The most popular network management tool set

Tool Name:Solarwinds engineer Edition

Www.solarwinds.net

Recommendation reason: Some readers said: "in less than an hour, I downloaded and installed the Authorized Version of solarwinds from the website. Soon, I will be able to prepare a line usage report, and the line usage and basic response time functions are very good. In addition, the data will be saved, this allows me to view data for one week, one month, or one year."

Tool Name:NetwatchKit

Company Name: crannog Software Website: www.crannog-software.com/netwatch.html

Recommendation reason: Some readers think that this software is composed of simple but effective point solutions that surpass all of their larger network management products in terms of use and efficiency. NetFlow monitor is another low-cost solution to solve traffic visibility problems. However, netwatch allows network administrators to create network maps through simple click processes. In addition, such software basically does not require training and maintenance.

 Tool Name:WhatsUp GoldCompany Name: Ipswitch website www.ipswitch.com

Recommendation reason: the user's evaluation of it is very expensive products have a lot of functions, but the price is very low. Another reader said: "We can install software within a few minutes, automatically discover most network devices, and start to send status alarms to our text phones. In addition, we also monitor non-problematic services and web content changes ." Another user also used it to "report the status of a simple service level agreement, so that my users could not resort to frauds in the real number of failures ."

 Tool Name:Etherpeek NX,Sniffer distributed

Company Name: wildpackets, nai website www.wildpackets.comwww.networkassociates.com

Recommendation reason: One reader recommends etherpeek NX 2.0 as a "low-cost, excellent-performance" protocol analyzer. Etherpeek NX 2.0 helps him solve intermittent and complex application problems. Another tool recommended by readers is sniffer distributed from Nai. He felt that if the Toolkit lacked such tools, he would not be able to survive.

 Tool Name:Packeteer packetshaperWww.packeteer.com

Recommendation reason: One reader said: "We are satisfied with the granularity of reports and configurations when used on an application or host. It enables us to find a fully congested 768 K bit/s Wan Link, effectively getting more bandwidth from it ."

Tool Name:NMIS (Network Management Information System)Www.sins.com. au/NMIS/

Recommended reason: it can be used free of charge through the Open Source GPL license and can run on Linux. Some readers say that the support provided by it is "better than anything I get ." Another reason for the popularity of this tool is its user-friendly web interface with a dashboard, "A Brief, hierarchical, and color block display of the status of all my 200 network devices is supported on one page, so that I can easily find the root cause and scope of the problem."

Tool Name:ObserverCompany Name: Network instruments website www.networkinstruments.net

Recommendation reason: this tool has become a choice for readers because it is currently the most powerful and diverse platform.

Tool Name: xsight Company Name: aprisma spectrum website www.aprisma.com

Recommendation reason: Some readers prefer to use the xsight of aprisma spectrum to isolate faults. "using xsight with attention software can solve the alarm issue and send paging requests to others." He also uses CiscoWorks to manage and maintain the firewalls and configurations of their CISCO networks.

Tool Name:MRTGURL: www. mrtg. it

Recommendation reason: according to a reader, MRTG is his favorite. He said: "MRTG is doing a great job in collecting statistics on network bandwidth usage and server monitoring." MRTG is not only free, but also provided through GNU (General Public License.

 Tool Name:Pingplotter,FreepingCompany Name: nessoft, tool4ever

Why pingplotter.comwww.tools4ever.com: pingplotter is a ping and traceroute tool recommended by readers for only $15. Once a problem occurs, the reader starts the program to find out where the problem is. Freeping is another ping tool recommended by readers for free download. One reader said that this tool is "very simple, but very useful in understanding the accessibility of network objects ."

Tool Name:OpenViewCompany Name: HP Website: www.openview.hp.com recommendation reason: HP OpenView is recommended because it can provide "very good and very easy to use images ". Another reason is that "you can program it to do anything you want to do", especially when an error occurs, trigger an alarm through e-mail.

Tool Name:NetscoutCompany Name: netscout website www.netscout.com

Recommendation reason: One reader recommends netscout because it has good fault detection and performance management functions. "Although it is a combination of software and hardware, it can coordinate with most network components (switches and routers, you can understand the running status of an enterprise from a view."

Tool Name:Servers aliveCompany Name: woodstone Website: www. woodstone. Nu/salive/

Recommendation reason: One reader said that it prefers servers alive because it is very simple and can perform network event tasks and status monitoring well. In addition, it is relatively easy to install. He runs a small network and finds that this simple and cheap tool runs very well in his small network environment and can get support through the contact list.

 Tool Name:SNMPc EnterpriseCompany Name: castlerock computing website www.castlerock.com

Recommendation reason: "It is easier to use and cheaper than other big guys," said a user who recommended SNMPc enterprise. Its scalability is amazing. Using its new version makes it easier to manage the network management system itself ." He believes that the only disadvantage of the tool is that it can only run in windows. But you only need to spend a little time getting used to this software package. Once you get used to it, it will be easier to use it.

Tool Name:NexvuCompany Name: nexvu website www.nexvu.com

Recommended reason: Some readers call nexvu "the most interesting tool we have ever used. It can be a performance monitoring tool, protocol analysis tool, rmon probe, and terminal server ...... All these functions are integrated ". As a backup option for probe tools, it is very attractive. In addition, it provides real-time performance reports on the reader's Siebel application system.

Tool Name:Qcheck,ChariotCompany Name: netiq website www.netiq.com

Recommendation reason: When a reader recommends netiq qcheck and chariot, he said that qcheck is a free tool. "It is super simple and can quickly check the network performance between two hosts, it is as good as a troubleshooting tool ". He said his help desk was using this tool. It requires that the endpoint proxy be installed on the tested host. These endpoints are free of charge and can be used by a variety of systems. "I asked to mount such endpoints on every desktop and server in our company, reducing the number of troubleshooting times," he said ." About chariot, he said, Chariot "can perform stress tests on any network we can imagine. It performs well in conceptual design and demonstration. After adding the sniffer plug-in, you can use the actual data to test the network, not to mention its ease of use ." It is important to note that when you hand over this tool to untrained beginners, you must be very careful, because it "can almost put any network into fragments"

I have been using solarwinds engineer edition.

Unfortunately, Sniffer Pro, a required tool for network management, is not mentioned in this article.