I've been doing some searches on this topic and read a few threads here as well.I've read about Nagios, OpenNMS, Spiceworld, Cacti, MRTG, (...), but I don't know which one is best for my environment: ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

Network taps can function as an access port for any monitoring device used to collect in-line data, including intrusion detection, protocol analysis, denial of service and remote monitoring tools.

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. A network outage could cost North American ...

Do you mean to host or monitor? I agree it's a lot easier to run on *nix as the host, but I'm monitoring Windows Server machines with no agent required aside from the ...