Companies of all sizes must make sure their network has enough bandwidth to handle business-critical operations. The Bandwidth Gauge tool in SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset™ (ETS) allows you to create custom bandwidth gauges and start collecting statistics right away. You can set the gauges to update at certain intervals, view data in a table format, and view historic bandwidth data in intuitive charts with the ability to set gauges for multiple interfaces.
Increased CPU load often means your network has too many demanding apps or you may have a virus on your hands. The CPU monitor included in the network monitoring toolset from ETS allows you to monitor CPU load for multiple devices in real time and represent the data in tabular form. The tool even allows you to set warning thresholds to alert you when your CPU load approaches critical levels. Using these capabilities can help ensure CPU usage doesn’t surpass peak levels or slow down performance.
In addition to measuring your network’s bandwidth, you must also know how your bandwidth is being used. Networking monitoring tools like the NetFlow Real-Time tool in ETS can show you different kinds of inbound and outbound network traffic to offer enhanced visibility into Cisco NetFlow data, which can help you break down traffic according to a variety of metrics around applications, endpoints, conversations, domains, and more. This tool can also speed up troubleshooting by pinpointing and helping you more quickly diagnose traffic spikes.
Latency is a measure of your network’s speed in milliseconds. When networks are stressed, latency increases, and requests take longer to be fulfilled, which causes dropped packets and performance issues.
Proxy Ping helps you determine latency between two sites or two SNMP-enabled devices, even if they’re remote. You can also execute ping tests on Cisco routers to drill down on latency issues and more easily mitigate their effects before they start impacting end users.
Bandwidth issues and network segment failures can occur anywhere in your network, and you can’t spend time searching during a slowdown.
Network monitoring tools with TraceRoute can help you diagnose response-time problems by automatically tracing network paths and highlighting any performance issues along that path in real-time. TraceRoute is designed to display domain names and response times for each hop plus machine type, ISO level, and boot time for each network path to help you troubleshoot quicker.
Do you find yourself asking…
Network monitoring tools are tools to help admins streamline, automate, and optimize network monitoring best practices.
As more devices, endpoints, applications, and servers are added to account for rapidly changing business needs, network monitoring can become more complex and nearly impossible to do manually.
When end users report an error or performance issue, it’s important to find the problem as quickly as possible—but is the problem being caused by an application, too many users, an overall network issue, or something else entirely? How can you easily filter out the noise to pinpoint the true cause of a bottleneck?
To resolve issues quickly, you can use a range of network monitoring tools with pinpointed functions to troubleshoot more effectively. Network monitoring tools should be able to execute the following tasks to help you streamline and optimize your network monitoring best practices:
Network administrator monitoring tools are designed to offer admins the data and metrics necessary to help keep networks healthy.
Network monitoring tools are tools to help admins streamline, automate, and optimize network monitoring best practices.
As more devices, endpoints, applications, and servers are added to account for rapidly changing business needs, network monitoring can become more complex and nearly impossible to do manually.
When end users report an error or performance issue, it’s important to find the problem as quickly as possible—but is the problem being caused by an application, too many users, an overall network issue, or something else entirely? How can you easily filter out the noise to pinpoint the true cause of a bottleneck?
To resolve issues quickly, you can use a range of network monitoring tools with pinpointed functions to troubleshoot more effectively. Network monitoring tools should be able to execute the following tasks to help you streamline and optimize your network monitoring best practices:
Network administrator monitoring tools are designed to offer admins the data and metrics necessary to help keep networks healthy.
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