Network Monitoring

LANguard allows you to not only scan your network, but do it from a Hackers perspective. It will identify all machines on your network, their Netbios info, open ports, shares and much more. LANguard Network Scanner can also display installed hotfixes and scan for known security issues - providing you with a web link to more information if any are found. It includes a large database of common vulnerabilities, including CGI, FTP, registry exploits and more.

NetVizor is a powerful network surveillance tool, that allows you to monitor your entire network from one centralized location. It enables you to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PCs on a network. NetVizor combines real-time remote surveillance, administration, and individual user monitoring and can record keystrokes, web/email activity, application activity, documents viewed, screenshots and much more. All logs are store on the central server and a detailed report can be viewed from a browser interface.

ServersCheck Monitoring is a tool for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability. It can monitor up to 50 devices, using any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc.) and also perform database checks (ODBC, Oracle, MySQL), trap SNMP values (disk space, free memory, CPU usage etc.), verify content served from a web server and check NT services and process availability. In addition to regular network devices, the program can also can monitor environmental devices like temperature, humidity, flooding. If problems are detected, ServersCheck will alert you via SMS, pager, e-mail, network message, HTTP post or MSN message. With the optional Alert IVR module you can even call the server using any phone to acknowledge received alerts and let other users know that you are working on the problem. ServersCheck Monitoring Software runs as a local service and is administrated via a browser based interface. Additional features include alerts and graph output for long-term statistics tracking.

CommView for WiFi is a special edition of CommView designed for capturing and analyzing network packets on wireless 802.11 a/b/g networks. It gathers information from the wireless adapter and decodes the analyzed data. In addition, it lets you see the list of network connections and vital IP statistics and examine individual packets. Packets can be decrypted utilizing user-defined WEP keys and are decoded down to the lowest layer, with full analysis of the most widespread protocols. The captured packets can be saved to log files for future analysis. CommView provides several filter options, that allow to drop unnecessary packets and limit capture to essential information. Additional features include configurable alarms, pie chart statistics, import/export, packet search and full decoding of most protocols. CommView for WiFi requires you to replace your wireless network card driver - the monitoring computer will be in a passive mode and not be able to connect to the network, other than for packet monitoring. It should be installed on a dedicated machine or secondary network card.

Global Network Inventory is a software and hardware inventory system that can be used as an audit scanner in an agent-free and zero deployment environments. It can audit remote workstations and network appliances, including network printers, hubs and other devices. The program requires only administrative access rights if used for on-demand auditing, and it can also be deployed as an agent to perform regular audits initiated through the domain login script. You can scan computers by IP range or domain or based on a host file and fully customize the items to be audited. The available auditing options include various system information groups, installed software, services, user lists, shares, startup programs and much more. Global Network Inventory can export the scan results to HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, or text formats, and also send reports via email. The price includes a license for up to 25 IP addresses, extra licenses to cover additional addresses can be purchased at any time if required.

Advanced Host Monitor is a system management tool that can monitor hundreds or thousands of servers or network devices using 60 different test methods, including ping, retrieve an URL, check the available disk space, check integrity of your files and web site, test your SQL server, and more. If a device does not respond, it can take a pre-defined action that includes sound warning, email notification, pager or mobile phone notification, execute external programs, remote shutdown/reboot and more. In addition program can also generate a log file that can be configured to suit your needs. Additional features include Log Analyzer to illustrate information for each tested host and collect statistical information, as well as a HML Manager, Web Service, Telnet Service, Remote Monitoring Agents (for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris) and other utilities. Advanced Host Monitor is also available as Lite($99), Standard ($175) or Professional ($350) edition.

GFI LANguard S.E.L.M. performs event log based intrusion detection and network-wide event log management. It archives & analyses the event logs of all network machines and alerts you in real time to security issues, attacks and other critical events. GFI LANguard S.E.L.M. s intelligent analysis means you do not need to be an Event Guru to be able to: Monitor users attempting to access secured shares and confidential files; Monitor critical servers and create alerts for specific events and conditions occurring on your network; Back up and clear event logs automatically on remote machines; Detect attacks using local user accounts; and much more!

Multiple Interface Watcher (MIW) enables network administrators to graph the utilization of up to 20 different network interfaces. The data is requested from the devices using SNMP and percentage values are calculated and displayed in the graphs. The devices are loaded via a config file, and it provides options to customize the displayed values and polling intervals.

Server Supervisor enables administrators to monitor the availability and performance of various network resources, ranging from web and database servers to local workstations. It offers a multi-user web interface to configure monitors, set up alerts, generate reports and analyze statistics from any web browser. Server Supervisor supports more than 20 network monitors like Ping, FTP and HTTP as well as database queries (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and WMI or SNMP checks. It offers a variety of alert options that allow you to automatically notify specific personal in case of problems. These include email alerts, SMS, instant messenger notifications and command line actions. Other features include an integrated scheduler for periodic checks, emailing of HTML reports, customizable message templates and more.

WebWatchBot is a monitoring and analysis software for web sites and IP devices including Ping, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, Port, and DNS checks. It provides in-depth monitoring and alerting functionality as well as tools to analyze and visualize historical data with real-time charting and graphs. Additional features include an option to run as a Windows Service, customizable 3D charts with print support, SQL database storage, and more.

Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a complete networking utilities package that includes a wide range of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring and more. You can discover network services and check them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints with their associated process, discover NetBios names, audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces and more. The program also includes real-time network packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning, password auditing, IP address lookup and more than 35 network tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining access to machines, DNS and WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator and intrusion detection based on security events log. Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall, this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low price.

Internet Server Monitor enables network administrators to monitor web servers and services for availability, and get notified when problems occur. The program offers alerts via email, message box, sound, Syslog or EvenLog entry, as well as SMS (ClickaTel). Internet Server Monitor can run as Windows Service and supports HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Ping, POP3, TCP and SQL Server monitors, each with individual configuration options. You can schedule the monitors to run every X minutes, or daily, weekly or monthly intervals. Monitors can be organized into groups and you can review the history for each monitored device.

SolarWinds ipMonitor provides availability monitoring for all your applications, servers, and network devices. It comes complete with a built-in web server and database to keep track of monitoring results. The program can quickly discover IP-based network devices and automatically recommend monitoring settings for each device, without the need for manual configuration. You can configure a variety of checks, including monitoring of Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server, SMTP, and more. SolarWinds ipMonitor is managed via a modern browser interface, that is password protected and can be accessed from anywhere on the network. Other features include support for SNMP and WMI, end-user experience monitoring, customizable reports, alerts (email, SMS, Net send etc.) and more.

SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer (formerly Softperfect Network Sniffer) is a protocol analyzer for analyzing, debugging, maintaining and monitoring local network and Internet connections. It captures and analyzes the data passing through your network connection, and represents it in a readable form. The program completely decodes all the major protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, as well as top-level protocols including HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP,FTP and others. The program includes detailed filter options that allow you to limit the capture based on IP address, port, data content and more. The program also includes a packet builder, which allows advanced users to assemble and send network packets, from scratch or based on captured data.

SoftPerfect Traffic Meter (formerly Traffic Calculator) is a tool for targeted monitoring of network traffic that displays real-time statistics in a graphic or numeric report. You can set up filters to target soecific traffic based on port and IP address or range. Reports can be generated for daily, weekly or monthly periods and exported to Excel, HTML, CSV and RTF formats.

Atelier Web Ports Traffic Analyzer is a network traffic sniffer and logger that allows you to monitor all internet and network traffic on your PC and view the actual content of the packets, showing you exactly what was transmitted and to where. This includes all traffic initiated by software products, web sites etc. The capability to audit what flows in and out of every piece of software is critical for security aware users. Atelier Web Ports Traffic Analyzer providesReal-time mapping of ports to processes (applications and services) and shows the history since boot time of every TCP, UDP or RAW port opened through Winsock. Optionally, AWPTA can also log (up to 500mb) all traffic since the last boot to a file.

Intellipool Network Monitor is an easy to use, browser based network monitor that can help you to monitor a variety of different protocols and services on LAN or internet machines. It runs as a service and consumes minimal system resources. The modern interface is web based and all you need is a device with a web browser to control Intellipool Network Monitor from the SSL protected web interface. Sentry is structured into actions, objects and agents as well as configurable operators and groups. Monitoring agents include RDP 5.0(Windows Terminal Server), ICA (Citrix Metaframe 1.7-1.8), ODBC, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, TFTP, IMAP4 TCP Port scan (Firewall test), SSH2, Ping, CPU load, disk space and many others. The program is able to log errors and informational messages to XML file, Syslog, Windows Eventlog or an ODBC database as well as graphical display graphs. Notification options include SMS, NotePage, PageGate and Email. Intellipool Network Monitor is easy to setup and comes with a handy AutoScan feature that can scan the device to check which monitoring options are available, so you can quickly add a variety of device specific checks.

CommTraffic is a network utility for collecting, processing, and displaying traffic and network utilization statistics for network connections, including LAN and dial-up. It shows traffic and network utilization statistics for each computer in the segment. The software provides a customizable interface, with an optional tray icon menu that displays general network statistics. You can also generate reports that reflect the network traffic volume and Internet connection expenses (if any). CommTraffic supports virtually any rate plan your ISP might use, such as the one based on connection time, traffic volume, time of the day, and other measures. You can set alarms, that will inform you when certain criteria (e.g. amount of traffic, expenses) are reached. A configuration wizard will guide you through the setup and automatically detect your network or connection settings.

Servers Alive is a feature rich network monitor. It can monitor any WinSock service (TCP:FTP, HTTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, DNS,... and UDP:Radius and Quake II etc.), ping a host/machine, check if an NT Service is running (which can be restarted by Servers Alive), check if an NT process is running, monitor the available disk space on a remote machine, check for the correct content of a webpage, check a MS SQL server, check an Oracle database and so on. The program offers a variety of notification options including SMS, email, pager and even ICQ or MSN Messenger notifications. It comes with an optional built-in web server to serve a status page, ftp upload, escalation schemes and much much more. Servers Alive can run as an NT service.

Active Network Monitor is a tool for the day-to-day monitoring of computers in the network. It allows Systems Administrators to gather information from all machines in the network without installing server-side applications on these computers and allows you to view, store and compare the received data. You can select from a variety of items to be scanned, including installed applications, hotfixes, hardware resources, OS information, computer information and more. The results are very in depth, however they are displayed in individual windows for each scan and can be very hard to manage if you included many items.

TCP Viewer captures and displays all data that is transferred between two processes communicating through TCP/IP. The processes can be running on the same machine or different machines located anywhere on a network or the Internet. TCP Viewer can run on a machine different than the machine(s) that the two processes are running on. The process that connects to the other process is the client. The process that receives the connection is the server. The client must be configured to connect to TCP Viewer instead of the server. This involves providing the client with the name or IP address of the machine that TCP Viewer is running on and the port number that TCP Viewer has established to listen for connections. TCP Viewer must be configured with a port number to establish. If 0 is provided, TCP Viewer will ask the OS for an available port number. TCP Viewer must also be be provided with the name or IP address of the machine that the server is running on and the port number that the server has established.

IE HTTP Analyzer is an add-in for Internet Explorer, that allows you to capture HTTP/HTTPS traffic in real-time. It displays a wide range of information, including Header, Content, Cookies, Query Strings, Post data, redirection URLs and more. It also provides cache information and session clearing, as well as HTTP status code information and several filtering options. A useful developer tool for performance analysis, debugging and diagnostics. IE HTTP Analyzer integrates into the lower part of your IE browser window and can be opened/closed from the IE toolbar.

Network Eagle is a network monitoring program, that supports Ping checks, HTTP checks, Database checks (with SQL query verification), disk space checks and more. It can also notify you of Eventlog entries and check NT services/processes for their status. Advanced users can write their own script checks using JS and VBS or any other script provider like ActivePerl or Active Python installed on your system. In case any check returns an error, Network Eagle provides several alert options, including email, Eventlog, sound notification, custom scripts and more. It also notifies with a popup from the system tray and keeps long term statistics for failures, overall downtime per server and more.

LinkLogger (Linksys non-Protocol Logging Models) is a router and firewall logging and reporting tool. It enables you to monitor traffic in detail and set alarms for specific IP addresses, or ports such that you can be alerted the instant that traffic occurs. IN addition, due to email capabilities you can have Link Logger email you remotely the alerts and alarms it detects. The program provides full traffic reporting and graphing capabilities allowing you to visualize network traffic at your router/firewall and even break it down on a system by system basis. LinkLogger automatically installs and configures itself and works "out of the box".

LogMeister is a universal log reader with customizable monitoring and notification features. It allows you to monitor text logs, Windows EventLogs (local and remote), Windows Firewall logs, as well as RSS Feeds and web site changes. You can apply multiple filters to limit logging to specific entries, set alerts to be notified by popup or email message and more. The interface maintains all tracked logs in an easy-to read display, and further allows you to export selected logs to formatted HTML reports, CSV or XML. The program can harvests log data from computers across your network without the need for additional installations (access privileges required). LogMeister is very flexible and can be used for many purposes, including monitoring of web server log files for specific entries, keyword alerts for monitored RSS feeds, error management across networks, aggregating of monitored log entries and more.

EtherScan Analyzer is a network traffic and protocol analyzer that can capture and analyze all packets over the local network. It decodes all major protocols, including Ethernet, NetBEUI, TCP/IP,and TCP/IP utilities and is capable of reconstructing TCP/IP sessions. Additional features include filtering options (by IP, port, words etc.) and an address book that allows you to maintain a list of names and IP addresses as well as a packet sender.

TracePlus32 Winsock shows you the interaction between your Win32 application and the 32 bit Winsock API with no modifications to your existing program. It includes the Winsock 2 API and RAS and new debugging technology that supports ActiveX and OLE. TracePlus displays the Winsock functions called by your Internet application to access the internet and also displays detailed information including error messages if your application is having trouble communicating with the Internet. The program also offers the option to filter captures based on API classes and function, limit logging to errors only and more.

LinkLogger (Protocol Logging version) is a router and firewall logging and reporting tool. It enables you to monitor traffic in detail and set alarms for specific IP addresses, or ports such that you can be alerted the instant that traffic occurs. In addition, due to email capabilities you can have Link Logger email you remotely the alerts and alarms it detects. The program provides full traffic reporting and graphing capabilities allowing you to visualize network traffic at your router/firewall and even break it down on a system by system basis. LinkLogger automatically installs and configures itself and works "out of the box".

Alchemy Eye is a network and system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager before problems get seriously out of hand. Alchemy Eye offers support for a variety of checks, including NT Event Log, SQL database, Disk space, file existence and a lot more. Of course it can also check the standard HTTP and Ping ports. Actions taken upon server failure also include the optional execution of custom VB scripts or programs, computer restarts and even database queries. The program supports scheduled maintenance, so you won`t be alerted if the outage was scheduled.