Do you mean to host or monitor? I agree it's a lot easier to run on *nix as the host, but I'm monitoring Windows Server machines with no agent required aside from the ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

In contrast to Zenoss Core and Hyperic HQ, GroundWork Open Source’s free-for-the-download open source network monitoring and management product, called GroundWork Monitor, is quite basic and lacking ...

Auvik: Auvik Atera: Atera Spiceworks Network Monitor: Spiceworks OpenNMS: OpenNMS NetCrunch: NetCrunch NinjaOne: NinjaOne Pulseway: Pulseway LogicMonitor: LogicMonitor Small business owners cannot ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. A network outage could cost North American ...

I've been doing some searches on this topic and read a few threads here as well.I've read about Nagios, OpenNMS, Spiceworld, Cacti, MRTG, (...), but I don't know which one is best for my environment: ...