Network Monitoring - The Ought to Haves
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IT administrators are spoilt for selection when shopping for network monitoring solutions. We have numerous vendors flaunting function sets, pricing sheets, supported vendor list, comparison sheets and so on. on their websites and collaterals. Even though all they are fantastic developments for the seasoned IT administrators, the overkill on technical specifications and marketing ballyhoo can leave the not-so-experienced folks in utter confusion.
Say you might be entrusted with finding a network monitoring answer to replace the several free tools you have been using to handle your small network. How do you go about selecting a remedy? A fantastic start out should be to know what the must-haves are and to make sure you might have it all covered no matter what you lastly end up picking out.
Automatic discovery
To start monitoring and managing your network, you may must import in to the monitoring resolution the particulars with the network devices and servers to be monitored. The network may well look smaller now but it will develop and continue to include new devices from various vendors, so guarantee the network monitoring tool features a vendor-agnostic multi-protocol discovery approach, can auto-discover devices as well as has provisions to perform a 'forced' discovery of a brand new device/ imported list of devices.
Smart classification & mapping
Different types of network elements - servers, routers, switches, firewalls and so on., will have different parameters that should be monitored for health and performance. The ability of a network monitoring solution to smartly categorize the devices according to their type and vendor will save one a lot of time during set-up. Another important requirement is being able to make custom maps by logically grouping devices to represent clustered environments or geographically distributed resources.
In-depth performance monitoring
One could easily get lost deciding on what to monitor to ensure 100% availability and top performance from the network. If you've got been using several free tools, a great start off is ensuring the network monitoring resolution covers all that your free tools provided. Availability and basic performance parameters can be monitored using SNMP for most of IT infrastructure, of majority vendors. If your infrastructure consists of a mixture of Windows and Linux-based servers, WMI/ CLI (Telnet/ SSH connections) based monitoring capabilities provide an easy means of in-depth performance monitoring for these devices. Ability to monitor traffic flows is also an essential that brings you insights into how your network bandwidth is being consumed, a should for troubleshooting network slowness.
Security management
Even though security for the company's network and systems is a critical requirement and deserves the care and attention of another full-fledged team, it is important that as an IT admin, one at least knows when fraudulent access attempts are made. By monitoring system log messages that involve Windows Event Logs, Syslogs on Unix-based devices, Firewall logs and so on., you get to easily know of failed log-ins, failed attempts to secure files, account lock-outs and so forth.. An added advantage is if the network monitoring resolution can extend its security monitoring capabilities by way of plug-ins or third party utilities.
Intelligent alerting
Though investigating on alerting features, a must-have is triggering of emails attached with relevant details that can help you quickly correct network glitches. Other value features incorporate triggering and running remediation scripts or programs, provisions for escalation of alarms and setting of device dependencies to prevent those avalanches of alerts. If your company appreciates workforce mobility then you will also want to check out if the network monitoring tool can alert via SMS and be accessed via smartphones. Latest along these lines is OpManager, a network monitoring software that even allows managing of alarms via Twitter Direct Messages.
Scalability & Reliability
Today you could have 50 servers and the very next day you could be managing 100 servers on the company adding a new branch. For the buck spent, it is wise to ensure you get a answer that can handle 5x the load it should presently take care of. Other questions if your company is very serious on having round-the-clock monitoring: Can the monitoring remedy alert if the server on which it is hosted fails? Can a redundant failover server take up monitoring tasks and revert when the main server is back up?
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