directory (version 6.0 has Exchange & Active Directory monitor add-ons), Lotus Notes, Oracle, MSSQL, Dell and Compaq servers. It also comes with MS SQL DB backend support. It supports adding custom monitors to monitor any SNMP parameter. The 10 Node Small Network Edition is available Free of cost. Author: AdventNet Inc.| Date: 13-11-2007 | Size: 31467 KB
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	PRTG Network Monitor  License: Freeware
	An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported: SNMP and WMI, Packet Sniffing, and NetFlow. PRTG Network Monitor includes more than 30 sensor types for all common network services (e.g. PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc.), allowing users to monitor networks for speed and failures. As soon as an outage occurs, alerts are sent via email, SMS, pager messages and other means. Request times and downtimes are recorded in an internal database, making it easy to compile performance, downtime and SLA reports. PRTG Network Monitor's Freeware Edition is completely free for personal and commercial use. The Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors. Author: Paessler AG| Date: 03-09-2008 | Size: 30336 KB
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	DnsEye  License: Freeware
	DnsEye is monitoring network traffic by capturing Domain Name System DNS packets in network and displays the host names resolve information. The program allows to monitor requested URLs in network, to open it in browser and save captured DNS name list in the file. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 08-12-2006 | Size: 479 KB
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	AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils  License: Freeware
	The AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils is a comprehensive set of 40+ unique system and network monitoring tools. It is a Java and web-based troubleshooting software for monitoring devices such as router, switch, server, desktop, etc. The tool set is best suited for IT operational staff and network engineers responsible for maintaining and monitoring networks. AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils 3 provides real-time monitoring tools to troubleshoot poor network performance, heavy bandwidth utilization and connectivity or link problems before they turn into outages, delayed response times, high CPU usage, hard disk utilization, device availability, software inventory, etc. It has a collection of 40+ real-time troubleshooting tools. A standard enterprise manager monitors the devices in periodic intervals and stores the data in a database, whereas ManageEngine OpUtils provides real-time data instantly. ManageEngine OpUtils is available in Free and Professional Editions. OpUtils Free Edition has 25 tools, and it is absolutely free of cost. Some important tools in the Free Edition are Ping Scan, SNMP Scan, MAC Scan, DNS Scan, Enhanced Ping, Proxy Ping, all desktop monitoring tools (CPU, Hard disk, Process monitoring, etc.) and most of the SNMP tools (SNMP Walker, SNMP Graph, MIB Viewer and Trap Receiver). The Professional Edition has 43 tools, which includes Network monitoring (Switch Port Mapper, Wake-on-LAN, Performance and Bandwidth monitoring) and Cisco Router monitoring tools. (IOS, Chassis, Flash, CPU, Memory, Interfaces, Config Files, etc.) The 30-day trial copy is available for download in the web site. The Professional Edition costs $195. Since it is a web-based product, you can install OpUtils in one machine and allow many users to connect and use the tools at the same time. This is a real boon to stressed IT and System administrators. Author: AdventNet Inc.| Date: 01-03-2005 | Size: 26095 KB
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	Pingdom GIGRIB  License: Freeware
	Pingdom GIGRIB is a free, unique, distributed uptime monitoring service Publish-me.com. GIGRIB users can add websites they want monitored in return for letting their own computers become a part of the GIGRIB monitoring network. The uptime information for the thousands of websites that have been added by GIGRIB users is public and searchable. Each GIGRIB user can add up to 10 different websites for monitoring. The downtimes of all added sites can be seen on uptime.pingdom.com. When you install the GIGRIB client, your computer becomes one of the many “test nodes� that report uptime for multiple websites to a central location. Every website monitored by the GIGRIB network will always be tested from several of these test nodes. For every hour of work your GIGRIB client does for the Pingdom GIGRIB network, you get an additional five hours of uptime checks for the websites you yourself have added. You can accumulate up to 30 days of monitoring this way, ideal if you go on a vacation and will have your computer turned off for days. Author: Pingdom AB| Date: 11-12-2006 | Size: 2570 KB
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	NADetector  License: Freeware
	NADetector monitors and analyzes the network traffic and displays statistical information pertaining to each IP address pair and protocol, helping network administrators and users troubleshoot network problems. The main purpose of NADetector is to allow you to collect statistical information about your network traffic that passes through network adapters and display incoming, outgoing and summary traffic statistics. This information is useful, especially for understanding the different IP addresses and data amounts involved with a given network utilizing task. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Author: Nsasoft LLC.| Date: 15-11-2007 | Size: 527 KB
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	Visual NetTools  License: Freeware
	Visual NetTools is a set of network scanning, security, and administrator tools for Apple Mac useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network connections. Current version of Visual NetTools includes: Visual Ping Sends out an echo request to a specific computer on the network. It can be used to check communication links or to check whether the specific host exists or is running. Ping include not only text, but a complete Visual representation of echo requests from your comp. You can manage Ping interval and target host. History of network host included. We will add a lot of new tools shortly, some of new tools: TraceRoute: allow you to explore the Internet and troubleshoot connectivity problems. NetStat: displays a list of your computer's inbound and outbound network connections, including the information on open TCP and UDP ports, IP address, and connection states. What makes it different from other NetStat utilities is the ability to map open ports to the owning application. Configurable alerts for incoming and outgoing connections are also available. PortScan: an advanced TCP port scanner that allows you to scan your network for active ports. And more useful tools for network monitoring and security. Author: AirGrab| Date: 04-09-2008 | Size: 2601 KB
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	Network Ping  License: Freeware
	Network Ping is the network diagnostic utility that allows visual monitoring of computers/devices activity in the network. The notification feature helps to identify the machines ping reply status change by sending emails. Author: Greenline-Soft Labs| Date: 12-09-2007 | Size: 197 KB
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	AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer  License: Freeware
	AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer is a professional network analyzer (also known as protocol analyzer and packet sniffer), AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer performs real-time packet capturing, network monitoring, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding. It allows you to get a clear view of the complex network, conduct packet level analysis, and troubleshoot network problems. You can Analyze Network events, Network protocols, Packet details (packet decoding), Network conversations. No training needed, no profound background required, data are displayed in intuitive tables and graphs. Features:  # Inspection of of protocols, with more being added all the time  # Live capture and offline analysis  # Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI  # Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, and others compatible devices  # Decryption support for many protocols  # Coloring graph of the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis  # Monitor Monitor Network Traffic  # Monitor Network Bandwidth Use  # Full Network traffic details Author: AirGrab| Date: 09-09-2008 | Size: 3379 KB
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	Alchemy Ping  License: Freeware
	A nice FREE graphic replacement for the standard PING utility. Author: Alchemy Lab| Date: -41-2002 | Size: 203 KB
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	FinitySoft Network Monitor  License: Freeware
	FinitySoft Network Monitor displays all kind of information in real time about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system. Data displayed for each network adapter: - Current download speed - Current upload speed - Total data downloaded - Total data uploaded - IP address - Adapter speed - MTU size - Adapter type - MAC address - Status - Admin status - many more Author: FinitySoft| Date: 09-11-2007 | Size: 207 KB
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	BySoft Network Monitor  License: Freeware
	BySoft Network Monitor 1.2 displays all kind of information in real time (1-second update) about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system. Data displayed for each network adapter: - Current download speed - Current upload speed - Total data downloaded - Total data uploaded - IP address - Adapter speed - MTU size - Adapter type - MAC address - Status - Admin status - many more Author: BySoft| Date: -76-2008 | Size: 207 KB
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	VE Network Catcher (Lite)  License: Freeware
	Network Catcher, from Shunra Software, is a free network monitoring tool that records and displays latency and packet loss between your PC and any internet site. Use this freeware tool to monitor the quality of your network link. You can save all your recordings and send it to another user via email. Network Catcher also integrates with Shunra’s network simulation technology, enabling you to capture and import production conditions directly into network simulation scenarios and test applications under real-life network conditions. Network Catcher’s production network recordings are also ideal for baselining the performance of the production network, including best case, worst case and average application performance – giving you a great starting point from which to make informed decisions on performance limitations and expectations for new or existing applications that are about to be deployed over the network. Using production network parameters is ideal for testing applications when the target network already exists, such as a company’s corporate network or a customer’s network. However, if the target network has not yet been designed or built out, you can record a variety of different production networks and create a library of production network conditions which you can then use to test your applications and ensure that that they meet performance expectations in any potential network environment. Author: Shunra Software| Date: 01-12-2005 | Size: 533 KB
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	MISPBO Network Monitor  License: Freeware
	MISPBO Network Monitor is a free, fast and powerful monitoring tool for users who want to control and monitor the Internet traffic on the company or home network. Author: MISPBO Technologies| Date: 16-01-2007 | Size: 1349 KB
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	Network Sniffer Complete  License: Freeware
	Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer, a revolutionary new network management tool designed from the ground up with ease and functionality in mind. Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer Network Sniffer is a Windows based Packet sniffer an Network analyzer, a revolutionary new network management tool designed from the ground up with ease and functionality in mind. Network Sniffer aids at monitoring network traffic in order to recognize and decode certain packets of interest. Network Sniffer puts your Network adapter into listening mode, capturing everything that travels through the Network. This can help you solve network bottlenecks or spot illegitimate activity like crack attacks, Spyware, and other sort of malicious, unormal Traffic. Key Features: 1. Simple network sniffer/packet capturing tool 2. Intuitive user interface. 3. Can detect OS's, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. 4. Does overload traffic on the network. 5. Can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis. Author: MySystemExpert| Date: 29-06-2008 | Size: 2220 KB
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	Paessler WMI Tester  License: Freeware
	Paessler WMI Tester is a tool for quickly and easily testing the accessibility of WMI counters. "Windows Management Instrumentation" is the latest technology from Microsoft for monitoring and managing Windows based systems. WMI allows a process to read data for many Windows' configuration parameters as well as current system status values. Access can take place locally or remotely via a network connection. WMI is based on COM and DCOM and is integrated in Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and later. Add-ons are available for Windows 9x and NT4. Products like Paessler's IPCheck Server Monitor make use of the WMI functionality to monitor computers in network environments. Author: Paessler AG| Date: 10-10-2007 | Size: 386 KB
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	Traffic graph  License: Freeware
	Traffic Graph is a network analytic tool that examines local area network usage and provides a display of upload and download statistics. The main puropse of the application is monitoring (and counting) the IP traffic between your local area network (LAN) and Internet. Author: Michael Kochiashvili| Date: 30-11-2005 | Size: 257 KB
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	SiteUp  License: Freeware
	SiteUp monitors your web sites and warns you when any become unreachable (e.g. when a server crashes). Because it checks page content it can even detect when the server is OK, but a site or page is unavailable. There is no limit to the number of sites that can be monitored, including secure sites, and the checking frequency can be anywhere between once a minute and once a day. When a site goes down the system tray icon will change to an animated alarm and optionally you are displayed a warning message. When a site becomes available again you can view a log to determine how long the site has been down. Author: Xequte Software| Date: 08-12-2005 | Size: 918 KB
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	Axence NetTools  License: Freeware
	NetTools is a comprehensive set of administration tools: - NetWatch - host monitoring with alerting, real-time & historical charts of response time & packet lost. E-mail & sound notifications available when a host is down. - WinTools - lists exhaustive system information from Windows computers: running processes & services, registry, event log, disk, memory & CPU information, etc. - Port scanner - checks for all open ports and running services. It can discover some Trojans/spyware. - Network scanner - discovers all nodes in a remote network, their IP/MAC and services running on them. - NetStat - displays your computer's inbound and outbound connections, lists all open TCP/UDP ports, with the remote IP address & the process using the connection. - TCP/IP workshop - establishes low-level TCP/UDP connections to troubleshoot and test network services. It can send raw data to any remote port. - SNMP Browser - a full SNMP browser, so easy you can use it even if you don’t know a thing about SNMP. - Other tools: fast traceroute shows information about every host on the route, its response time, and packets lost (full trace within 1 second). Lookup is like nslookup, but it shows you all DNS and WHOIS records at once. Bandwidth tool will measure network performance. NetCheck - with this tool you can check the quality of network hardware in your LAN. Free & Pro versions. Author: Axence Software, Inc.| Date: 15-11-2006 | Size: 15723 KB
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	IPCheck Server Monitor  License: Freeware
	Reliable network and website monitoring using Paessler's proven and constantly refined IPCheck technology which has been used for network management by many companies from SOHOs to Fortune 500 worldwide since 1997. Sensor types include PING, PORT, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP Advanced, HTTP Transaction, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SNMP, as well as various native Windows system sensors and native SQL sensors for MS SQL, MySQL and Oracle. Network management notifications can be triggered by server uptime, downtime, changed webpages, or slow responses. Messages can be sent by email, network broadcast (net send), ICQ, via SMS and to pagers. The free for personal and commercial use is limited to 5 sensors and minimum monitoring interval of 15 minutes. It can be upgraded by requesting a Free 30 Day Trial License or by purchasing a Full License. Here are the main features of IPCheck Server Monitor:     * Powered by Paessler's reliable IPCheck™ technology   * Eight-year-ongoing process of refinement and new features   * Easy installation and usage - You can get started in less than 5 minutes!   * Remote Management via web browser, PocketPC, or Windows client   * Notifies users about outages by email, ICQ, or pager/SMS, and more   * Monitors network services with its comprehensive sensor type selection   * Multiple location monitoring using secure Remote Probes Author: Paessler AG| Date: 31-01-2008 | Size: 30723 KB
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	Chase IP  License: Freeware
	Chase ip monitors your network and gives you real time information on packets incoming and outgoing. It has a cool country from ip address locator and also a local area network computer locator. Its simple but if you need to find out what is moving across your network and exactly to where then Chase IP has a lot of information and broadband speed test Author: Chase IP| Date: 4-91-2006 | Size: 1622 KB
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	iNetQuery  License: Freeware
	iNetQuery is a powerful Internet utility for network monitoring for MS Windows platforms. Special query features, like DNS, Whois or NetStat, can be used to determine detailed information about domains, hostnames or network providers. Utiltities like Ping or Traceroute are suitable to find out if a remote host is reachable or to check your network performance. iNetQuery captures all active network connections, as well as the running tasks on the local system. Unwanted data transactions and activities of unknown applications, e.g. trojans, can be detected and denied in this way. Additional utilities can query special DNS records like SPF (Sender Policy Framework) or Open-Relay databases to find blacklisteted hostnames. A status panel shows detailed information about installed network interfaces. Adapter properties and activities, as well as statitistics about tranferred bytes and packets, are shown there. A special report engine can create detailed reports about domains or hostnames. Information about domain owners, network providers and responsible persons will be determined automatically and displayed in a detailed summary. Author: atrium software international| Date: 30-08-2004 | Size: 3756 KB
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	CleverEye for Availability Monitoring  License: Freeware
	What CleverEye for Availability Monitors NodeWatch gives you complete view on the availability of your environment, Ping Check Routers, Switches, and other vital network components. Monitor Servers or any TCP Connect based application DNS, FTP, Web servers, Mail servers, and Application servers monitoring TaskWatch monitors response time of your applications by executing user defined tasks. That is, it monitors availability from the application layer perspective. Database, FTP, Webserver, Advanced Webserver, DNS, Mail Server, LDAP Server, Network File Copy, Active Directory, and Custom Test Features and Capabilities Network Status Map: Quickly see a graphical display of your nodes and displays alert message as the mouse moves over the node. (NodeWatch Only) Dependencies- Apply dependencies to your nodes as needed and be alerted if a router goes down, without receiving multiple alerts from the other nodes affected by it. Side Watch- Small Window that gives an overview Ready-made Reports Predefined essential reports in real time: Top N, Service Level, Agreement (SLA) Daily / Monthly / Yearly Report, Node Alert Details, and Event List Historical reports: pull up reports for any date Email reports: share with managers or colleagues Export report data to MS Excel Grouping -Easily classify nodes into groups with common attributes for easier management Profiles - Create monitoring window profiles e.g.: "business hours","weekends" Exclude maintenance / blackout periods Quickly assign profiles to monitoring groups User Management Grant read write access to different users for security purposes Graphing Zoom from minute to monthly scale Summary statistics Choose line or bar graph style Alerts / Reactions Numerical paging, Email, SNMP trap, and custom scripts Set alarm thresholds, persistence conditions and two reactions per alert Four alert levels: Down, Error, Warning, Information Email can include up to 8 alert variables Author: NRG Global| Date: 14-09-2005 | Size: 9377 KB
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	ManageEngine WiFi Manager  License: Freeware
	WiFi Manager is a combined WLAN security and management software for 802.11 a/b/g networks. It presents a Web-based view of all wireless networks operating in your building, access points available inside each network, status of those access points, channel at which they operate, mobile clients connected to them and their signal strength/ noise values, and association history. You can configure/ upgrade firmware of access points using this software. And once integrated with RF sensors, WiFi Manager becomes a full-fledged wireless IDS system generating more than 40 different security alarms on rogue APs, intrusions, denial-of-service attacks, and vulnerabilities. WiFi Manager can monitor both wired and wireless LANs. It automatically discovers access points, routers, switches, servers, desktops, and printers, and monitors them for availability, health, errors, and utilization. Note: Free Edition manages 3 access points and 10 wired devices. Author: AdventNet, Inc.| Date: 30-11-2004 | Size: 20480 KB
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	ManageEngine DeviceExpert Free Edition  License: Freeware
	ManageEngine DeviceExpert is a comprehensive Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) solution that enables the Network Administrator to efficiently and effortlessly manage the configurations of Network Devices. DeviceExpert offers multi-vendor network device configuration, continuous monitoring of configuration changes, notifications on respective changes, detailed operation audit and trails, easy and safe recovery to trusted configurations, automation of configuration tasks and insightful reporting. DeviceExpert can manage network devices such as switches, routers, firewalls etc., from multiple vendors. It discovers network devices, builds up an inventory database and allows IT administrators to take control of configuring the devices from a central console. The web-based administrator console provides the User Interface to perform all the configuration operations and it can be accessed from anywhere using any standard web browser. Author: AdventNet, Inc.| Date: 31-12-2005 | Size: 24000 KB
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	PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher  License: Freeware
	PRTG Traffic Grapher is an easy to use Windows application for monitoring and classifying bandwidth usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. PRTG is mainly used for bandwidth usage monitoring, but may also be used to monitor many other aspects of a network such as memory and CPU utilization. With PRTG Traffic Grapher the user receives comprehensive bandwidth and network usage data that helps to optimize the efficiency of the network. Understanding bandwidth and resource consumption is the key to better network management: Avoid bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks; Find out what applications or what servers use up your bandwidth; Deliver better quality of service to your users by being proactive; Reduce costs by buying bandwidth and hardware according to actual load. The Freeware Edition of PRTG Traffic Grapher is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded for free. PRTG Traffic Grapher is designed to run on a Windows machine in your network for 24 hours every day, and constantly records the network usage parameters. The recorded data is stored in an internal database for later reference. Using an easy to use Windows interface you can configure the monitored sensors as well as create usage reports. For remote access PRTG Traffic Grapher comes with a built-in web server to provide access to graphs and tables. All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported: SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol is the basic method of gathering bandwidth and network usage data. It can be used to monitor bandwidth usage of routers and switches port-by-port as well as device readings like memory, CPU load etc. Packet Sniffing: With its built-in Packet Sniffer PRTG can inspect all network data packets passing the network card to calculate the bandwidth usage. NetFlow: The NetFlow protocol is supported by most Cisco routers to measure bandwidth usage. Author: Paessler AG| Date: 11-07-2008 | Size: 26600 KB
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