What sorts of network monitoring tools are available to netw

What sorts of network monitoring tools are available to network administrators, and what types of information are included in various logs?

Solution

Some of the network monitoring tools which are available to network administrators:

1) IP scanner tools are there : it hepls to detect any network devices connected to it and shared across network.

2) Status monitoring tool : it helps to monitor the status of the system, application, services are up and running.It has features like alerting, event handling etc.

3) Performance monitoring tool : it provides help in automated discovery of events their management, notification of event, perfomance measurements.

4) Network Traffic analyser : It hepls to monitor the networktraffic , troubleshoot network traffic problems and analyse the packets(incoming data)

5) Data analysing tool : It helps in monitoring, gathering and analyzing data from different network sources

Some of the logs that tools would generate are event logs, application logs, statusreports,actionogs etc