Netmon

Netmon is a comprehensive network monitoring appliance which gives you a complete perspective of your network from a variety of vantage points.

Imagine adding a thousand pairs of eyes to your network, each working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to monitor critical operational metrics:

• Device Monitoring and Management (SNMP)
• Network Traffic and Activity Monitoring
• Bandwidth Monitoring
• Service Monitoring
• Protocol Activity Monitoring
• Disk and Volume Monitoring
• Syslog and Event Log Monitoring
• Security Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting
• Cisco Netflow Analysis and Reporting
• Email and Pager Notification / Alerts
• Environmental Monitoring

Netmon lets you intuitively explore the activity on your network with smart graphical tools like the Visual Network Explorer. A built-in email and pager alert system is designed to keep administrators informed of important events. Company: Netmon Inc.
Internet:   www.netmon.ca

Axence NetTools

Axence 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, event log, disk, memory & CPU information, etc. Allows to edit registry.
• Port scanner - checks for all open ports and running services. It can discover some Trojans/spyware.
• Network scanner - discovers all nodes, 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, which you can use even if you don't know a thing about SNMP.
• IP tools: ping, fast traceroute, lookup, bandwidth test tool, SNMP browser.

Free version available.
Company: Axence Software, Inc.
Internet:   www.axencesoftware.com

Axence nVision

Axence nVision monitors servers, applications, routers and user activity. It collects hardware and software inventory; provides alerting and reports.

Using either TCP/IP, SNMP or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), nVision can identify and monitor:

• Mail, web servers and URLs
• TCP/IP and Windows services (with the ability to restart failed services)
• Applications health and performance (MS SQL, Exchange, etc.)
• Switches and routers: interface status, network traffic and nodes connected to every port
• Windows and SNMP device performance - such as CPU utilization, memory, disk space, network transfers, etc.

The network is automatically discovered and presented on interactive graphical map.
nVision automatically collects node hardware and software information: model, CPU, memory, main board, drives, cards, etc., installed applications and Windows updates. It allows license usage auditing and verification. It will also alert you in case of a program installation or any configuration change on a remote node. Optional agents can monitor user activity: user activity/inactivity time, application usage, visited web pages. The agent provides also workstation remote control.

The program provides a wide range of alerts and reports: real-time and historical charts, system & application performance, service and host availability, interface traffic and utilization, inventory, user activity. Company: Axence Software, Inc.
Internet:   www.axencesoftware.com

Intellipool Network Monitor

Intellipool Network Monitor is an easy to use, browser based network monitor that can help you to monitor a variety of different protocols and services on LAN or internet machines. It runs under Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a service and consumes minimal system resources. The interface is web based and all you need is a device with a web browser to control Intellipool. Intellipool is structured into actions, objects and agents as well as configurable operators and groups.

Monitoring agents include RDP 5.0(Windows Terminal Server), ICA (Citrix Metaframe 1.7-1.8), ODBC, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, TFTP, IMAP4 TCP Port scan (Firewall test), SSH2, Ping, syslog, eventlog, cpu load, swap file usage, disk space and many others. The program is able to log errors and informational messages to XML file, Syslog, Windows Eventlog or an ODBC database. Notification options include SMS, NotePage, PageGate and of course Email.
Company: Intellipool AB
Internet:   http://www.intellipool.se

InterMapper Network Monitoring and Alerting

InterMapper's active maps give a visual, real-time view of traffic flows through and between critical network devices and links. It also queries your servers to let you know when you have problems—even before your customers call.
InterMapper uses SNMP to provide utilization statistics to help you optimize performance, as well displaying traffic, error, and outage information so you can be aware of trouble spots.
Company: Dartware, LLC
Internet:   http://www.intermapper.com/

NetVoyant

NetVoyant provides SNMP-based performance metrics for managing network infrastructure, devices, and services. It empowers you to manage the performance of your infrastructure by:

• Measuring VoIP jitter, latency, and packet loss statistics using Cisco IP SLA
• Identifying and alerting you to problems with infrastructure availability and resource consumption before these issues impact business operations
• Providing an accurate picture of device status and utilization
• Supplying detailed historical reports to justify infrastructure expenditures
• Delivering real-time reporting and alarms to troubleshoot and diagnose device-level issues that impact network and service performance

Company: NetQoS, Inc.
Internet:   www.netqos.com/solutions/netvoyant/index.html

OpManager

With growing IT technology and complexity, it is more than challenging to guarantee a healthy infrastructure. ManageEngine OpManager facilitates trouble-free infrastructure monitoring with its simple design, ease of use and exhaustive features.

OpManager predominantly uses SNMP for monitoring every element in your IT infrastructure. ManageEngine OpManager is a complete end-to-end, proactive, business centric infrastructure monitoring software. It gives you a unified monitoring solution for your network. OpManager monitors Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Wireless Access points, WAN links, VoIP network, Servers, Services, URLs, Applications, Database, UPS, Printers and much more.

OpManager uses SNMP for monitoring your critical:

• Servers (Windows/ Linux/ Solaris) for CPU, Memory, Disk, Server Temperature, RAID failures, IO statistics, and etc… (Alternatively you can also monitor Server resources using WMI or CLI)
• Applications viz. Oracle, Lotus Domino, RDBMS related monitors and etc… [It also supports monitoring Microsoft’s Active Directory, SQL and Exchange]
• Routers, Switches, Firewall, and Wireless Access points for CPU, Memory, Temperature, Backplane utilization, Active Connection counts, Interface or port wise traffic details, Error and discards and much more
• Other Infrastructure devices like UPS, Printers, Temperature sensors and etc.
• Besides the out-of-the-box monitors, you can configure custom SNMP monitors using OpManager. This facilitates monitoring of performance for almost any device that is pingable and has SNMP enabled!

You can also configure OpManager as SNMP Trap destination, which makes it easy to identify tough times.
OpManager is an ideal and affordable network monitoring tool for managing today’s complex networks. The small network 10 node edition is available free of cost.

Operational Highlights	Feature Highlights
100% web-based Agent-less monitoring (Uses SNMP, TCP/IP, WMI, CLI, Cisco’s IP SLA) Rich GUI and Intuitive graphs Designed to support heterogeneous environment Multi-platform support Scalable Architecture	Integrated Infrastructure Management Business Centric IT Management Network Performance Management Server and Application Management Fault Management (Be the First to know) Trend Analysis and Capacity Planning

* Start at $995. Company: AdventNet Inc.
Internet:   manageengine.adventnet.com

SNMP Explorer

SNMP Explorer is a versatile networking tool for IT professionals. If you have SNMP managable devices in your network, SNMP Explorer provides a tree view of your SNMP managable devices, provides a way to talk to or from the devices, provides a flexible log of transactions, and permits you to transact with the devices with simple yet powerful scripts.

Devices that support SNMP provide a standard, powerful network management interface. Yet this protocol is not supported by any standard PC tools such as web browsers, FTP clients, or the like. Only minimum SNMP capabilities can be found in freeware or shareware, and full SNMP support typically costs much, much more. Unless you have a more expensive SNMP tool already, you need SNMP Explorer.
(-) SNMP Explorer can read the Managed Information Blocks definition files and therefore can work with MIBs by name.
(-) SNMP Explorer can perform SNMP Get, Get Next, Get Bulk, or Set.
(-) SNMP Explorer supports a versatile log capability which can display any message content logically.
(-) SNMP Explorer message creation window makes it easy to construct SNMP messages with multiple parameters.
(-) SNMP Explorer provides a powerful scripting language which magnifies it's power. With SNMP Explorer you can easily write simple scripts to configure or monitor a whole network.

Company: ComroeStudios
Internet:   http://www.comroestudios.com

TrapBlaster

TrapBlaster is a software-based solution that receives, filters and converts SNMP traps. SNMP traps generated from any device can be sent directly to TrapBlaster where they are filtered, converted or forwarded to your network management application. Since TrapBlaster may be used as the distribution point for all of your SNMP traps, you can easily reconfigure your management tools without changing the trap destination for your devices.

With TrapBlaster you can migrate existing SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 devices to standards based SNMPv3 traps with strong authentication and encryption. In addition, TrapBlaster guarantees trap delivery and allows users to replicate traps for delivery to multiple network management devises.
Company: TrapBlaster
Internet:   http://www.trapblaster.com/