Managing a network is a very big functional area along with performance, device maintenance, security, performance, monitoring, troubleshooting, plan of change and etc. Among all of these monitoring plays a vital role. It can cover a wide area of network management.
Monitoring is the only way to find out whether the network s functioning according to plan. In order to know what is happening in a network,how its functioning at any given time, a network should have a logging system. Nowadays this logging activity is done by Network monitoring tool. It lets user know the status of the network at any given time. This logging can give the user a wide view what can’t be seen in general. For example the statistics of a week or month, even a year.
Monitoring is a very important issue in an organization network which arose over the time.In this project we are going to implement some well known network monitoring tools in a real world scenario and we will investigate how this monitoring tool can help network administrators to monitor a network .
Moreover, what kind of information we can extract from a network by these tools.The purpose of this project is to get an overall idea about the importance of network monitoring and what are the facts need to be considered while monitoring a network. There are lots of pros and cons in monitoring a network.
So choosing the appropriate tool for monitoring is very important. Monitoring a network with the least effects on network performance is the best solution in case of monitoring.The outcome from these monitoring tools is a wide range of useful data and integration of these data produces the status of the network at any give time.
Moreover these data will be logged to create a statistical report. Different users such as a network admin and organization can use this information from different perspectives to make a network more efficient for users.
Source: Halmstad University
Authors: Adekunle Matthew | Hasan Khan | Neelam Abdullah