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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of network monitoring systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
Video Comparison of network monitoring systems
Features
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- Product Name
- The name of the software, linked to its Wikipedia article.
- IP SLAs Reports
- Support of Cisco's IP Service Level Agreement mechanism.
- Logical Grouping
- Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors into user-defined groups.
- Trending
- Provides trending of network data over time.
- Trend Prediction
- The software features algorithms designed to predict future network statistics.
- Auto Discovery
- The software automatically discovers hosts or network devices it is connected to.
- Agentless
- The product does not rely on a software agent that must run on hosts it is monitoring, so that data can be pushed back to a central server. "Supported" means that an agent may be used, but is not mandatory. An SNMP daemon does not count as an agent.
- SNMP
- Able to retrieve and report on SNMP statistics.
- Syslog
- Able to receive and report on Syslogs.
- Plugins
- Architecture of the software based on a number of 'plugins' that provide additional functionality.
- Triggers/Alerts
- Capable of detecting threshold violations in network data, and alerting the administrator in some form.
- WebApp
- Runs as a web-based application.
- No: There is no web-based frontend for this software.
- Viewing: Network data can be viewed in a graphical web-based frontend.
- Acknowledging: Users can interact with the software through the web-based frontend to acknowledge alarms or manipulate other notifications.
- Reporting: Specific reports on network data can be configured by the user and executed through the web-based frontend.
- Full Control: ALL aspects of the product can be controlled through the web-based frontend, including low-level maintenance tasks such as software configuration and upgrades.
- Distributed Monitoring
- Able to leverage more than one server to distribute the load of network monitoring.
- Inventory
- Keeps a record of hardware and/or software inventory for the hosts and devices it monitors.
- Platform
- The platform (Coding Language) on which the tool was developed/written.
- Data Storage Method
- Main method used to store the network data it monitors.
- License
- License released under (e.g. GPL, BSD license, etc.).
- Maps
- Features graphical network maps that represent the hosts and devices it monitors, and the links between them.
- Access Control
- Features user-level security, allowing an administrator to prevent access to certain parts of the product on a per-user or per-role basis.
- IPv6
- Supports monitoring IPv6 hosts and/or devices, receiving IPv6 data, and running on an IPv6-enabled server. Supports communication using IPv6 to the SNMP agent via an IPv6 address.
Maps Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
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See also
- Data Cap Integrity Act
Source of the article : Wikipedia