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OpManager is a network monitoring software that provides robust fault and performance management functionalities.

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OpManager
Today's networks are complex and getting to know actual 'on-field' performance of your network can be an infuriating task without the right network monitoring tool. To pin-point where exactly problems lie, it is essential that you have in-depth visibility over every element of your network - network devices, links, servers, applications and key services running on your network.
ManageEngine OpManager helps administrators with a unified view of their complete network & IT infrastructure. This holistic view aided by advanced fault and performance management functionalities ensures an always up and optimized IT infrastructure. OpManager offers a comprehensive set of features to monitor Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Wireless Access points, WAN links, VoIP services, Servers, Services, URLs, Applications, Database, UPS, Printers and much more. End-to-end visibility on network performance and availability never came this easy over a single management console.

OpManager's network management capabilities include:
  • Device availability & performance management
  • Link availability & performance management
  • In-depth WAN link availability and performance monitoring (Using Cisco's IP SLA)
  • Granular information on traffic and bandwidth composition (Through NetFlow, s-Flow, etc...)
  • VoIP services monitoring
  • Change, Configuration and Compliance management of network devices
OpManager is an ideal and affordable network monitoring tool for managing today's complex networks. The small network 10 node edition is available free of cost.

Functional Highlights
  • 100% web-based
  • Agent-less monitoring (Uses SNMP, TCP/IP, WMI, CLI, Cisco's IP SLA, SNMP traps)
  • A rich and intuitive User Interface with detailed graphs & charts
  • Designed to support heterogeneous environments
  • Multi-platform support
  • Scalable Architecture
  • Integrated Infrastructure Management
  • Business Centric IT Management
  • Network Performance Management
  • Server and Application Management
  • Fault Management
  • Trend Analysis and Capacity Planning
Start at $995 for monitoring 50 devices.
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.opmanager.com  |   Download OpManager
ActiveXperts Network Monitor
ActiveXperts Network Monitor is a leading solution for monitoring every aspect of your LAN and WAN network. It proactively manages your network servers, network devices, web servers, databases, etc. It detects and corrects problems before network users start complaining. The product is scalable. It includes a large set of pre-defined, built-in monitoring checks;
When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by network message, e-mail, pager, or SMS message. When a failure is detected, the network monitor tool will try to recover the problem by running a system administrator defined program or by restarting a process.

ActiveXperts Network Monitor features the following: ActiveXperts Network Monitor costs EURO 690.00 for a perpetual Enterprise License (one time fee!). This includes one year maintenace (support and upgrades).
Company: ActiveXperts Software
Internet:  www.activexperts.com  |   Download ActiveXperts Network Monitor
Alchemy Eye
Alchemy Eye is a system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye 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 and writes a detailed log file.
Company: Alchemy Lab
Internet:  www.alchemy-lab.com
AlertBot Website & Server Monitoring
AlertBot is an industry leader in website and server monitoring service. Their service monitors a company’s websites and internet servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the goal of gathering performance data and alerting the company of failures. The performance data is graphed and trended to allow a company to make educated IT decisions. When the company’s website or servers fails, AlertBot immediately diagnosis the problem from multiple geographic test locations and sends instant alerts to the company’s staff via their mobile phones and email accounts.
Key features include: Download & verify pages, Test form submission, Testing multiple page variations, error diagnostics, error screenshots, performance tracking, interactive reports, unlimited alert contacts, alert escalation levels, multiple geographic locations, full control panel, remote test kit.

AlertBot provides service to all types of businesses ranging from small businesses to some of the world’s largest and most recognized brands. AlertBot’s focus on quality makes them a clear choice for anyone who runs a serious business.

Getting started with AlertBot is easy. There is no software to install, no systems to maintain, no IT resources to waist. They do all the hard work for you. You can literally signup and configure your monitoring within minutes. Best of all, they have a no hassle 14 day free trial. If you’re not sure what you need or how to configure it, AlertBot also provides free full-service evaluations of your needs. They can propose a monitoring strategy for your website and set it up for you. Just request a consultation with one of their account consultants.
Company: AlertBot
Internet:  http://www.alertbot.com
Applications Manager
Applications Manager provides a heterogeneous monitoring capability that helps the IT Team to troubleshoot application performance issues quickly.
Additionally the business centric view also helps prioritize alerts in production as it helps visualize the Business Applications that are impacted.

Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of
  • J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
  • GlassFish and Sliverstream Application Server,
  • Database Query monitoring,
  • Active Directory monitoring,
  • J2EE Web Transactions,
  • Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
  • IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
  • SOAP Web Services,
  • SAP Servers,
  • Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
  • Monitor your network from Applications Manager by integrating ManageEngine OpManager through Network Monitoring Connector,
  • Web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.
Monitor 25 Applications for $795 / Year"
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.appmanager.com  |   Download Applications Manager
Axence nVision
Axence nVision monitors servers, applications, routers and user activity. It collects hardware and software inventory; provides alerting and reports.
Using either TCP/IP, SNMP or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), nVision can identify and monitor:
  • Mail, web servers and URLs
  • TCP/IP and Windows services (with the ability to restart failed services)
  • Applications health and performance (MS SQL, Exchange, etc.)
  • Switches and routers: interface status, network traffic and nodes connected to every port
  • Windows and SNMP device performance - such as CPU utilization, memory, disk space, network transfers, etc.
The network is automatically discovered and presented on interactive graphical map.
nVision automatically collects node hardware and software information: model, CPU, memory, main board, drives, cards, etc., installed applications and Windows updates. It allows license usage auditing and verification. It will also alert you in case of a program installation or any configuration change on a remote node. Optional agents can monitor user activity: user activity/inactivity time, application usage, visited web pages. The agent provides also workstation remote control.

The program provides a wide range of alerts and reports: real-time and historical charts, system & application performance, service and host availability, interface traffic and utilization, inventory, user activity.
Company: Axence Software, Inc.
Internet:  www.axencesoftware.com
Big Brother
Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. Your current network status is displayed on a color-coded web page in near-real time. When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.

It is a Web-based system and network monitoring solution. It is highly scalable, customizable and easy to maintain. It checks availability of devices, servers (Windows, Linux) and network delivered services in any IT WAN/LAN network. Big Brother is built for Network administrators and Support Engineers tasked with managing the availability and performance of servers and network devices on a limited budget.
Company: BB4 Technologies Inc. / Part of Quest Software Inc.
Internet:  www.bb4.com
Cisco IOS NetFlow
NetFlow technology efficiently provides the metering base for a key set of applications including network traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, as well as Denial Services monitoring capabilities, network monitoring, outbound marketing, and data mining capabilities for both service provider and enterprise customers. Cisco provides a set of NetFlow applications to collect NetFlow export data, perform data volume reduction, post-processing, and provide to end-user applications easy access to NetFlow data.
Company: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Internet:  www.cisco.com
Colasoft Capsa
Designed for packet decoding and network diagnosis, Colasoft Capsa monitors the network traffic transmitted over a local host and a local network, helping network administrators maintain and troubleshoot network problems. With the ability of real time packet capture and accurate data analysis, Colasoft Capsa makes your network transparent before you, letting you quickly and efficiently fix the network troubles.

What can you do with Colasoft Capsa?
-- Diagnose your network events
-- View detailed statistics for IP connections: IP addresses, ports, sessions, etc.
-- Reconstruct TCP Streams.
-- Monitor application packets.
-- Monitor network error packets in real time.
-- Monitor network traffic in real time and find out high network occupation.
-- View protocols distribution, bandwidth utilization, and packet size distribution both in charts and tables.
-- Generate comprehensive statistic reports.
-- Monitor and logs HTTP requests, email messages and FTP transfers.
-- Browse decoded packet information of network nodes.
-- View TCP connection status.
-- Define advanced filters with logical rules and multiple parameters.
-- Import and export packets to the files in multiple formats.
-- Capture traffic form multiple adapters simultaneously.
-- Capture loopback traffic.
Company: Colasoft Co., Ltd.
Internet:  www.colasoft.com
GFI EventsManager
Event logs are a valuable tool to monitor network security and performance that are often underutilized due to their complexity and volume. As organizations grow in size, they require a more structured approach towards event log management and retention.
A recent survey carried out by SANS Institute found that 44% of system administrators do not keep logs more than a month.

GFI EventsManager collects data from all devices that use Windows event logs, W3C, and Syslog and applies the best rules and filtering in the industry to identify key data. This allows you to track when staff swipe their fob, pick up the phone to call home, turn on their PC, what they do on their PC and which files they access during their work day. GFI EventsManager also provides you with real-time alerting when critical events arise and suggests remedial action.
Company: GFI
Internet:  www.gfi.com/eventsmanager  |   Download GFI EventsManager
GFI LANguard
GFI LANguard is an award-winning vulnerability management solution that provides security scanning, patch management and network auditing. Used by over 20,000 customers worldwide, it identifies all possible security issues as it scans the entire network and, using its extensive reporting functionality, provides the tools needed to detect, assess, report and rectify any threats.
Over 15,000 vulnerability assessments are carried out across the network, including virtual environments, using vulnerability check databases based on OVAL (2,000+ checks) and SANS Top 20.

Main features:
  • Identify security vulnerabilities and take remedial action
  • Set-up your own custom vulnerability checks
  • Detection of Virtual Machines
  • Automatically deploy network-wide patch and service pack management
  • Automatic remediation of unauthorized applications
  • Remote Desktop Connection
  • Deploys custom/third party software and patches network-wide
  • Extended Hardware auditing facility
  • Automatically receive alerts of new security holes
  • Scan and retrieve OS data from Linux systems
Company: GFI
Internet:  www.gfi.com/lannetscan  |   Download GFI LANguard
GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server
Control your employee’s website browsing habits and monitor downloads in real-time with GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server. Ideal for SMBs needs, GFI WebMonitor is used by thousands of customers and is available at an unbeatable price.
Research by IDC shows that up to 40% of employee internet activity is non-work related! GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server can help boost employee productivity by giving you total control over what your employees can browse and what files they can download in real-time.

GFI WebMonitor also allows you to monitor user downloads in real-time, letting you block file-types such as mp3s. It also scans all files for viruses, spyware and malware using multiple anti-virus engines. This drastically decreases the time to obtain virus signatures, thereby reducing the possibility of infection.

Furthermore, GFI WebMonitor lowers the risk of social engineering by blocking access to phishing websites through the use of an auto-updatable database of phishing URLs.
Company: GFI
Internet:  www.gfi.com  |   Download GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server
GroundWork Monitor Enterprise 6.1
GroundWork Monitor Enterprise provides deep system, network and application monitoring for medium and large-enterprises. Enterprise provides availability and performance visibility in large, heterogeneous and distributed environments by utilizing industry-standards (SNMP, syslog, WMI) and de-facto standards (NRPE, Nagios plug-ins) for data collection.
Enterprise can serve as a customer's only network management system or serve as part of an integrated solution for IT Service Management. An Enterprise deployment may integrate with event log solutions like Splunk and can be easily configured to report its results to the consoles of other major monitoring tools. Try Enterprise for $49.
Company: GroundWork Open Source
Internet:  www.groundworkopensource.com
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 under Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a service and consumes minimal system resources. The interface is web based and all you need is a device with a web browser to control Intellipool. Intellipool 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 TCP Port scan (Firewall test), SSH2, Ping, syslog, eventlog, cpu load, swap file usage, disk space and many others. The program is able to log errors and informational messages to XML file, Syslog, Windows Eventlog or an ODBC database. Notification options include SMS, NotePage, PageGate and of course Email.
Company: Intellipool AB
Internet:  www.intellipool.com
IPHost Network Monitor
IPHost Network Monitor is a reliable network and server monitoring software that allows availability and performance monitoring of web sites and applications, mail, db and other servers, various network resources and equipment using industry standard SNMP (on UNIX/Linux/Mac) and WMI (on Windows).
With IPHost Network Monitor you can monitor both Windows and Unix based networks, various servers and network equipment, availability and performance characteristics of web and other applications. Web Transaction monitor for end-to-end monitoring of e-commerce sites and web applications. You can also use any Nagios plugin to monitor what you need with IPHost Network Monitor. The advanced alerting system provides timely notifications using several means such as e-mail, SMS, and instant messengers; the system is also able to execute correcting actions locally or remotely via SSH. Reporting and graphs are available through a web interface.

Supported Monitoring Methods:
  • SNMP v1/v2/v3
  • WMI - CPU load, available memory, traffic in/out, custom WMI script
  • Web sites and services monitoring - HTTP/HTTPS GET and POST requests including response validation, FTP
  • Database servers - Oracle, MySQL native support, other databases via ODBC
  • Mail - SMTP including actual sending of e-mail, POP3, IMAP
  • File size
  • Disc space
  • Windows service availability
  • Basic connectivity checks - PING, TCP connect, UDP datagram send/receive
  • Running a script or program, including Nagios plugins
  • Remote execution of a script or program via SSH
Supported Alerting Methods:
  • Send e-mail
  • Send SMS (text message) over GSM modem / cell phone
  • Send SMS (text message) over email
  • Execution of a script or program (for automatic problem resolving)
  • Remote execution of a script via SSH
  • Setting SNMP variable value (SNMP SET command)
  • Play sound (both on the host computer and in the Web interface)
  • Show pop-up message
  • Send Jabber message
  • Send ICQ message
  • Send AOL IM message
Company: IphostMonitor Inc.
Internet:  www.iphostmonitor.com  |   www.iphostmonitor.com
Lansweeper : free computer inventory
Lansweeper is an automated inventory, reporting, and PC administration tool.
It can -very quickly- give you complete reports on your company’s server hardware and installed software, as well as a quick overview of "problem areas", such as unauthorized administrators or almost-full hard disks. You don't need to install any client's on your computers, just sit back and let Lansweeper do the work.
Company: Hemoco
Internet:  www.lansweeper.com
ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an availability and performance management software that helps businesses to ensure high availability and performance for their business applications.
Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of
  • J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
  • J2EE Web Transactions,
  • Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
  • IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
  • SOAP Web Services,
  • SAP Servers,
  • Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
  • web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.
Monitor 25 Applications for $795 / Year
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.manageengine.com/appmanager
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
*ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer* is a web-based bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis tool that collects, correlates, and analyzes NetFlow version 5, 7, 9 exported from routers to show you which applications are using bandwidth, who are the top talkers and for how long.
It also supports sFlow, IPFIX, NetStream and J-Flow. It helps you view in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer uses Cisco's NBAR technology and can analyze and identify application traffic in real time. NetFlow Analyzer supports Cisco CBQoS, which helps in monitoring class based pre policy, post policy usage, drops and queuing. It also generates usage based billing, which helps you keep a tab on the bandwidth usage and thus adding tremendous value to your business.

Salient Features:
  • Troubleshoot network incidents faster
  • Ensure application performance
  • Take informed capacity planning decisions
  • Secure your network against threats
  • Create your own IP departments and divisions
  • Automatic alerting when usage thresholds are violated
  • Add custom applications based on ports/hosts
  • Validate the QoS policies
  • Support for usage based billing and charge-back
  • Reporting on Cisco CBQoS
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.netflowanalyzer.com
ManageEngine VQManager
ManageEngine VQManager is a web-based, VoIP Quality Monitoring software that can monitor any VoIP equipment that supports SIP, H.323, Cisco Skinny and RTP/RTCP. It enables IT administrators to monitor their VoIP network for QoS parameters, bandwidth utilization & Call traffic trends. VQManager aids troubleshooting VoIP calls for failures and quality deterioration through instantaneous reports, self-configurable alerts & in-depth fault probing -- all from a single web interface. With over 25 built-in reports, VQManager gives network administrators comprehensive insight about bandwidth usage and traffic patterns over time.
VQManager requires no other special hardware/software for support and it's remotely accessible, user-friendly interface saves precious time & greatly improves administrator productivity. With minimal to zero deployment, VQManager is your fastest and most cost-effective way of ensuring an optimized VoIP communication infrastructure. All features come in-built in a single file download of 33MB:
  • Real-time monitoring of VoIP QoS metrics & MOS scores
  • Proactive operator alerts, Email notifications, SNMP traps
  • Call flow ladders, raw packet views for troubleshooting
  • User-configured call history reports for capacity planning
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.VQManager.com
Nagios
Nagios is a system and network monitoring application. It checks hosts and servicesy, alerting you when things turn out wrong.

Nagios includes the following features:
  • Monitoring network services, incl. (SMTP, POP3, NNTP, PING and more
  • Monitoring host resources, incl. processor load, disk usage and more
  • Offers tools to easily develop their own service checks
  • Simultaneous service checks
  • Support for network host hierarchy using parents and childs hosts
  • Notify when problems occur and get resolved; support for email and pager
  • Web interface for viewing current network status
Company: Nagios
Internet:  www.nagios.org
Netflow Analyzer
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis tool that collects, correlates, and analyzes NetFlow version 5, 7, 9 exported from routers to show you which applications are using bandwidth, who are the top talkers and for how long.
It also supports sFlow, IPFIX, NetStream and J-Flow. It helps you view in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer uses Cisco's NBAR technology and can analyze and identify application traffic in real time. NetFlow Analyzer supports Cisco CBQoS, which helps in monitoring class based pre policy, post policy usage, drops and queuing. It also generates usage based billing, which helps you keep a tab on the bandwidth usage and thus adding tremendous value to your business.

Salient Features:
  • Troubleshoot network incidents faster
  • Ensure application performance
  • Take informed capacity planning decisions
  • Secure your network against threats
  • Create your own IP departments and divisions
  • Automatic alerting when usage thresholds are violated
  • Add custom applications based on ports/hosts
  • Validate the QoS policies
  • Support for usage based billing and charge-back
  • Reporting on Cisco CBQoS
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.netflowanalyzer.com  |   Download Netflow Analyzer
Network Inventory Advisor
Network Inventory Advisor audits all network software and hardware simply and efficiently. Network Inventory Advisor automatically queries all network assets and builds ready-to-use network inventory reports.
It stores inventory snapshots of the whole network and allows tracking all hardware changes, auditing software licenses and collecting invaluable network data. With Network Inventory Advisor you can manage Windows, Mac OS, Linux nodes and other network devices in one place.
Company: ClearApps LLC
Internet:  www.clearapps.com
PacketTrap pt360
PacketTrap pt360 is known for its combination of network monitoring and diagnostic tools, and its simple integration of open source products. The pt360 also has the Cisco Config tool you've been looking for.
Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools in One Customizable Dashboard:
o Edit, upload, download IOS configuration files
o Router configuration editor
o Server and application monitoring
o Netflow analyzer
o Decrypt Passwords
o TFTP server monitoringv o GUI developed by gamers
Company: PacketTrap Networks
Internet:  www.packettrap.com
Quest ChangeAuditor for Active Directory
Quest ChangeAuditor for Active Directory tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on important configuration changes—in real-time. It is designed to prevent unauthorized changes from disrupting your Windows environment.
IT Administrators will instantly know who made a change, what change, and when, where and why. Additionally, IT Administrators get the past and current values for troubleshooting purposes. IT Administrators can then generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for the management—and reduce the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.
Company: Quest Software, Inc.
Internet:  www.quest.com/changeauditor-for-active-directory/
Security Manager Plus
Security Manager Plus is a network security scanner that proactively reports on network vulnerabilities and helps to remediate them and ensure compliance.
It provides detailed inventory of the network assets, assesses network vulnerabilities and identifies devices that are exposed. By deploying missing patches/updates and service packs, Security Manager Plus automatically remediates some open threats to the systems. It also provides solutions to mitigate risks, secure IT environment and generates comprehensive audit reports for compliance and understanding.

Security Manager Plus offers
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Open Ports Detection
  • Hardware/ Software Inventories
  • Patch Management
  • Windows Change Management
  • Audit Reports
  • Compliance Reporting
Company: ManageEngine
Internet:  www.securitymanagerplus.com
Total Network Inventory
Inventory machines on a corporate network as if you were sitting in front of them!
Total Network Inventory is a PC audit and Network inventory software for office and large scale enterprise networks. Total Network Inventory interrogates all computers on a network and reports back with complete information about OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. This information is added to the centralized database and network administrators are able to generate reports about each or all PCs on a network. The program is agent-free and requires no software installed on remote machines.
Company: Softinventive Lab Inc.
Internet:  www.softinventive.com
Zyrion Traverse
Zyrion Traverse is a scalable network & systems monitoring software that presents correlated views of networks, servers and applications.
In addition to systems and network management, Zyrion Traverse also does application monitoring of databases, web apps, java applications, mail servers, exchange, blackberry enterprise server, etc.

Some key features include:
  • Bandwidth monitor
  • Linux Server monitoring
  • Windows Monitoring
  • Cisco router monitoring
  • Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server monitor
  • Exchange, Active directory, etc.
Reports include:
  • SLA
  • Real time event logs, traps, syslogs
  • Capacity planning
  • Performance and Trend analysis
Download free trial from www.zyrion.com
Company: Zyrion Inc.
Internet:  www.zyrion.com