Recommend a good network management software [friendly Pinger] to network administrators

To improve network management efficiency, it is necessary for us to generate a convenient and intuitive network topology map for our local area network in a timely manner. This network topology map is cleverly used, we can quickly find the source of network faults. Now, I will take "friendly Pinger", a useful network management tool, as an example to describe how to quickly generate a network topology for my local network, the network topology helps improve network management efficiency.

Create a network topology by yourself

In order to use the network topology to efficiently manage the local area network, we first need to compare the local area network and use the friendly Pinger tool to draw the local area network topology. When creating a network topology, We need to download the friendly Pinger Installation tool from the Internet.ProgramAnd then install the program to your workstation System in the correct way. After the program is installed, double-click the friendly Pinger shortcut icon on the desktop of the workstation system, open the main operation interface of the program. Since the friendly Pinger tool already comes with a topology plotting program, we just need to simply use this program to quickly depict the local area network topology of the Unit successfully:

First, go to the main interface of the friendly Pinger Program (as shown in ).

Click the "file" option in the menu bar and execute the "new" command from the pop-up drop-down menu. A new network topology template appears in front of us, next, we only need to add network devices in the blank template area, and connect the relevant network devices according to the actual situation of the LAN.

The friendly Pinger program has built in the most common device modules. For example, you can add vrouters, servers, switches, workstations, and other devices to the network topology. Each time a network device is added, the friendly Pinger program automatically pops up the parameter settings window for this device. We must set parameters for the corresponding device according to the actual situation, and then click "OK, this network device appears in the network topology template.

For example, I want to plot the network topology of my local network based on the actual situation of my local network. First, right-click the blank network topology template, right-click the "add device" option from the pop-up menu, and we can see many network device options from the lower menu that appears; because the network device I want to add is a web server, I select the "Internet server" menu option from the lower menu, then, the parameter Settings dialog box for the server is displayed on the System screen.

Click the "type" label in the Settings dialog box to go To the tag settings page, as shown in.

In the address text box on this page, enter the IP address used by the Web server. For example, we can enter "10.192.168.11". If the server has a backup IP address, we can also enter this backup IP address in the "Additional addresses" text box. Then we need to set the external communication port used by the web server in the "Port" setting item, because the Web server uses the "HTTP 80" port by default, you can click the drop-down button next to the "Port" setting item, select the HTTP 80 project from the drop-down list.

Next, click the "Description" tab. On the corresponding tab page that appears later, we can directly obtain a proper name for the web server in the "name" text box, the name is displayed in the network topology. After setting the preceding parameters, click "OK" and the Web Server icon will appear in the network topology. In the same way, we can add other devices in the local LAN to the network topology one by one. However, when the network device types are different, we may set the parameters slightly differently, we must correctly configure the IP addresses and other parameters of each device according to the position of the target network device in the LAN environment and the services provided.

After we add all the devices in the LAN to the network topology according to the previous method, our next task is to follow the actual connection conditions of the network devices, connect all devices in the network topology to generate a true network topology.

To connect two devices in the network topology directly by dashes, you only need to right-click the blank area in the network topology template window, run the "add line" command from the shortcut menu that appears, and then click the icons corresponding to the two target network devices that need to be directly connected with the mouse, in this way, you can easily complete network device connection tasks.

Using the same method, we can easily connect all the devices added to the network topology template window. When you need to modify the existing network topology in the future, you only need to first select the unnecessary network devices and click the "Del" button on the keyboard, the target network device can be deleted from the network topology. If a new network device is added to the LAN, we can add it to the network topology according to the previous steps and connect the new device.

Use graphs to improve network management efficiency

After we have worked hard to generate the network topology of the LAN, the next task is naturally how to skillfully use our "Labor achievements" to improve network management efficiency, reduce network management and maintenance workload for yourself.

Compared with the electronic network topology, we can quickly identify network fault nodes without the need for step-by-step troubleshooting, which can effectively improve the efficiency of Network Fault resolution. When we find that a workstation or server in the LAN fails to work normally, how can we quickly determine whether the fault is caused by abnormal operation of the workstation or server, or is it caused by the network connection line or by other exchange devices in the lan?

In this case, we can use the "traceroute" function built in the electronic network topology to quickly find out the source of network faults. For example, once we find that the local web server is not working properly, you can open the electronic network topology of the organization, find the icon corresponding to the target Web server, right-click the icon, and click "ping" from the shortcut menu, trace "/" traceroute "command, then we can see the running status of the Web server Router from the result interface as shown in.

If you find that the delay time for a jump to a vro is relatively long, the vro node must have a problem, and the Web server itself runs normally.

If we want to test whether a workstation is online, we can quickly test the IP address of the target workstation online without manually entering the ping command. For example, to conduct online tests on a workstation on the LAN, we can directly open the electronic network topology of the LAN and right-click the device icon corresponding to workstation, click the "External commands"/"ping" command in the shortcut menu to check whether workstation a is online; obviously, you do not need to remember the IP address of the target workstation when you ping the target workstation using the ping command in the electronic network topology, we do not need to be familiar with the use format of the ping command. This test method will undoubtedly help us improve operation efficiency.

In addition, we can monitor the running status of some important workstations or servers in the LAN in real time based on the electronic network topology to ensure that, in the event of an accident, we are able to know in time and take measures to respond immediately. The friendly Pinger program comes with the alarm function, which can be used to easily monitor the running status of some important workstations or servers.

For example, I hope that if the web server in the LAN cannot provide external information browsing services, the fpinger program can send a sound alarm to us in a timely manner. To achieve this goal, we can right-click the target Web server in the electronic network topology, click the "Notification"/"When goes down" command from the shortcut menu to open the property Setting Dialog Box as shown in.

Select the "Play Sound" project, enter the path of the alarm music file in the "sound file" text box, and click "OK" in the dialog box, in this way, once the web server in the LAN fails to run normally in the future, the fpinger program will automatically send a sound alarm to the network administrator. After hearing the sound alarm prompt, the network administrator can immediately take targeted measures to solve network faults, so that the server can continue to run efficiently.