Computer Network Management and Monitoring
If you build a Network Monitoring system you will find out that there is a lot of information that you can get via the SNMP Protocol. You have to make some choices on what you want to monitor and when you want to receive a notification about a certain event and how you want to receive it. Start by making a basic monitoring plan, think about what you want to see: For example: Disc space usage on Servers, SAN or NAS devices CPU usage … [Read more...]
There are several tools with which you can monitor your network. First, what has Network Documentation to do with Network Monitoring? More then you might think! Because you need to now the ins- and outs of your network you look at your doumentation to find out what critical devices you got. Depending on that information you can start building a monitoring system. Here are several tools that you will find very usefull: Use the … [Read more...]