IPHost Network Monitor
Developer(s) | Itelsib |
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Stable release | IPHost Network Monitor 3.5 build 8152 / Sep 2014 |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, or Windows Server 2003, 2008 (32bit and 64bit versions) |
Available in | English |
Type | Network management system |
License | Freeware and Commercial |
Website | IPHost Network Monitor |
IPHost Network Monitor is a network monitoring tool for Microsoft Windows. This software is for availability and performance monitoring of web sites and servers, intranet/internet applications, mail servers, database servers, and other network resources. Standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) can be used to monitor performance and other server parameters (Unix/Linux/Mac/Windows) and network equipment such as routers, printers and UPSs.Any performance counters on Windows servers and workstations can be monitored via WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). Other supported protocols are: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, ODBC, PING, and others. Native support for Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Server databases.
Overview
IPHost Network Monitor is used to monitor Windows and Unix based networks, availability and performance characteristics of different web applications, servers and network equipment . IPHost Network Monitor uses multi-functional alerting system which provides notifications by means of SMS,e-mail and instant messengers. Monitoring reports can be easily viewed through a web interface for any period of time.
IPHost Network Monitor provides more than 20 monitoring methods and more than 10 alerting technologies. The monitoring tool checks not only the availability of a resource, but also its performance and operability.
IPHost Monitor add-on product called Web Transaction Monitor is intended for end-to-end monitoring of e-commerce web sites (internet shops, auctions, web portals) and different types of web applications .
IPHost Network Monitor software is available in several editions: Basic, Professional and Enterprise. Basic edition has different set of features and limited to 100 monitors. Professional edition is available with 500 or 1000 monitors. Professional 1000 edition includes 5 Remote Network Agents. Enterprise edition comes with unlimited number of monitors and agents.
Main features
Alerting Notifications
The program provides a variety of alert types to notify a user about network resource problems and other issues. The most popular alert types are sending email,SMS,pop-up window,sending ICQ or AOL message,playing sound and setting SNMP value.
Distributed Monitoring
IPHost Network Monitor can monitor distributed networks with the help of Remote Network Agent. This agent can monitor all types of monitors available in IPHost Network Monitor (SNMP, WMI, HTTP, Oracle, PING and many more).
SMS Alert
The most reliable alert (notification method) – connecting phone or GSM modem to computer with IPHost Network Monitor and getting SMS about network issues within a couple of seconds.
Clear Reporting
IPHost Network Monitor provides a set of group and detailed reports and graphs as well as logs.The reports and logs give the possibility to trace the results over a certain period of time.To access the monitoring reports and graphs two methods are used: reports in Windows interface and Web-interface.
Web Transaction
Web Transaction Monitor helps to understand real user experience issues for monitored web applications. Transaction Monitor helps users to check web application availability and performance and it can simulate the whole page sequence required to perform some business operation, for example checkout in online shop.
Network Discovery
The discovery function detects network hosts and identifies networking services on them. IPHost Network Monitor can discover hosts and services for the following protocols: ICMP PING, SNMP, TCP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP(S), FTP, SSH, DNS, and create the following Traffic measurement monitors: SNMP Traffic Speed and Volume and WMI Traffic Speed and Volume.
See also
- Nagios: Popular open source network monitoring system
- Comparison of network monitoring systems
- Network monitoring
- Website monitoring
References
- EC-Council (2009). Computer Forensics: Investigating Network Intrusions and Cyber Crime. Cengage Learning. pp. 5–17. ISBN 9781435483521. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
External links
- IPHost Network Monitor Link for availability and performance monitoring tool web site. 30-day trial available.
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