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Network management is the process of administering, managing, and operating a data network, using a network management system. Modern network management systems use software and hardware to constantly collect and analyze data and push out configuration changes for improving performance, reliability, and security.
World Class IT, Server, Log, and Network Monitoring Software for IT Infrastructure Monitoring. Nagios XI provides monitoring and alerting of applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party addons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house and external applications, services, and systems.
Visibility Provides a central view of your entire IT operations network and business processes. Powerful dashboards provide at-a-glance access to powerful monitoring information and third-party data. Views provide users with quick access to the information they find most useful.
Proactive Planning & Awareness Automated, integrated trending and capacity planning graphs allow organizations to plan for infrastructure upgrades before outdated systems catch them by surprise. Alerts are sent to IT staff, business stakeholders, and end-users via email or mobile text messages, providing them with outage details so they can start resolving issues immediately.
Customizable A powerful GUI provides for customization of layout, design, and preferences on a per-user basis, giving your customers and team members the flexibility they want.
Ease of Use Integrated web-based configuration interface lets admins hand out control of managing monitoring configuration, system settings, and more to end-users and team members easily. Configuration wizards guide users through the process of monitoring new devices, services, and applications - all without having to understand complex monitoring concepts.
Multi-Tenant Capabilities Multi-user access to web interface allows stakeholders to view relevant infrastructure status. User-specific views ensures clients only see the infrastructure components they're authorized for. Advanced user management simplifies administration by allowing you to mange user accounts easily. Provision new user accounts with a few clicks and users automatically receive an email.
PC Monitor, remotely monitors and manage your IT infrastructure using this securely encrypted app that gives you total control of your critical servers and applications from anywhere, anytime. You can monitor up to five computers using this application for free, no subscription payment is required and no time limitation. It monitors the status and uptime of all computers, the current CPU usage and available memory, start, stop, pause, or restart services, all logged-in users, log them off or send them a message, and the external IP address and view the computer location on the map.
LogMeIn Hamachi is a VPN that’s easy to use, highly customizable, and free of charge. You can use it to create your own virtual private network, where the program simulates a real local area network between various remote computers. This can be used to establish private communication conducive to everything from professional file sharing to chatting over your favorite multiplayer game.
Hamachi works intuitively, with a user interface that’s simple to pick up. You can use the VPN to easily create, manage and maintain virtual private networks from practically anywhere. While it’s great for Windows PC, it can also extend secure LAN-like network connectivity to mobile users. There are various customization options for all your managed networks, available right under the ‘Networks’ tab on the left panel.
AT&T Communication Manager is an easy-to-use software that allows you to manage your connection to the AT&T mobile data network and to Wi-Fi networks. The key features are: Simple installation and intuitive user interface, Access to our EDGE and 3G networks and roaming partners' networks, where applicable, Provides easy authentication at AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots for customers who meet certain eligibility requirements.
AT&T Communication Manager can normally be installed directly from your device or from an accompanying CD if included with your device. To see which version you have installed, check the under the "Help" in "About Communication Manager.
NETGEAR Genie is a dashboard to manage, monitor and repair your network. You can remotely control all media in your home from your smartphone/tablet with MyMedia. You can print on any printer from your iPad or iPhone with AirPrint and view all the devices on your network.
Spiceworks is a free IT network management app and help desk software designed for networks with up to 1,000 devices. It combines help desk software, network inventory, asset management, bandwidth monitoring, IT reporting, network configuration management, mobile device managment, built-in TFTP server, a Community user-generated IT knowledge base, request for quote feature, SNMP v3 management, Active Directory management, UPS power management software, help ticket merging, multi-threading, Green IT support, SQL server monitoring, warranty renewal tracking, and IT community Q&A into one easy-to-use application. Once downloaded to your desktop, you can also take Spiceworks on the go with iPhone and Android smartphone apps and tablet apps. Spiceworks enables you to quickly and conveniently inventory the hardware, software, and patches that reside on your network; use built-in TFTP server tool for network configuration management; request quotes for various IT purchases; manage employee profiles in Active Directory using People View; monitor your network for new software, license compliance violations, low disk space, offline servers, low printer supplies; report easily on the information you need to manage your network; get SNMP v3 monitoring support; track network issues and your projects with trouble tickets; ask questions to the Spiceworks IT community of sysadmins in SMBs worldwide. Spiceworks requires no agents to be installed and managed. And best of all, Spiceworks is completely free including support and software upgrades.
IDEAL Administration simplifies the administration of your Windows Workgroups and Windows Active Directory domains by providing in a single tool all the necessary features for managing domains, servers, stations and users. With IDEAL Administration, browse and manage your Workgroups and Active Directory domains becomes as easy as surfing the Internet.
Software Features: Full and Centralized Administration for Multiple Windows Active Directory Domains and Workgroups. User-Friendly Interface to Manage Domains and Workgroups. Remote Control for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux Systems. Remote Control through Internet for Windows Computers Outside the Corporate Network. Chat, Screenshots, File Transfer and Share Screen with End-Users during Remote Sessions. Automatic Installation and Configuration of Remote Control Agent. Full HTML Reports for Active Directory Domains. Powerful Active Directory Tools for Exploring, Editing and Searching. Group Policy Object (GPO) Management. Automatic and Planned Inventory of your Windows Systems in HTML, CSV, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Databases. Windows Active Directory Migration Tools between Domains & Servers. Automatic and Planned Wake up of Computers (Wake On LAN). Remote Settings for Computer Name, IP Addresses, UAC, Firewall. Full Remote Windows WMI Management from a GUI Interface. Remote Product Key Recovery (Microsoft, Adobe, Pointdev). Administrative Tasks can be Performed Simultaneously on Multiple Computers. Configuration Wizard for a Quick Start. One License by IT Admin User for an Unlimited Number of Managed Domains, Servers and Workstations. Ready to use in 5 minutes. Available in 5 languages at the same price: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
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, failover clustering, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for acquiring network usage data are supported: SNMP and WMI, Packet Sniffing and NetFlow / sFlow / jFlow. It also offers SMTP/IMAP Roundtrip-Email Monitoring and VMware Monitoring, VoIP Monitoring, Toplists for Packet Sniffing and Netflow Sensors, as well as sensor aggregation using its built-in Sensor Factory. PRTG Network Monitor includes more than 200 sensor types for all common network services (e.g. PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SSH etc.), allowing users to monitor networks for availability, 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. Monitoring, reporting and notifications can be automatically scheduled at specific times. High Availabiltiy is guaranteed by the innovative failover cluster, and remote probes can be used for easy multi-location monitoring. Network maps can be created which provide users with a unique visual network management tool. 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.
LabTech for Managed Service Providers is a one of a kind solution that combines remote technical support with inventory, client, and technician management at competitive price. Improve productivity and efficiency by consolidating support ticketing, time tracking, monitoring and remote control into one application. No client network configuration is necessary eliminating the setup and maintenance of a monitored network infrastructure.The Control Center offers complete control over any system that is running the System Monitor. Display the inventory data and send commands from the Control Center without user interaction. All inventory data is updated on a regular schedule or can be sent on demand. Connect directly to the users desktop with built-in VNC or other(RDP,PCanywhere,etc).
Track jobs with complete support ticketing and record time by entering data only once. Export time to standard programs with XML/CSV Support. Integrates with Microsofts CRM, Visio and Outlook. Version 1.7 adds active directory Push Support, XP Theameing and improved visual display, Custom commands and Extra Fields for computers added.
EventSentry is an affordable yet flexible real-time log, system and network monitoring suite. You can receive event log alerts through a variety of notifications (like email, pager) and our filtering engine supports advanced features such as thresholds, day/time settings, summaries, timers, recurring schedules and more. EventSentry also helps companies meet the requirements of SOX, HIPAA, PCI and more through event log consolidation. With EventSentry you can consolidate events to a central database (many database type including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are supported) and create a variety of reports with the web-based reporting component. EventSentry uses reliable agents which monitor your machines without any impact on performance. Agents ensure that your systems are monitored in realtime regardless of network connectivity. Additionally, EventSentry also monitors services, disk space, performance, software/hardware, NTP and file checksums. EventSentry's compliance tracking feature normalizes Windows security events and provides insightful tracking information about Active Directory, application usage and logon activity. Network devices can be monitored through Syslog, SNMP and heartbeat checks.