Network monitoring conventionally consists of tracking a system's data traffic to help identify choke points or to analyze hardware or application problems. Nagios and MRTG are useful, Open Source monitoring utilities that operate with Linux and can be used to understand mixed-platform environments where UNIX family systems and Windows coexist. Progent's system support experts can help you deploy each of these tools to optimize and repair your infrastructure.
Nagios Open Source Monitoring System
The Nagios network monitoring application is a host and service monitor that runs with Linux or a UNIX variant. The monitoring daemon executes intermittent checks on servers and services you specify using external add-ons which bring back status information to Nagios. When issues are encountered, the Nagios can send notifications to administrative contacts in a variety of ways such as email, IM, or SMS. Up to date status information, archival logs, and reports can be examined using a standard web browser.
Key capabilities of Nagios are:
MRTG
Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is an Open Source utility to monitor the bandwidth utilization on a network. Running under Windows or Linux and most UNIX platforms, MRTG reads the traffic counters of network routers and generates web-accessible graphs which offer a live intuitive depiction of this data.
Multi Router Traffic Grapher lets you graph the traffic in and out of any SNMP network device. This includes servers, routers, and switches. You can utilize the resulting data to identify system bottlenecks.
Type of information you can graph using MRTG include:
Contact Progent about Network Monitoring Consulting
Progent's network monitoring consultants are skilled in using a number of network monitoring tools that can assist you to troubleshoot or tune your network infrastructure. For network monitoring consulting, call Progent at
Progent's Consulting Services for UNIX-family Environments
Progent's UNIX-family consulting experts offer small businesses and software developers help with administering and supporting UNIX/Linux/Mac-based systems that can coexist with Microsoft technology. Progent offers your organization access to UNIX support professionals, certified Microsoft consultants, Cisco CCIEs, and security specialists accredited by CISSP and CISM. This broad array of expertise gives your company a convenient one-stop resource to assist you to build and support a secure and resilient cross-platform connectivity and communications solution that blends Microsoft technology with popular versions of UNIX such as:
Apple macOS and OS X ,
Solaris,
IBM AIX Operating System,
HP-UX,
BSD,
SCO UNIX and
Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX) or important Linux distributions including
RedHat Linux,
SUSE,
Debian GNU/Linux and
CentOS Linux,
Ubuntu Linux,
Mandriva,
PCLlinuxOS Linux,
fedora Linux, and
Gentoo.