Are you a network administrator of your company who take the responsibility of monitoring the performance and security of the whole network? Do you tired of these multifarious and complicated jobs day to day? However, all will become comfortable if you use a network performance monitor. All need we do is to open our network performance monitor application and it will do the rest for us. Now I will show some excellent and popular network performance monitor utilities to you, they are: AggreGate Network Manager, Alchemy Network Monitor, CommView and PRTG Network Monitor. Following are the detailed introductions of them. Come on with me and pick out a favorite one fot you now!

AggreGate Network Manager is an enterprise-grade network/application/performance monitoring platform. It tightly integrates with other smart building management systems, such as physical access control, HVAC, lighting, and time/attenendance control. AggreGate Network Manager is designed for monitoring and configuring different routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, UPS/battery backup, environment sensors, and other network-enabled devices. It monitors network traffic, bandwidth usage, network security/performance, and many other critical parameters. The system has common scalable architecture based on the core of AggreGate Device Management Framework, providing unique abilities for configuring, controlling and monitoring network hosts and processing device data. The system may function in fully automatic mode, allowing the server to make all decisions and notify administrators only when problems arise. Another choice is interactive mode which assumes that operators are constantly monitoring the network using client software. AggreGate is a multi-user environment with role-based access control permissions. It supports all versions of SNMP, including secure SNMP v3, thus allowing the management of heterogeneous multivendor networks. AggreGate monitors the network without any agents, so there is no additional software or hardware to install on devices that need to be monitored. AggreGate Network Manager may easily and tightly integrated with the other AggreGate solutions to build a building/facility control center. The integration allows to manage local network, physical access control, time and attendance, HVAC, lighting, and other smart building systems from a single control room.

Alchemy Network Monitor is a tool to monitor the working of your servers. It can also tell us what`s happening on business critical applications. We get alerts as soon as a problem develops. When a server stops working the monitor can launch external applications and can execute a SQL query too. Detailed logs are maintained. With Alchemy Network Monitor Network Administrators can receive detailed reports on their server`s activity and performance. The administrator then can take steps to balance the server and network load and avoid bottlenecks before they develop. With the network monitor we are able to monitor remote processes on local or remote Windows PCs. Should a process stop on the target computer or memory usage goes out of control we get alerts so that we can take steps to remedy the situation. We can then stop the offending process or even start an external process that can remedy the situation. It is able to start, stop and restart processes on local and remote computers. We can use it in conjunction with the remote process monitoring or separately to start/stop/restart programs on the remote Windows PC`s as the result of another server monitoring. Overall, Alchemy Network Monitor is quite an effective program for monitoring servers and making sure everything works fine by balancing processing and loads on individual servers.

CommView is a program for monitoring network activity capable of capturing and analyzing packets on any Ethernet network. It gathers information about data flowing on a LAN and decodes the analyzed data. With CommView we can see the list of network connections, vital IP statistics, and examine individual packets. IP packets are decoded down to the lowest layer with full analysis of the main IP protocols: TCP, UDP, and ICMP. Full access to raw data is also provided. Captured packets can be saved to log files for future analysis. A flexible system of filters makes it possible to drop packets we don't need or capture only those packets that we wish to capture. CommView is a helpful tool for LAN administrators, security professionals, network programmers, or anyone who wants to have a full picture of the traffic going through one s PC or LAN segment.

PRTG Network Monitor is a network monitoring utility which comes bundled with a host of features, that makes it a really powerful tool. Advanced users will like all the functionality that is available to them. Beginners will like the fact that it is fairly easy and intuitive to use, and also that it looks good. The web-based interface really is one of the high points for this utility, because network monitoring utilities are not usually blessed with nifty interfaces. The software is able to monitor network uptime and downtime; it performs packet sniffing with decoding and presents these for viewing and analysis; advanced analysis and reporting features are part of this package; and a number of graphical utilities for visual presentation of the collected monitoring information. The following most common data acquisition methods are supported in addition to packet sniffing: SNMP queries (and downloading of MIBs), WMI, and NetFlow. A host of supported network services and protocols: SMTP, PING, HTTP, POP/POP3, FTP, PPP, etc. Outages are reported automatically via email, SMS, paging and other available means. Reporting functions include those for performance, reliability analysis, SLA validation and more. The free edition allows the monitoring of up to 10 sensors. Overall, PRTG Network Monitor is a wonderful tool, a host of features and even an attractive interface.

Are you satisfied with these network performance monitor software above? What are you waiting for? Download an interested one and try it at once!