Enterprise Monitoring Solution
Hi All, I’m researching to see what my fellow IT peers are using for monitoring their infrastructure either a global solution or a piece meal setup. Let me know your ideas.

Answer Question   |  October 17, 2010  10:10 PM
Infrastructure management, Network monitoring, Network Monitoring Tools

Personal E-mail at work (aol, gmail)
I am looking for documentation to support blocking personal e-mail at work(aol, comcast, hotmail etc) for virus and hippa compliance regions. Can anyone direct me to any publications that support this? Thanks!

Answer Question   |  April 17, 2009  7:37 PM
AOL, Email security, Gmail, HIPAA, Network monitoring

How to see if my Nmap tcpwrapped port is open after a GFI LANguard scan
I ran Nmap 4.0 and GFI LANguard GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) on a Windows 2003 server and noticed that the FTP Port 21 is open but tcpwrapped. How do I check further if Port 21 is indeed open? I’ve checked the IIS6.0 and the Windows Add/ Remove program section there’s not FTP installed. [...]

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2009  6:17 PM
FTP, Network monitoring, Network security, Network security appliances, Networking, Nmap, Ports, Security scanner, tcpwrappers

Tool for monitoring users downloading fom Internet
I want to monitor my network users like, which user is downloading more from Inernet because I am facing my Airtel DSL Internet Bill problem. Please Kindly tell me soon……

Answer Question   |  February 12, 2009  6:26 AM
Bandwidth limits, Bandwidth monitoring, Internet download limit, Internet restrictions, Internet traffic control, Network monitoring, Network monitoring software, Network Monitoring Tools, User monitoring

Network
I’m not really sure but I believe that this is a netwoprk issue, we have been experincing that some of our PC’s either take to long to logon to windows domain, also some of the applications take to long to open (three min or more) e.g. Lotus Notes, iSeries emulator, IE, and, some times if [...]

Answer Question   |  January 29, 2009  4:16 PM
Network monitoring, Network performance, Network performance monitoring, Network testing

How to extract the IP address of a data packet and store it in the database?
A client sends a data packet to the server machine, then how can the server extract the IP address of the data packet .Can you suggest a source code for this above query in JAVA? After extracting the IP address how can the IP address be stored in the database, where other IP addresses of [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2009  5:25 AM
IP address, Java development, Network monitoring, Network security, packet analysis, Packet analyzers, Packet filtering

Is it necessary to be connected to sniff traffic over a wired network?
Is it necessary to be connected to sniff traffic over a wired network?

Answer Question   |  January 21, 2009  7:09 AM
Network monitoring, Network security, Packet sniffers, Packet Sniffing, Sniffers

Shared folder server activity
What would be the best way to log data for files in a shared directory (and sub-directories) on a server? The type of information needed would be something like this: - File accessed - By whom the file was accessed - Date/Time opened - Date/Time closed (if possible) - Date/Time file saved Everything is a [...]

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2008  9:26 AM
File permissions, Log files, Network monitoring, Shared folders, Transaction logs, User monitoring, Windows Server

What is a data point?
I was reading a white paper called “Network Monitoring – Shifting from Fire Fighting to Fire Prevention” and didn’t understand what it meant by data point. Can someone explain to me what a data point is? Thank you!

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2008  9:05 PM
Data, Data point, Network monitoring, Networking

Visual Network Topology
I’m looking for a comprehensive open source (free) package to map and monitor my network environment. I like Solarwinds LanSurveyor but the price is prohibitive. Are there any recommendations?

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2009  8:34 PM
Network monitoring, Network monitoring software, Network Topology, Open source network monitoring, Solarwinds Lansurveyor

Cross-platform tools for security, monitoring
What would be some good cross-platform administration tools to use for an environment running Windows OS X and Debian’s test release lenny? It is a small business (<200 employees) and the main concerns are being able to perform secure file transfers throughout the system and keeping track of everything going on on the different operating [...]

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2008  3:09 PM
Debian, Integration, Linux monitoring and troubleshooting, Monitoring, Network monitoring

windows server 2003 network monitor
how do i capture a traffic signal over a long period of time on a computer running windows server 2003 which is experiencing problems and is seriously short on disk space?

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2008  5:00 PM
Network monitoring, Windows Server 2003

Tool to generate report using nagios log file as input
Hi All, I am using Nagios as monitoring tool for more than 120 hosts. I am in requirement of one tool which will help me to use nagios log file as input to the tool and will generate report having histogram. I have tried using Sawmill but it does’nt work Thanks & REgards Ashish B. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 15, 2010  8:27 AM
Nagios, Network monitoring

How to identyfy net usage
I am a system admin in a private company.in my office we have 60 systems and 13 laptops.How can i get each systems internet usage ,not through proxy ,if any body have any idea about any tool please send your comments to robinsmjames@hotmail.com

Answer Question   |  July 17, 2008  9:45 AM
Network analysis, Network monitoring, User monitoring

Interconnectivity WLAN and LAN computer on a network
We have a wireless router connected to the server so that all other laptop and wireless devices can access the internet and share printers. The server is on a LAN while the laptops are on WLAN. There’s a printer connected to a computer on the LAN but the Laptops can not seem to connect to [...]

Answer Question   |  April 30, 2008  1:26 PM
LAN, Network, Network monitoring, Wireless, WLAN

How to determine if a client-side Internet connection is using VPN?
A German Seti@Home user is asking the Boinc developers’ forum how one can determine if a TCP/IP connection is a VPN connection or not. Management of his company does not want Boinc using the connection if it is a VPN. Can you tell me how one can tell if a client-side Internet connection is a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 20, 2012  7:42 PM
Channel, Network monitoring, Networking Channel, VAR, VPN

layer 3 issue on a layer 2 device.
I have a 2950 switch and its set only as an Access layer switch. uplinks arent even trunked. im using the native VLAN for mgmt and a different vlan for the users. the switch is being able to work as layer 2,switching packets. but im not able to ping the IP for the mgmt VLAN. [...]

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2008  6:57 PM
Layer 3, Network applications management, Network connectivity, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Networking, VLAN

Utility to measure Network congestion
I am looking for a tool (hopefully freeware) to measure network utilization and collision rate? Hopefully an executable that does not require intallation. Yes, Performance Monitor built into Windows can do it, but I don’t have the patience to spend 2 hours trying to figure out how to set it up. The interface is not [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2008  10:57 PM
Network monitoring, Network testing, Performance monitoring

Network Monitoring Solution.
Is there a simple, inexpensive way to monitor traffic on the network? I have a small school system with around 200pc’s connected. I want to monitor the network traffic and see which IP address is spamming the network with traffic. It’s a rural school without alot of finances to spend so I was looking for [...]

Answer Question   |  February 29, 2008  10:20 PM
Network monitoring, Traffic analyzer software

Data link layer monitoring
Can you please explain a method used for data link layer monitoring?

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2009  10:37 PM
Data link protocols, Network monitoring, Networking