Comparison of network monitoring systems: Difference between revisions

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! Name

! IP SLA Reportsreports

! Logical Groupinggrouping

! Trending

! Trend Predictionprediction

! Auto Discoverydiscovery

! Agentless

! [[Simple Network Management Protocol|SNMP]]

! [[Syslog]]

! Plugins

! Triggers / Alertsalerts

! [[Management information base|MIB]] Compilercompiler

! [[Web application|WebAppapp]]

! Distributed Monitoringmonitoring

! Inventory

! Platform

! Data Storagestorage Methodmethod

! License

! [[Network mapping|Maps]]

! Access Controlcontrol

! [[IPv6]]

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=== Legend ===

; Product Namename : The name of the software, linked to its Wikipedia article.

; IP SLAs Reportsreports : Support of Cisco's [[Service Assurance Agent|IP Service Level Agreement]] mechanism.

; Logical Groupinggrouping : Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors into user-defined groups.

; Trending : Provides trending of network data over time.

; Trend Predictionprediction : The software features algorithms designed to predict future network statistics.

; Auto Discoverydiscovery : 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 [[Simple Network Management Protocol|SNMP]] daemon does not count as an agent.

; SNMP : Able to retrieve and report on [[SNMP]] statistics.

; Syslog : Able to receive and report on [[Syslog]]s.

; Plugins : Architecture of the software based on a number of 'plugins' that provide additional functionality.

; Triggers /Alerts alerts : Capable of detecting threshold violations in network data, and alerting the administrator in some form.

; MIB compilter : Able to read [[Management information base|MIB]] data, to quickly understand what resources are being managed.

; WebAppWeb app : 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.

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:* 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 Monitoringmonitoring : 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 Storagestorage Methodmethod : 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 Controlcontrol]] : 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.

==See also==

*[[Data Cap Integrity Act]]

==References==