an application to monitor the network ?

GOZCU

Hello all, I wonder what do you use to monitor the network, especially QoS. any easy solution ? Solarwinds and etc are expensive tools. I do want to monitor what may cause the ping latency ?


P.S i have used Nagios, but here what i am looking for an easy and quick solution for a very small network. I do wonder what people use out there

MAC_Addy

SolarWinds works really well for QoS and network monitoring in general.

lsud00d

Nagios isn't a quick, easy, and FREE solution for a very small network..?!

Edit: FWIW on-site we use Groundwork, it's an open source network app wrapper and I believe they have a free version you can download here: http://www.gwos.com/downloads/overview/

We use the Nagios, Cacti and Weathermap components but it also comes with NeDi and NTop.

networker050184

I think Nagios is about the best free thing out there.

undomiel

I'll second Nagios here, albeit you need to have the time to give it the attention it needs to get the best results from it.

onesaint

Another vote for Nagios.

You can run NSclient++ on your windows clients, run checks with good old SNMP, or a plethora of other ways. We're in process of removing groundworks from our Nagios deployment (previous admin's work). Groundworks makes Nagios easy, but is very bloated.

You can also check out ganglia, solarwinds, zenoss, and a bunch more. Have a look here for a decent list.

sratakhin

I tried different free tools but none of them was as easy to set up and use as Solarwinds.