Network Monitoring Software Reviews and Downloads

XArp

XArp has been desinged for the sole purpose of detecting ARP attacks. As such it is a highly specialized program intended for users and administrators. The detection mechanism is based on two techniques: inspection modules and discoverers. Inspection modules look at each ARP packet, check its correctness and validity in respect to databases they built up. Discoverers actively validate IP-MAC mappings and help to deect attackers actively. XArp helps users to detect ARP attacks and keep their data private. Administrators can use XArp to monitor whole subnets for ARP attacks. Different security levels and fine tuning possibilities allow normal and power user to efficiently use XArp to detect ARP attacks.

NetGong

NetGong is a network monitoring tool that enables you to keep an eye of servers and network devices and be alerted when problems arise. It supports notifications by sound, pop-up dialog, email and file execution. NetGong can monitor devices by ping or connect to a specific port via TCP/UDP. Overall a an easy-to-use monitor with mostly basic features - suitable for home users. NetGong is a sophisticated network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails. It is a powerful personal monitoring product delivering low cost, simplicity of operation, and round-the-clock coverage. There are hundreds of compelling reasons why NetGong is right for you - these are the 5 at the top of the list. Ease of Use. NetGong was and remains today the easiest to use network monitoring tool on the market. Quality. Enormous attention was paid to the software development process. Support. We grant you the highest level of technical service as long as you're using NetGong. Scalability. We cover budgets starting at only $39.95 US/Euro! Affordability. Our prices give you the best value for the money. Main Features Agentless architecture - Allows you to monitor network devices or services without installing an agent on each machine. Comprehensive monitoring - Monitors up to 500 network resources simultaneously. Global settings - Allows quick network resource configuration. Independent parameters - Allows all parameters to be set independently for each network resource. Maintenance mode - Permits you to temporarily disable monitoring of certain resources. Robust alerting - Alerts you to failures using a variety of techniques ranging from audible alarms to third-party software. Alert schedule - Allows you "fine tune" the alerting functions to avoid unnecessary alerting during an extended failure. Failure and recovery alerts - Alerts can be enabled for any combination of failure and recovery notices. Custom alerts - Allows custom alerts to be created for each monitored resource. Test alert configuration - Each alert type can be tested in order to verify that the alert is configured correctly prior to going live. E-mail notification - Allows e-mail notification via SMTP with the server of your choice. Custom messages - Supports keyword values and customized message information. Integrated reporting - Offers real-time and historical reporting capabilities to assist you in tracking network resources availability. HTML report output - Provides reports in HTML format to help keep track of network resources availability in an easy to view list. Remote access - Provides remote access to the monitoring results using a Web browser.

NetGrid Studio

NetGrid Studio gives you an inside look into your internet connection. Internet Service Providers are playing all sorts of games these days with "unlimited" and "always on" network connections, when really that is not the case. Many have also been found to be packet shaping and throttling network connections for certain protocols like Bittorrent. NetGrid Studio is also excellent for parents or small businesses that wish to know how much through-traffic there is on a certain network or computer. NetGrid Studio follows both common and IEC units of measurement. Totals information is gathered with a background service, which allows makes it so you do not have to be logged in to a user in order for NetGrid Studio to monitor your network connection. Features: Ability to create multiple monitoring network grids. Requires minimal system resources and requirements. Gathers network totals data in the background not requiring you to be logged in. Provides clear graphical and text representation of your network connection. In depth totals program to run various reports, including graphs. Stop watch feature to give you the ability to monitor specific time periods. Complies with common and IEC standards. Ability to setup alarms and be notified via email. GMail with SSL support. An advanced network calculator to help with network conversions

Onlineeye Pro

OnlineEye Pro is a network utilities suite that comes with a real-time graphic analyzer to measure upload/download speeds and track historical data. The graph can be customized and also runs in the system tray as dynamic icon, allowing you to keep an eye on internet activity at all times. The program also provides tools to view all current connections, trace connections, view network shares, and more. In addition, it includes an internet dialer, a connection speed measuring tool, a port scanner, timed shutdown and some other tools. OnlineEye Pro can also run in a client/server mode, allowing you to gather statistics on a remote machine. A well featured and inexpensive utility suite for any Internet user.

TheOne SysLog Manager

SysLog Manager is a monitoring solution for professional user. SysLog Manager Pro / Lite is based on internet standard protocol, which is specified by RFC 3164 and RFC 3195. It is being as a SysLog server in order to receive TCP and UDP SysLog messages from any system or network device. After processing by the filtering rules, it will generate alarm message, and send out by email, SMS, SysLog, pager or SNMP. It has Pro and Lite versions. Pro version has more features than Lite version, such as charting, multiple persons to receive alerting messages, scheduling and etc. You can see more details in Feature Matrix section. Key Features: Unlimited IPs with single software license Unlimited access to your SysLog servers Receiving TCP and UDP SysLog messages Run as Window Service SMS alert using SMPP SMS alert using HTTP API SNMP Version 1/2/3 alert Email alert Pager alert using SNPP Filtering rule for incoming SysLog message SysLog alert by forwarding the alert message to your SysLog server Create contact person and group so that specified alert can be sent to these persons or groups Scheduling Charting and reporting tools

Network Eagle Monitor Pro

This program monitors the state of various remote network services, sending alerts and performing actions in case of any network problems. It supports checks for ICMP, TCP port, HTTP, FTP, disk space usage, ODBC and MS-SQL through native interfaces. Network Eagle also performs the checking of remote processes and NT services.

DEKSI LAN Manager

DEKSI LAN Manager is an advanced, powerful, and feature rich program designed for high speed network management. DEKSI LAN Manager provides network management, discovery and monitoring software for networks. DEKSI LAN Manager provides discovery all available computers on your network through a range of IP addresses, multiple workgroups and domains or the whole LAN, and collects machine data such as IP address, MAC address, SNMP, NetBIOS, etc. DEKSI LAN Manager checks whether computers are online or not, and detects whether names or IP addresses have been modified. DEKSI LAN Manager also monitors the servers and workstations in your LAN/WAN for availability. Once failure or a problem is detected, DEKSI LAN Manager will alert the network administrator immediately, and automatically boot and shutdown target computers. DEKSI LAN Manager Wake-On-LAN allows you to send a "Wake-On-LAN" command to remote computers. You can easily power on PCs located on other rooms or offices. Support schedule and service is provided as is shutdown or reboot all computers running Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 system on a LAN. Support for local schedule is also standard. DEKSI LAN Manager's Integrated Command, which is especially designed for Remote Execute, provides many useful management functions such as lock keyboard, lock computer, obtain installed software & hardware information. Capture screen or kill process at regular interval, etc.

Spytech NetVizor

NetVizor is the latest in centralized network monitoring software that can invisibly monitor your entire network from one centralized location! NetVizor allows you to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PC's on a network, and can be rolled out from one location via its remote installer. NetVizor records everything users do, including screenshots, keystrokes typed, program and website usage, email and chat activity, file and document usage, and much more. Detailed activity reports can be generated to summarize and breakdown what is happening on your network. NetVizor can also show you what everyone is doing on your network in real-time with a single mouse click via its visual network overview and real-time activity ticker. Combining real-time remote surveillance with complete computer activity monitoring, website, application, and chat activity filtering, detailed reports, and security auditing, NetVizor is the most unmatched and comprehensive network monitoring solution available anywhere!

Advanced Log Monitor

Advanced Log Monitor is a log management solution that monitors log files from any program, database or device and notifies you by email when a specific event occurs (Warning, Firewall attack, Hardware failure or anything else), can quickly and cost-effectively monitor your mission-critical servers, databases and applications and notify you of any problematic or unusual activity. Advanced Log Monitor main features: monitors log files from any program, database or device, monitors log files for any text string, automatically emails a notification to a predetermined email address, can email a short notification (to a mobile phone or a pager) or a detailed one, monitors logs in any format (syslogs, .log, .csv, etc.).

EventMeister

EventMeister enables to to Windows Event Logs and provides features to be notified if events are logged that match your criteria. The program provides a log viewer that allows you to easily view data from all monitored eventlogs, using an easy to read format. In addition, it offers powerful filters to retrieve only the information in which you are interested and merge data from multiple logs for easier timeline analysis. You can filter, sort and reorganize columns to assist with detailed analysis and data presentation, and create multiple views of the same data. Additional features include export to CSV, HTML, XML and RSS, as well as email notifications, audio alerts and more. Using the email notification feature, you can be quickly notified if any computer is experiencing technical problems, failures or other problems. A single installation can harvest Windows Event Logs throughout your network without the need for multiple licenses.

NetVizor

NetVizor is a powerful network surveillance tool, that allows you to monitor your entire network from one centralized location. It enables you to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PCs on a network. NetVizor combines real-time remote surveillance, administration, and individual user monitoring and can record keystrokes, web/email activity, program activity, documents viewed, screenshots and much more. All logs are store on the central server and a detailed report can be viewed from a browser interface.

Router Monitor for XP and Vista

Router Monitor provides a vigilant eye that keeps track of your routers and other important devices. A real time status update will help you pinpoint problem areas in your network. 3DSNMP is a company dedicated to bringing ultra modern Windows XP and Vista networking tools to a graphical level never before seen in network management software. Our Router Monitor ultility is another example. With support of IP version 4 and IP version 6 it is the next generation of network health monitoring utilities.

Intellipool Network Monitor

Intellipool Network Monitor is an easy to use, browser based network monitor that can help you to monitor a variety of different protocols and services on LAN or internet machines. It runs as a service and consumes minimal system resources. The modern interface is web based and all you need is a device with a web browser to control Intellipool Network Monitor from the SSL protected web interface. Sentry is structured into actions, objects and agents as well as configurable operators and groups. Monitoring agents include RDP 5.0(Windows Terminal Server), ICA (Citrix Metaframe 1.7-1.8), ODBC, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, TFTP, IMAP4

GEO Spider

GEO Spider enables you to automatically trace all network activity on a world map display. It automatically monitors all network applications including browsers, FTP and email and resolves the IP address to the geographical location down to the city level, which is then marked on a world map display. GEO Spider also integrates additional network utilities including traceroute, WHOIS and ping that can be invoked from any of the captured Ip addresses. The program can be used in automatic mode, capturing all network activity in the background, or on a as-needed n basis for manual lookups. You can also set the world map as interactive desktop wallpaper. Other features include integrated screen capture, ping alerts and more.

Bandwidth Meter Pro

Bandwidth Meter Pro monitors your bandwidth usage and displays real-time graphs for one or more selected network connections. It also generates daily, weekly and monthly reports, itemizing your upload and download usage along with the total bandwidth consumption. The program also includes a notification option that can notify you when less than X bytes were downloaded within the last X seconds, as well as a simple connection stop watch and options to export reports to .txt, .csv and HTML format.

LANState

LANState is a visual network manager that allows you to create an interactive map of your network and monitor the status of all connected devices in real-time. LANState monitors shared resources, traffic, and notifies you on miscellaneous events. In addition, you can send messages, shut down remote computers, review system information, and run network tools including ping and traceroute. Other features include a network traffic monitor, and export to BMP or XML scheme.

PRTG - Paessler Router Traffic Grapher

PRTG Traffic Grapher enables you to log and monitor data flowing in and out of any SNMP enabled network device, like routers, switches, firewalls and others. It provides a graphical interface with real-time charts and long term statistical reports covering daily and monthly periods. It also provides an option to generate interactive HTML reports. The version you are downloading is a featured limited, free version, that can be used with up to 3 devices. It has some features disabled and a nag screen, but does not expire.

Nsauditor Network Security Auditor

Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a complete networking utilities package that includes a wide range of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring and more. You can discover network services and check them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints with their associated process, discover NetBios names, audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces and more. The program also includes real-time network packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning, password auditing, IP address lookup and more than 35 network tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining access to machines, DNS and WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator and intrusion detection based on security events log. Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall, this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low price.

WebWatchBot

WebWatchBot is a monitoring and analysis software for web sites and IP devices including Ping, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, Port, and DNS checks. It provides in-depth monitoring and alerting functionality as well as tools to analyze and visualize historical data with real-time charting and graphs. Additional features include an option to run as a Windows Service, customizable 3D charts with print support, SQL database storage, and more.

Bandwidth Controller

Bandwidth Controller Personal Edition enables you to monitor and limit bandwidth usage on your computer or local network. You can create rules for upload and download activities and limit the bandwidth usage to X bytes/sec with the option to further filter the rule by local or remote IP address. The program also includes a real-time traffic monitor with detailed statistics for each ongoing upload or download. Bandwidth Controller Personal Edition is limited to the TCP protocol.

DomainScan Light

Free network monitor for Windows based networks with user and device tracking, monitors and network search capabilities. There is also support for SNMP and WMI queries. Everything is presented in an easy-to-learn user interface, and because of the fact that DomainScan Light is using existing network technologies, no client software needs installing. Formerly known as NetScanG

ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor provides availability monitoring for all your applications, servers, and network devices. It comes complete with a built-in web server and database to keep track of monitoring results. The program can quickly discover IP-based network devices and automatically recommend monitoring settings for each device, without the need for manual configuration. You can configure a variety of checks, including monitoring of Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server, SMTP, and more. SolarWinds ipMonitor is managed via a modern browser interface, that is password protected and can be accessed from anywhere on the network. Other features include support for SNMP and WMI, end-user experience monitoring, customizable reports, alerts (email, SMS, Net send etc.) and more.

Flexiblesoft Dialer XP Pro

FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO adds convenience to your everyday dial-up networking. This versatileal dialer allows you to connect to the Internet with one click on the system tray. The program will monitor your connection, and automatically redial multiple numbers if you're bumped offline. Its skinnable toolbar-style interface displays the current time and your actual connection speed. FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO also displays the amount of time you've spent online. FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO can automatically open a number of applications once a connection is established. For example, it can run your browser and e-mail client and instantly close them once you go offline. It is also excellent for downloading since you can schedule connecting and disconnecting for certain time, including off-peak hours. FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO is loaded with extra features, such as the tool that synchronizes your PC clock with timeservers on the Internet. Besides, its 'Keep Alive' feature prevents your ISP from disconnecting you. FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO records statistics for each online session no matter what dial-up program you use. These generated log files can be exported as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. FlexibleSoft Dialer XP PRO is a well-implemented program and features multilanguage support.

Q3ADE 3G NMS

Q3ADE 3G monitors the resources on your network 24x7 like web, mail, disks, CPU, event logs etc. . The state of your network is displayed using an advanced graphical client program with numerous interactive features. Availability statistics for the last 24H, 7D, 30D and 365D. Alarms are collected, unified and managed according to professional principles and alert mails may be issued. Numerous Inventory reports are included as standard. a suite of software tools and applications developed by UH Communications A/S. Q3ADE tools have been applied by 100+ telecom vendors and operators worldwide over the last 11 years as part of telecom/network management applications ranging from small mission specific solutions to very large scale telecom applications. We consider it as possibly our strongest sales point the fact that Q3ADE is a key component of several very large and mission critical telecom management applications.

ID AntiDialer

ID AntiDialer is a utility meant to protect your privacy and prevent your internet modem from being used by third parties. It blocks spyware dialers from infiltrating into your computer's system and prevents them from dialing and overcharging phone numbers. The main features includes: monitoring of all calls dialed using your modem, restriction for the use of your modem, allows you to set a safe dialing list.

ID Network Watch

ID Network Watch is a useful utility designed to provide network and system investigation data, keeping you informed of the status of your network security settings. It checks the network and system security settings and allows you to quick fix the problems found. Main features includes: monitoring Internet vulnerabilities, checking the Denial of Services possibility, proofing the services running etc

NetResident

NetResident is a network traffic monitor that captures, stores and analyzes all packet traffic from selected protocols. It reconstructs each event and displays a preview of the web page, email message or other communication that took place, including transmitted (unencrypted) passwords. NetResident supports standard HTTP, FTP and Mail protocols, as well as special protocols via plug-ins (ICQ, MSN, News). The program is easy to use and organizes the logged data by date, machine and protocol, and also offers several basic filters to exclude stations, sites or file types from logging. NetResident runs as a local service.

Alchemy Eye Pro

Alchemy Eye Pro is a system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye PRO can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager BEFORE problems get seriously out of hand. This helps protect your company's data and reduces the likelihood of costly network failures. If a server goes down, Alchemy Eye automatically notifies the network administrator.

NetPalpus

NetPalpus is an easy-to-use network management tool, that can discover, organize and monitor all devices on your network. It can monitor the device status, as well as availability of specific services (http, smtp, ftp, mssql etc.) and alert you via sound or email when a device becomes unavailable. The network devices are automatically organized by subnet and service type, and you can also create custom groups to manage them based on your own criteria. NetPalpus lacks advanced monitoring and alerting features, but for basic network monitoring it offers good features at a low price.

ShareAlarmPro

ShareAlarmPro enables you to monitor network shares and be alerted when files are added, changed or removed or when share policies are changed. Alerts can be sent via tray icon, sound or email message. The program also logs all network session and file changes, allowing you to review anything that happened on your PC. The session viewer provides an overview of all currently active sessions with the option to terminate a session, block users or send a message to the user. ShareAlarmPro can also monitor the Windows Event Log and alerts you of certain events like failed logins, user log-offs, expired password and more. Other features include LAN browsing, folder monitoring, and more.

BitMeter 2

BitMeter 2 is a small bandwidth meter, that allows you to monitor your Internet connection with the help of a real-time graph that shows your upload and download speed over time. It offers long-term upload/download history to track your usage over time, as well as customizable speed and volume alerts. It also includes a download time calculator and a download stopwatch. The small graph can be placed on your desktop as a floating window or in click-through mode.

NetShareWatcher

NetShareWatcher monitor network shares and folder permissions and alerts you every time a user changes the ACL of a share to a group that violates your access policy (e.g changing ACL to `Everyone`). If a change is detected that matches your rules, it can automatically disable the share, send an email or network message message or alert you from the system tray.

CommView

CommView is a utility 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 you 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 you don t need or capture only those packets that you 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.

Network Eagle Monitor

Network Eagle is a network monitoring program, that supports Ping checks, HTTP checks, Database checks (with SQL query verification), disk space checks and more. It can also notify you of Eventlog entries and check NT services/processes for their status. Advanced users can write their own script checks using JS and VBS or any other script provider like ActivePerl or Active Python installed on your system. In case any check returns an error, Network Eagle provides several alert options, including email, Eventlog, sound notification, custom scripts and more. It also notifies with a popup from the system tray and keeps long term statistics for failures, overall downtime per server and more.

Rider

This program measures network response time, bandwidth, and voice over IP or video streaming performance between any two computers on your network.

Activity Monitor

Activity Monitor is a remote surveillance program, that monitors networked machines in real time. You can view real-time (and history) desktop snapshots, programs that have been used and are currently running, websites visited, typed keystrokes and more. The administration interface is easy to use and allows you to simply switch between the machines in order to view and investigate real-time details or to retrieve history logs from each agent. Additional remote control features include options to start programs or execute commands remotely, turn off or restart remote computers, log off users, copy files from remote systems, and send instant messages to remote users. Activity Monitor Agent can be easily deployed over the network to all computers in the LAN, using the built-in remote installer.

NT Meter

NT Meter (Network Traffic Meter) is an easy-to-use Windows-based tool for network traffic monitoring. It monitors the traffic of a specified network connection on your computer, graphically and numerically displays its state in real-time. With NT Meter you can easily verify all the main characteristics of the network connection and perform your PC work simultaneously. Unlike other products, it has an unobtrusive "Graphs Shade" window that doesn't fill the desktop area and doesn't hamper user??s work. The program doesn't show average and maximal values of bandwidth that easily determine by sight, instead of this it can display the total download/upload traffic, connection time and type of the network interface. Moreover, you can control any supplementary traffic in the same window. The incoming and outgoing traffic is logged to a file, so that you can always view the accumulated statistics of chosen Interface according to the period of time. These hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports can be exported to Microsoft Excel format.

DomainScan

This network monitor tracks computers and users in real time. DomainScan also works as an audit and logging tool, which makes it a useful tool for system administrators and support personnel. Tools include a WMI browser, network search tools, domain report, port test and a hardware browser.

SoftPerfect Network Scanner

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a multi-threaded IP, SNMP and NetBIOS scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on a network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined t port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.

Ping Plotter

Fast, small, and visual Ping/Trace Route utility to troubleshoot your internet connection. It is built for long-term monitoring and uses multiple threads to trace all hops at once for sustantial performance improvements over standard trace routes. PingPlotter also does visual graphs of performance to pinpoint problems and see ranges of responses and trends. Also features time-graphing, performance enhancements and long-term monitoring tools. PingPlotter outputs nice, colorful images (or text reports) that can also be saved as BPM or PNG file for later reference or email sending. In addition, it offers alert functions will allow you to set parameters where you want to be notified of the condition. If the conditions fire an alert, you can log that data to a text file, play a wave file, or send yourself e-mail with the pertinent information included.

FREE PacketTrap Ping Scan

PacketTrap Ping Scan is a FREE utility that sends ICMP ECHO requests across a network and rapidly builds a spreadsheet of responding nodes. DNS lookup information may optionally be provided by Ping Scan for each responding address.

MING Network Monitor

MING Network Monitor is a simple and affordable software solution for users who want to control, monitor, and archive unlimited Internet traffic on the company or home network, including instant messages (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and QQ), emails sent and received, web sites visited, and files downloaded. The manager can view records in the database, search by key word, watch top users, monitor bandwidth and so on. It is able to record everything your employees or kids do online automatically in real time. It's easy to use, and it can run in stealth mode. Key Features 1. Easy to use, Simple installation that will have you up and running in minutes. 2. With MING Network Monitor you can log both sides of chats on: AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ and QQ. 3. It can record emails sent and received, web sites visited, and files downloaded. 4. Monitor Internet and LAN bandwidth of every computer on the LAN with real-time graphical and numerical data transfer rates. 5. Records can be conveniently browsed by computer name and date/time. 6. The manager can set custom names for the computers on the network. 7. The search function allows you to view all messages or mails that contain a specific word or phrase. 8. A useful Admin tool allows you to analyze the usage of different instant messengers, and see the top users in your company. 9. It records all network traffic and includes extensive logging (hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly), and allows you to see the top internet users on the LAN. 10. Logs can be automatically e-mailed to you, or uploaded to a remote server. MING Network Monitor is password-protected, can run in stealth mode, and is accessible with a hot key. 11. Support multi-language. 12. No spyware, adware or other unwanted extra programs.

HttpWatch

HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with Internet Explorer to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window. HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with Internet Explorer to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window.

DEKSI Network Monitor

DEKSI Network Monitor is an advanced, powerful and feature network monitor that monitors your servers and notifies you when a problem exists.

Internet Connection Counter

This program displays various statistics about your Internet dial-up and GPRS connections. It can process tariff schemes. Provides management of several connections, each having its own settings and connection report log file with recorded session details and diagrams showing money, time and traffic statistics. You can export connection report tables into Microsoft Excel and ping remote addresses. The program has editable counters including session time, incoming and outgoing traffic, connection speed, reception speed, transmission speed, current session expenses, payment balance, system time, expenses for period and counters of totals. Counters of the main window and speed counters may be arranged both horizontally and vertically. Counter dimensions can be adjusted.

Bandwidth Monitor Lite

Bandwidth Monitor Lite is a simple network monitor to keep track of your upload and download bandwidth statistics. It also displays a real-time graph of your current bandwidth usage and maintains a long-term log of daily statistics. The monitoring features are very basic and limited to a graph display and basic log, however if that is all you need, you may want to give it a try. The interface is very modern and fully customizable. Bandwidth Monitor Lite offer a graphical design mode that allows you to completely alter the looks and choose the data to be displayed in the monitor.

DU Meter

DU Meter enables you to use your Internet connection more efficiently. It lets you see how much of your full bandwidth potential is actually utilized at any given point in time, either by displaying a real-time graph, numerical display, or both. The program works with Dial-Up, ISDN, Cable Modem, and Ethernet cards and allows you to select a specific network interface. Additional features include logging, export, an option to remove the DU Meter window caption, as well as a stopwatch which accurately times your downloads and reports the average transfer rates. DU Meter also comes with an option to notify user or disconnect from the Internet automatically when network activity drops below a certain level.

TrafMeter

This program provides accounting and real-time monitoring of Internet traffic to and from a local network. The read-out can be presented in both numerical and graphical formats.

Interface Traffic Indicator

Interface Traffic Indicator enables you to measure incoming and outgoing traffic for SNMP-capable (MIB-2) interfaces, including compatible network cards, switches, routers, and other devices. You can customize the polling interval from 1-120 seconds, and optionally write a log file. The current traffic is displayed in a bytes or bit/sec graph display.

BT Watcher

BT Watcher is a smart tool designed to watch when you are near yournotebook or PC. The program protects your data from unauthorized accesswhen you are away from your computer.When you will leave the vicinity of the computer, BT Watcher will lockyour screen. Your screen will be locked if someone tries using the mouseor keyboard on your computer.BT Watcher will know when you will leave because it is constantly watchingthe connection with your Bluetooth enabled device, typically your mobilephone.Bt Watcher is designed especially for business persons, or agents whotravel with notebooks, and like to have sensitive data locked fromunauthorized access.

Oleansoft Hidden Camera

Oleansoft Hidden Camera is an employee monitoring software that allows you to view desktop capture of up to 250 computers simultaneously. The program provides a thumbnail size preview (size depends on number of monitors) as well as a full size view of the desktop. You can choose between a view-only mode and a record mode, which will automatically save screen captures into an archive for later review. In addition to the desktop captures, Hidden Camera also allows you to send a simple text message to an employee. The program must be configured manually by typing IP addresses (no import) and also installed manually on each computer to be monitored (requires a license for each).

Net Spy Pro

Net Spy Pro is a full-featured activity monitor that allows network administrators to inspect user activities remotely, using any web browser. The program installs in optional stealth mode and lets you specify which activities to monitor, and then runs automatically whenever the computer is started. The browser interface allows you to view recent activities (web site logs, documents used, chat conversations, open ports and more), view a live snapshot of desktop or logs of previous captures and more. In addition to user surveillance, you can also perform several administrative functions such as rebooting the PC, locking the desktop and interact with the user by sending a message, launching a website and more. Additional features include emailing of logs, as well as website and program filtering. The displayed price applies to the first PC to be monitored, any additional license cost $19.95 per machine.

Ascendant NFM

Ascendant NFM (Network File Monitor) enables network administrators to centrally monitor and record file actions that occurs on your network, including file modifications, deletions, and additions of new files. Every action is recorded along with the exact time and the user that performed the action. Furthermore, the program can automatically archive copies of specified files whenever they are modified, and alert you via email of the changes. In addition to file changes, Ascendant NFM can also keep a log of all websites and programs that were accessed on the monitored machines. Other features include HTML reports, network enumeration and more. No client installations required to monitor a workstation.

NetMeter

NetMeter is a powerful and easy-to-use bandwidth meter. It monitors traffic of all network connections and displays real-time graphical and numerical data transfer rates. NetMeter can display detail of multiple network connections at the same time. It records all network traffic and includes extensive logging. NetMeter works with virtually all types of network connections including phone modems, DSL, cable modem, LAN, satellite and more.

10-Strike LANState

LANState is a visual network mapper with monitoring functionality which allows you to see the state of your network at any time. It displays network map and monitors device state (active/inactive) in real-time. LANState monitors shared resources, shows traffic speeds, and notifies you on miscellaneous events.The program includes a number of features for administrators such as sending messages, shutting down and turning on remote computers, ping, name lookup, trace route, obtaining information on remote computers, creating reports, etc. LANState does not require installing any client software on the remote computers on your network. Main features:1. Modeling a local area network diagram in a visual mode and then saving the result as a map with images.2. Monitoring hosts (ICMP ping and connecting to specified TCP port are supported).3. Monitoring the usage of your shared resources by other users of the network.4. Monitoring load of your network card (incoming/outgoing traffic).5. Searching hosts by ICMP ping or scanning TCP ports.6. Retrieving computer's network name by its IP address.7. Notifying on events by playing a sound, writing to log, running program, sending e-mail, etc.8. Performing actions on devices via the configurable context menu.

AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils

AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils 3 provides real-time monitoring tools to troubleshoot poor network performance, heavy bandwidth utilization and connectivity or link problems before they turn into outages, delayed response times, high CPU usage, hard disk utilization, device availability, software inventory, etc. It has a collection of 40+ real-time troubleshooting tools. OpUtils being web-based gives instantaneous results for any network node.

Microsoft Network Monitor

Microsoft Network Monitor 3 is a network protocol analyzer that can capture network traffic for further inspection by a network administrator. It supports regular expression filters, scriptable parsers, custom data types and other advanced features. Network Monitor 3 can simultaneously capture packets on multiple network adapters and provides real-time display as well as frame and tree view to manage the captured data.

FirePlotter

FirePlotter is a real-time session or connection monitor for your Cisco or FortiNet firewall. Installed and operational in less than a minute. FirePlotter supports all Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls and FortiNet FortiGate Firewalls. FirePlotter provides tabular listings and summary of sessions by Service (HTTP, FTP etc), Destination IP, Source IP and more. FirePlotter displays clear and meaningful graphical representation of service sessions inbound and outbound by bandwidth usage.

Karens Net Monitor

Karen s Net Monitor perodically tests web servers and email servers of your choice, and attempts to download a specific page. It reports any errors that occur, so you can take corrective action. In addition, it can check for a signature that must be contained in the source code of the page, and alert you if it is not present. The testing interval can be adjusted.

Nexeye Monitoring Enterprise

Monitor network users web, e-mail and MSN Messenger activities on a real-time basis with nexeye Monitoring. Monitor on a real-time basis the network traffic from/to the Internet as well as the traffic generated by the individual users. Analyse the logged data and create professional reports with the report templates. Transform the huge amount of network information to reports that make sense.