Network Monitoring System

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Gain end-to-end visibility for your network using a network monitoring system

SolarWinds^® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring system designed to help you achieve comprehensive monitoring, starting with discovery. NPM’s network device scanner automatically finds the devices on your network, making it easier for you to stay on top of monitoring. You can also visualize connections between devices, applications, and connections using network topology mapping tools. This helps improve visibility and can aid troubleshooting.

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Speed up troubleshooting and reduce downtime with a multi-vendor network monitoring system

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Network monitoring is important for keeping business-critical operations running smoothly. If your network seems slow, NPM can calculate network response time and break down over 1,200 applications according to risk level and business function. This helps you determine whether network response time issues are being caused by one application or network-wide issues. NPM also gives you a clear view of performance metrics, link utilization, and more, so you can troubleshoot before issues start to affect end users.

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Perform detailed analysis to dig deeper into network performance

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NPM comes equipped with numerous features designed to take troubleshooting and network performance monitoring to the next level. You can drag and drop different performance metrics onto a single timeline using the PerfStack^™ feature, which helps you identify root causes faster and reveal connections between network performance issues that may otherwise appear isolated. NetPath™ allows you to perform hop-by-hop analysis along critical paths across devices and applications on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.

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Increase operational efficiency using a network monitoring system equipped with intelligent alerts

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You need a network monitoring system to alert you to performance issues fast. NPM analyzes historical data and uses them to set network performance baselines. You can configure NPM to send alerts when these baselines have been met or in response to other significant changes like request failures, low server health, high CPU usage, and more. Alerts also display detailed information like node name, time the alert occurred, and alert severity, so you can troubleshoot the most serious issues first.

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Easily monitor wireless devices with a network monitoring system

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NPM offers wired and wireless device monitoring in one network monitoring system. This solution features Wi-Fi monitoring software to categorize and recognize wireless devices, and you can monitor them alongside wired devices. Wi-Fi maps update every five minutes to reflect your network’s changing connectivity, giving you an accurate picture of your coverage. Also, NPM’s filter feature makes it easy to find the wireless device performance data, traffic, and configuration details you need.

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Do you find yourself asking…

What is a network monitoring system?
Why should I monitor my network?
What are some key features of a network monitoring system?
What are network monitoring best practices?
How to monitor a network
How to use a network monitoring system to improve the performance of my network

Network monitoring is the practice of continuously monitoring a network and its components for performance issues, failures, or deficiencies. Even the most well-designed network isn’t immune to slowdowns, and proactive monitoring helps you stay up to date on what’s going on in your network, so you can resolve performance issues or bottlenecks before they become full-fledged outages affecting end users.

You can use network monitoring systems to automate the most time-consuming and labor-intensive aspects of network monitoring, maximize your time and effort, and uncover key insights you might have missed with manual network monitoring.

Here are six top network monitoring best practices for admins.

Establish performance baselines: Making a note of how your network performs over a couple of weeks or even a few months will help you understand what “normal” is for your network. Once you know your network’s normal, you’ll notice when performance is slower than usual and be able to troubleshoot much faster.
Create an escalation plan: Sometimes in large businesses, small network issues become big network issues because alerts are ignored or the right person doesn’t know there’s a problem. To prevent this, set up a policy that clearly lays out who must be alerted when a problem is detected. This helps ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Consider every layer: A failure can happen at any time and at any layer within your network. As such, you should use a network monitoring system to support multiple devices on multiple levels, making problem detection easier.
Combine High Availability (HA) with failover options: If your network monitoring system is set up in the network itself, it can go down with the network if there’s a widespread malfunction. High Availability (HA) ensures your network monitoring system doesn’t have a single point of failure, so even if the entire network goes down, you’ll still be able to retrieve your data and start troubleshooting. It’s best to set up a failover system at a remote DR site.
Follow configuration management best practices: Most network performance issues stem from incorrect configurations. For example, if a user adds a new service to the network and adds new firewall rules, the rules might end up blocking a business-critical application somewhere else in the network. Effective configuration management can help admins keep track of what changes have been made in the network and ensure there are no conflicts.
Don’t forget about capacity planning: When selecting a network monitoring system, make sure you give yourself room for growth. Starting with a small-scale solution and upgrading later can be more expensive in the long run.

Network monitoring is the practice of continuously monitoring a network and its components for performance issues, failures, or deficiencies. Even the most well-designed network isn’t immune to slowdowns, and proactive monitoring helps you stay up to date on what’s going on in your network, so you can resolve performance issues or bottlenecks before they become full-fledged outages affecting end users.
You can use network monitoring systems to automate the most time-consuming and labor-intensive aspects of network monitoring, maximize your time and effort, and uncover key insights you might have missed with manual network monitoring.
The primary reason you should monitor your network is to proactively reduce downtime. Occasional periods of downtime are inevitable, but repeated failures and outages can be costly. IT downtime can cost businesses millions per year, while IT teams can easily spend days fixing a single downtime issue. It’s much more effective to prevent downtime from occurring in the first place whenever possible.
Network monitoring keeps you up to date on what’s going in your network, so you’re better able to spot, diagnose, and fix issues before they cause downtime. Network monitoring also ensures uptime by helping you make sure your systems stay healthy and available.
Other benefits of network monitoring include:
Reducing operating costs
Visualizing your network performance
Facilitating proactive maintenance
Network monitoring systems can be divided into three main types: active, passive, and performance. Active network monitoring systems display a network’s immediate health by routinely running tests and waiting for a response, while passive network monitoring systems only alert when a certain event has been logged, like an SNMP trap. Performance monitors collect long-term data from your network and display it in various ways for analysis. In contrast to active and passive network monitoring systems, performance monitors are typically focused on the longer term.
Admins often use a combination of these solutions to get a clear overview of system health. The best network monitoring systems share these five core features:
Discovery: Automatically searching for all devices and applications on your network
Monitoring: Consistently monitoring all network devices, applications, and wireless access points and paying attention to critical metrics like uptime or disk space
Visualization or Mapping: Mapping out connections between elements within your network to offer ultimate end-to-end visibility and improve analysis
Reporting and Alerting: Generating historical and comparative reports of network performance and sending real-time notifications when performance issues occur
Analysis: Offering special features to aid troubleshooting and help you drill down on root causes
Here are six top network monitoring best practices for admins.
Establish performance baselines: Making a note of how your network performs over a couple of weeks or even a few months will help you understand what “normal” is for your network. Once you know your network’s normal, you’ll notice when performance is slower than usual and be able to troubleshoot much faster.
Create an escalation plan: Sometimes in large businesses, small network issues become big network issues because alerts are ignored or the right person doesn’t know there’s a problem. To prevent this, set up a policy that clearly lays out who must be alerted when a problem is detected. This helps ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Consider every layer: A failure can happen at any time and at any layer within your network. As such, you should use a network monitoring system to support multiple devices on multiple levels, making problem detection easier.
Combine High Availability (HA) with failover options: If your network monitoring system is set up in the network itself, it can go down with the network if there’s a widespread malfunction. High Availability (HA) ensures your network monitoring system doesn’t have a single point of failure, so even if the entire network goes down, you’ll still be able to retrieve your data and start troubleshooting. It’s best to set up a failover system at a remote DR site.
Follow configuration management best practices: Most network performance issues stem from incorrect configurations. For example, if a user adds a new service to the network and adds new firewall rules, the rules might end up blocking a business-critical application somewhere else in the network. Effective configuration management can help admins keep track of what changes have been made in the network and ensure there are no conflicts.
Don’t forget about capacity planning: When selecting a network monitoring system, make sure you give yourself room for growth. Starting with a small-scale solution and upgrading later can be more expensive in the long run.

"SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor helps us to know if anything goes wrong within the environment."

Esam Alaslmy

IT Network Engineer

Maalem Financing Company

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Network Performance Monitor

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Troubleshoot quickly and effectively.
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