I need a piece of software that will monitor traffic throughout a network and be able to identify any corrupt or damaged packets being sent.
And if possible a utility / plugin or plugin of the software to be able to report on which desktop / server is sending / receiving the highest percentage or network transmissions.
Any recommendations would be great, very urgent - even paid one’s if you have to..
(bar Cisco’s Network Monitor - $14,999)
Nagios - http://www.nagios.org/
Formerly known as SAINT. OSS, so it’s free.
Main features:
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
- Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.)
- Monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature
- Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks
- Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
- Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or other user-defined method)
- Optional escalation of host and service notifications to different contact groups
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
- Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers
- External command interface that allows on-the-fly modifications to be made to the monitoring and notification behavior through the use of event handlers, the web interface, and third-party applications
- Retention of host and service status across program restarts
- Scheduled downtime for supressing host and service notifications during periods of planned outages
- Ability to acknowlege problems via the web interface
- Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
- Simple authorization scheme that allows you restrict what users can see and do from the web interface