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What is the best Network Monitoring Tool you ever used?

<p>And which tool helps find the source of traffic when you haven't a Netflow enabled in your devices.  </p>

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Question added by Abdullah Al-Bataineh , Senior NOC Engineer , viacloud
Date Posted: 2015/01/05
Salman Ahmed
by Salman Ahmed , Sr. System Engineer , Alpha Data

1. HP OpenView

2. KASEYA

3. Microsoft Network Monitor

4. WireShark

5. Nagios

6. Advanced IP Scanner

7. Total Network Monitor

Ahmed Maher ِAbdelmaksoud
by Ahmed Maher ِAbdelmaksoud , Technical Support , Al Motahidoun

Solarwinds and PRTG Network Monitor

Priagusta Agrinegara
by Priagusta Agrinegara , Regional Coordinator , PT. Pgas Telekomunikasi Nusantara (PGNCOM)

If you want to try deploy and configure network monitoring tool from scratch, then Cacti is the best approach. But, if you just want deploy and use it as it is, you can consider Solarwinds and PRTG Network Monitor.

 

Muhammad Ahsan Javed
by Muhammad Ahsan Javed , System and Network Administrator , Lahore School of Economics

the best network monitoring tool is PRTG.

Salman Aziz
by Salman Aziz , Network Security Administrator , Agility - Kuwait

it depends money v free

Free / open source = Nagios/ cacti / Zabex

paid = Solarwinds / whatsup gold/ HP Open view

Mukhtar Mahamed
by Mukhtar Mahamed , Network Administrator , TELESOM Company

For free and opensource I would say Zenoss and Nagios are good tools.

 

For paid tools, PRTG is the best as far as I know

Muhammad Naeem Tahami
by Muhammad Naeem Tahami , Desktop Support Engineer , Al-Khafji Joint Operations (Aramco Gulf Operations (AGOC))

Best tool is wireshark and Nagios.

Mohamed Asik Uthumalebbe
by Mohamed Asik Uthumalebbe , System test Engineer , MADAR HOLDING

HP OpenView is the best and most comprehensive compare to other tools

 

Yaseen Khan
by Yaseen Khan , IT NETWORK SECURITY SUPPORT ENGNEER , Ministry of culture and information riyadh

prtg 

cola soft

advance ip sccaner

colasoft maca address

Hussain Idris
by Hussain Idris , Team Leader , Fast Telecommunication Co. (FASTTELCO)

its Solarwinds and MRTG and Alcatel-lucent network analyzer.

Solar Winds,Cacti

OSS is tool which helps to find the source of traffic when a netflow not enabled

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