I've been doing some searches on this topic and read a few threads here as well.I've read about Nagios, OpenNMS, Spiceworld, Cacti, MRTG, (...), but I don't know which one is best for my environment: ...

Lacking budget dollars for new network management tools? SolarWinds says its technology can help. The network monitoring company added to its freeware arsenal with a tool that helps network managers ...

Network traffic monitoring has evolved from a nice-to-have administrative tool into an essential cybersecurity defense mechanism.

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

Auvik: Auvik Atera: Atera Spiceworks Network Monitor: Spiceworks OpenNMS: OpenNMS NetCrunch: NetCrunch NinjaOne: NinjaOne Pulseway: Pulseway LogicMonitor: LogicMonitor Small business owners cannot ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. A network outage could cost North American ...

Customizable Orchestrator dashboard to check the state of the network. EdgeConnect provides a customizable top-level view of the network with a dashboard view of appliance health, application ...

Do you mean to host or monitor? I agree it's a lot easier to run on *nix as the host, but I'm monitoring Windows Server machines with no agent required aside from the ...