Top 10 Best Network Management Software
Review of the Top Network Management Software
In this Scrutinizer review: the basic topics of a NetFlow (and other flows) collector and reporter.
The name Scrutinizer is carefully chosen, according to the merriam-webster translation it means: to examine (something) carefully especially in a critical way.
This review will be updated October 2019
What to expect in this PRTG review?
Note: this review will be updated soon (next update:end 2019)
Version tested: 18.1.38
PRTG is a network and systems monitor with an extensive number of sensors types. It does a lot more out of the box than just PING and SNMP. It is aimed at SMB and entry level MSP’s. Typical between 50 and 1.000 devices.
In this PRTG review the following topics:
In the world of network and systems monitoring, every vendor enters the market from its own origin. This could be Linux, Windows, networks or DCIM.
In this article we provide an “Overview NetFlow software tools” available on the market. This includes paid (commercial tools) and open source NetFlow tools. There are also free NetFlow tools that are used as a bait to link to a commercial tool.
We will be covering a blog post on event log management. This is an announcement where some key systems like splunk, eventsentry, graylog and more will be discussed.
It will also look into the log manager from SolarWinds. Besides the SIEM tool (LEM), and the Kiwi syslog system, SolarWinds will release a new product that hooks into the SolarWinds Orion platform.
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In the NetFlow SolarWinds versus Plixer review, a structural approach has been applied to remove all the (marketing and technical) smoke.
If you are going to look into NetFlow solutions, you will be overwhelmed by all the marketing material, sales and other (technical) Buzz. How to make a good selection?
In this SolarWinds Orion NPM review we have tested version 11.5 and 12.01; The latest version is 12.1
Orion NPM has all the traditional architecture components that we would expect from a network performance management system. A Polling engine, Alerting Engine, Webserver, Reporting Engine and a database. It installs on a Windows server and requires IIS.
One of the key benefits (and selling success) of Orion is that it has a flexible (visual) map that can be integrated into the web-console. Drill down of maps is possible.
Cable Management Software is essential for any organisation and is part of a configuration repository.
In theorie: Everything is documented and up to date with a minimum of effort. Everyone who needs acces will have a real time view of the configuration. Projects (that will claim resources) are visible in the system as reserved (space).
In practice: In a large organisation, every local administrator probably will have his own set of documentation (spreadsheets and diagrams).
The Statseeker review: A network monitoring system that is pretty unknown to a lot of network engineers and IT managers is called Statseeker. What is the position of this network monitoring system in the area of the highly competitive market of network management systems and tools?
In this article: Reducing the noise of false positives in alerts and events, we will give a little overview of how to reduce the overload of alerts and events in the area of network and system monitoring.
Target audience: Larger enterprises with different monitoring systems.
The biggest problem in a large (enterprise) IT infrastructure is bringing logic (read: sense) to all the Events and Alerts (E&A) being generated by the different systems and monitoring systems.
Below a poll from a large network management software vendor
In this Top 10 Network Mapping Software review we will also focus on the relation with Microsoft Visio. Lets be honest: Creating and maintaining Visio diagrams is really time consuming. Especially in large and complex IT environments.
Scope:
In this article we will focus on the commercial Top 10 network mapping software tools with a main focus on Layer 2 mapping. We exclude Layer 3 mapping for the moment.
Outside scope:
Categories:
There are basically two types of categories:
Most entry level Network Mapping Software relies on a few network discovery mechanisms and will create some very basic network diagrams. There are some problems with these entry level software tools. Just to name a few:
