Network monitoring conventionally entails observing a network's bandwidth usage in order to identify areas of congestion or to analyze equipment or application issues. Nagios and MRTG are powerful, no-cost monitoring utilities that run under Linux and can be helpful to understand mixed-platform environments where UNIX and MS Windows both operate. Progent's network integration consultants can show you how to deploy each of these tools to tune and repair your infrastructure.
Nagios Monitoring System
The Nagios network monitoring system is a host and service monitor that runs with Linux or a UNIX variant. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services you request using external plug-ins which return status information to Nagios. When problems are detected, the Nagios can generate notifications to management contacts in a variety of ways such as e-mail, instant messaging, or SMS. Current status information, historical logs, and analysis reports can be examined using the web.
Key capabilities of the Nagios monitor include:
MRTG
MRTG Graphical Traffic Load Monitor is an Open Source utility to monitor the bandwidth utilization on your network. Powered by MS Windows or Linux and most UNIX platforms, MRTG reads the traffic counters of network routers and generates web-accessible graphs which provide a live intuitive representation of this data.
Multi Router Traffic Grapher permits you to track the bandwidth in and out of any SNMP-enabled network device. This includes processors, routers, and switches. You can utilize the displayed data to identify system trouble spots.
Type of information you are able to depict with MRTG include:
Contact Progent about Network Monitoring Help
Progent's network monitoring consultants are experienced in operating a number of network monitoring tools that can help you to repair or tune your network infrastructure. To get network monitoring expertise, phone Progent at
Progent's Consulting Services for UNIX Networks
Progent's UNIX consulting services offer small businesses and software developers help with administering and servicing UNIX/Linux/Mac-based systems that can operate alongside Microsoft environments. Progent provides your organization contact with UNIX support professionals, certified Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security experts accredited by CISM. This broad range of knowledge gives your company a convenient single source to help your business to create and support a secure and dependable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that incorporates Microsoft technology with leading variants of UNIX such as:
Apple macOS and OS X ,
Sun Solaris,
IBM AIX Open UNIX,
HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX),
BSD,
SCO UNIX and
SGI/Irix or important Linux distributions such as
RedHat,
SUSE Linux,
Debian GNU/Linux and
CentOS,
Ubuntu Linux,
Mandriva,
PCLOS,
fedora, and
Gentoo Linux.