PRTG 7 Network Monitoring Software

I came across with archive news and found that on the 15th of July the Paessler, a world leader in network monitoring tools, announced the availability of the latest version of Paessler Router Traffic Grapher, PRTG Network Monitor version 7. The new solution provides systems administrators and IT managers with an easy, cost effective way to ensure network availability.

The newly architected software includes enhanced features to automate network monitoring and reporting tasks and leverage best practices for configuration and analysis. For example, the new Auto-Pilot feature constantly scans networks segments for new devices, automatically determines types of devices and configures appropriate set of sensors for those devices, saving time and resources for administrators responsible for large networks. Pre-configured device templates provide recommended alarm and warning limits for many standard devices to help administrators save time and reduce configuration errors.

Freeware and Free Trial versions of all products are available at http://www.paessler.com/prtg/download.

Free Network Monitoring Tools

Dear readers, last post i mentioned about Dotcom Monitor network monitoring service. And i forgot to say that they had FREE accounts to monitor your websites or entire network. So now you don't need to pay for the network monitoring tools. Just register at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/sign-up.asp and choose "Life Time Lite I" package. When you done you will be asked to place a text link or a banner at your website to start monitoring it for free. That is it :)

Those who doesn't want to pay for the network monitoring service now can register for free. If you are ready to get all features of network monitoring tools you can always upgrade your account at any time.

Network Monitoring

The growing complexity of today's IP networks demands professional monitoring and management tools to keep tabs on the state of the network and address problems as they crop up. Network monitoring products which track the availability of distributed devices and systems can be delivered as appliances or software and often use standard protocols such as SNMP to poll devices for their status. Monitoring tools are typically passive, in that they don't take automated actions to resolve a problem. Instead, these products can send e-mail notifications or otherwise alert IT staff when thresholds are missed, devices become unresponsive, or various failure modes are sensed. Network management tools provide more active capabilities and encompasses higher-level functions than network monitoring. For example network management tools allow users to track IP addresses, configure devices and systems, do capacity planning and manage network performance.

Need The Right Network Monitoring Service?

When you are in the internet business you have probably asked yourself about monitoring your service. Or you faced speed and uptime problems with your server, scripts and hardware. From this point you should think about service wich will monitor your network. I think many businessmen had such experience i described before.

So there are many network monitoring services. Some of them are free, some are paid. Free network monitoring services usually ask to place their logo and a link to their main website to get high rankings in search engines. Free services are always limited. You can not use all features to monitor your network. And usually in some months you will change your free subscription to paid.

Paid network monitoring services like Dotcom Monitor offers a ful range of network monitoring tools. Just take a look: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server monitoring, Video Streming Monitoring, POP3 and SMTP monitoring, DNS monitoring, port monitoring, UDP monitoring and etc.

Why do I write about Dotcom Monitor? I signed up for paid subscription 3 years ago. And i found it very helpful for my business. I manage VPS server and some websites located on shared hosting platforms. My VPS are down twice or more time in a month because of overloading... There is no reason to change it to more expensive one because it happens as i told 2-3 times in a months. Being registered with Dotcom Monitor I get down alerts by sms and email in time. So it takes 10-15 minutes to restart my VPS and bring it back to life :)

So my example can be very descriptive and the reason to start monitor your websites now. Hope you will save your uptime in many times and as a result your income (profit) too.