Local network monitoring system. Programs for system administrators, programs for the network

A previous article listed 80 monitoring tools Linux systems... It also made sense to make a selection of tools for the Windows system. Below will be a list that serves only as a starting point, there is no rating here.

1. Task Manager

The well-known Windows Task Manager is a utility for displaying a list of running processes and the resources they consume. But do you know how to use its full potential? As a rule, it controls the state of the processor and memory, but you can go much further. This app is pre-loaded at all operating systemsah Microsoft.

2. Resource Monitor

An excellent tool for estimating CPU usage, random access memory, network and drives in Windows. It allows you to quickly get all the information you need about the health of critical servers.

3. Performance Monitor

The main tool for managing Windows performance counters. Performance Monitor, earlier windows versions known to us as the System Monitor. The utility has several display modes, displays performance counters in real time, saves data to log files for later study.

4.Reliability Monitor

Reliability Monitor - System stability monitor, allows you to track any changes in computer performance, you can find the stability monitor in Windows 7, in Windows 8: Control Panel\u003e System and Security\u003e Action Center. With the help of Reliability Monitor, you can keep a record of changes and failures on the computer, the data will be displayed in a convenient graphical form, which will allow you to track which application and when caused an error or hung, track the appearance blue screen death of Windows, the reason for its appearance ( next update Windows or program installation).

5. Microsoft SysInternals

SysInternals is a complete suite of programs for administering and monitoring Windows computers. You can download them yourself for free on the Microsoft website. Service programs Sysinternals help manage, troubleshoot, diagnose applications and operating windows systems.

6. SCOM (part of Microsoft System Center)

System Center is a complete set of tools for IT infrastructure management, with which you can manage, deploy, monitor, configure Microsoft software (Windows, IIS, SQLServer, Exchange, and so on). Alas, MSC is not free. SCOM is used for proactive monitoring of key IT infrastructure assets.

Monitoring Windows Servers with the Nagios Family

7. Nagios

Nagios has been the most popular infrastructure monitoring tool for several years (for Linux and Windows). If you are considering Nagios for Windows, then install and configure the agent to Windows server... NSClient ++ monitors the system in real time and provides outputs from a remote monitoring server and more.

8. Cacti

Usually used in conjunction with Nagios, it provides the user with a convenient web interface to the RRDTool utility designed to work with Round Robin Database, which are used to store information about changes in one or more values \u200b\u200bover a certain period of time. Statistics in network devices, is presented in the form of a tree, the structure of which is set by the user, you can build a graph of channel use, use of HDD partitions, display resource latency, etc.

9. Shinken

Flexible, scalable open source monitoring system based on the Nagios core written in Python. It is 5 times faster than Nagios. Shinken is compatible with Nagios, it is possible to use its plugins and configurations without making adjustments or additional configuration.

10. Icinga

Another popular open source monitoring system that checks hosts and services and reports their status to the administrator. As a fork of Nagios, Icinga is compatible with it and they have a lot in common.

11. OpsView

OpsView was originally free. Now, alas, users of this monitoring system have to fork out.

Op5 is another open source monitoring system. Graphing, storing and collecting data.

Nagios alternatives

Open software for monitoring and tracking the statuses of various services of a computer network, servers and network equipment, it is used to obtain data on processor load, network usage, disk space, and the like.

14. Munin

Not a bad monitoring system, collects data from several servers at the same time and displays everything in the form of graphs, with which you can track all past events on the server.

15. Zenoss

Written in Python using Zope Application Server, data is stored in MySQL. With Zenoss you can
monitor network services, system resources, device performance, Zenoss core analyzes the environment. This makes it possible to quickly deal with a large number of specific devices.

16. Observium

A system for monitoring and monitoring network devices and servers, although the list of supported devices is huge and is not limited only to network devices, the device must support SNMP.

17. Centreon

A comprehensive monitoring system that allows you to monitor all infrastructure and applications containing system information. Free alternative to Nagios.

18. Ganglia

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system used in high performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. Tracks statistics and computation history in real time for each of the monitored nodes.

19. Pandora FMS

Monitoring system, good productivity and scalability, one monitoring server can control the work of several thousand hosts.

20. NetXMS

Software with open source for monitoring computer systems and networks.

21. OpenNMS

OpenNMS monitoring platform. Unlike Nagios, it supports SNMP, WMI and JMX.

22. HypericHQ

A component of the VMware vRealize Operations suite, used to monitor OS, middleware, and applications in physical, virtual and cloud environments. Displays availability, performance, usage, events, logs, and changes at each level of the virtualization stack (from the vSphere hypervisor to guest OSs).

23. Bosun

An open source alert system from StackExchange. Bosun has a well-thought-out data schema as well as a powerful processing language.

24. Sensu

Sensu is an open source paging system similar to Nagios. There is a simple dashboard, you can see a list of clients, checks and triggered alerts. The framework provides the mechanisms that are needed to collect and accumulate server statistics. Each server runs the Sensu agent (client), which uses a set of scripts to check the health of services, their state and collect any other information.

25. CollectM

CollectM collects statistics on system resource usage every 10 seconds. It can collect statistics for several hosts and send it to the server, the information is displayed using graphs.

28. Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

34. Total Network Monitor

This is a program for continuous monitoring of work local network individual computers, network and system services. Total Network Monitor generates a report and notifies you about the errors that have occurred. You can test any aspect of the service, server or file system: FTP, POP / SMTP, HTTP, IMAP, Registry, Event Log, Service State and others.

35. PRTG

38. Idera

Supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies. There are many free tools that you can use to monitor the system.

39. PowerAdmin

PowerAdmin is a commercial monitoring solution.

40. ELM Enterprise Manager

ELM Enterprise Manager - full monitoring from “what happened” to “what is happening” in real time. Monitoring tools in ELM include - Event Collector, Performance Monitor, Service Monitor, Process Monitor, File Monitor, PING Monitor.

41. EventsEntry

42. Veeam ONE

An effective solution for monitoring, reporting and scheduling resources in the environment of VMware, Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, monitors the state of the IT infrastructure and diagnoses problems before they interfere with the user experience.

43. CA Unified Infrastructure Management (formerly CA Nimsoft Monitor, Unicenter)

Monitors the performance and availability of Windows server resources.

44. HP Operations Manager

This infrastructure monitoring software performs proactive root cause analysis to reduce recovery time and operational management costs. The solution is ideal for automated monitoring.

45.Dell OpenManage

OpenManage (now Dell Enterprise Systems Management) is an all-in-one monitoring product.

46. \u200b\u200bHalcyon Windows Server Manager

Management and monitoring of networks, applications and infrastructure.

Below is a list of the (most popular) network monitoring tools

55. NeDi

Nedi is an open source network monitoring tool.

54. The Dude

The Dude monitoring system, although free, but according to experts, is in no way inferior to commercial products, it monitors individual servers, networks and network services.

55. BandwidthD

Open source software.

56. NagVis

Extension for Nagios, allows you to create infrastructure maps and display their status. NagVis supports a large number of various widgets, icon sets.

57. Proc Net Monitor

A free monitoring application that allows you to track all active processes and, if necessary, quickly stop them in order to reduce the load on the processor.

58. PingPlotter

Used to diagnose IP networks, to determine where network packet loss and delays are occurring.

Small but useful tools

60. Glint Computer Activity Monitor

61. RealTemp

Temperature monitoring utility intel processors, it does not require installation, monitors the current, minimum and maximum temperatures for each core and the start of throttling.

62. SpeedFan

A utility that allows you to control the temperature and fan speeds in the system, monitors the sensor readings motherboard, video cards and hard drives.

63. OpenHardwareMonitor

Our programs for system administrators will help to keep abreast of everything that happens in the computer park and enterprise network, to respond in time to hardware failures and software problems, to minimize costs and downtime. This page provides tools for monitoring the network, servers and hosts, for PC inventory, accounting installed programs and licenses, creating reports on the "hardware" of computers, for traffic accounting, for researching LAN topology and creating graphical diagrams.

The system administrator may also find useful utilities for searching files in local networks and auditing user access to file resources of servers. All these tools will help the sysadmin improve the health of network devices and servers and ensure the proper level of security in the enterprise network.

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Programs for administrators, network utilities

The program for inventory and accounting of installed software and hardware on the PC of the enterprise. "Computer Inventory" allows system administrators to keep track of computers, view configurations of remote computers and lists of installed software, track configuration changes (hardware and software). The program contains a powerful report generator. For example, you can create reports on the presence of certain software on computers and its quantity... When planning upgrades can create a report containing computers with insufficient disk or RAM... Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

- program for administration and visual monitoring of servers and computers on the network, which allows you to observe the current state of devices in a graphical form at any time. LANState monitors devices and signals various events. LANState contains many functions useful for system administrators: sending messages, shutting down remote computers, scanning hosts and ports, receiving various information from remote computers (access to the registry, event log, etc.). Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

- software for monitoring servers and other network devices, monitors the health of hosts / servers and notifies the administrator about problems. Find out in time about the failure (disconnection, running out of server disk space, service stoppage, etc.) and fix the problem with minimal loss of time. The software signals problems with sound, screen messages, e-mail, can run external programs, scripts and services, as well as restart computers and services. Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

- program for searching files and documents on computers on a local network (via NetBios and FTP protocols). Enter the phrase or file masks and find necessary information... When viewing the search results, the files found can be immediately opened, saved to disk, or generated a report. The search uses multi-threaded technology, which significantly speeds up the work. Filters can be set by file size and modification date. Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

- program for monitoring user access to shared folder and files, allows you to find out in time about the connections to the computer of LAN users. The program beeps, displays notifications on the screen, and keeps a detailed log of connections, which records information about who and when connected to the computer's network folders, which files were opened, etc. Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

3.0 FREE!

- scanner of local networks, IP addresses and hosts... This free program allows you to scan the local network and detect active hosts, computers and servers, as well as find open TCP ports. Supports scanning of IP ranges and many protocols for discovering network devices (ICMP ping, port search, NetBios, SNMP, UPnP, ...). If you have administrator rights with windows computers many useful information... Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

Sets of network programs for sysadmins

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Other utilities

- cD cataloger (CD, DVD)... With it you will quickly find required files on CD and DVD discs your collection. SearchMyDiscs helps you organize your CD and DVD collections, allowing you to find the disc you are looking for in seconds. If you are tired of looking for the right disk every time, this tool is for you! Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

- program for analyzing Raw log files of the Apache web server... Creates various reports and histograms on statistics of user access to the website, calculates direct file orders. The analyzer has many settings and filters, which will allow you to get accurate information about your site, downloaded files, and who comes to you and from where. Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008/7 / 8.1 / 2012/10/2016 are supported.

Payment and delivery

When ordering software legal entities payment by bank transfer is accepted. Invoices are issued electronically, an agreement is concluded. Electronic delivery: the distribution is downloaded from our website, registration keys are sent after payment by e-mail... After payment, the original contract and documents for accounting are sent to the buyer by mail.

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Programs for monitoring remote computers.

↓ New in the "Monitoring" category:

Free of charge
Alchemy Eye Pro 11.5 / 8.7.4 Rus is an application that will help you conduct network monitoring or constantly monitor the health and status of servers. The Alchemy Eye application will be able to notify the owner or administrator, even if he is not at the computer, by sending an email or SMS.

Free of charge
NetView 2.94 is an application that can replace the standard Network Neighborhood on a computer. NetView will not only replace you standard means to view the network environment, but it will also help to keep logs, with a list of machines, addresses and descriptions, as well as regularly check the lists for the presence of disabled machines.

Free of charge
InSSIDer 2.1.1.13 is an application for scanning and viewing information about available Wi-Fi networks. The InSSIDer application allows you to view such parameters of the available network connection points as the signal strength, the channel used, the MAC address of the router and its manufacturer, as well as the SSID and / or public name of the network being viewed.

Free of charge
Lan Keylogger 1.1.3 is an application that constantly monitors the Internet and local area network. Lan Keylogger application will help to track all actions of network users and will be most useful when used by administrators with a large number of accountable computers.

Free of charge
The Dude 3.6 / 4.0 beta 3 is a network scanning application. The Dude application can monitor the operation of devices connected to the network, and also warns the administrator if any problem occurs.

Free of charge
Essential NetTools 4.3 Build 267 is an application consisting of a set of network utilities that have the ability to diagnose networks and monitor network connections for your computer.

Free of charge
NetLimiter Pro 3.0.0.11 is an application for monitoring your network traffic. The NetLimiter app will help you monitor every application that uses Internet access or actively manages traffic and controls the speed for data flow.

Free of charge
Iris Network Traffic Analyzer 4.0.7 Beta 1 is the coolest traffic sniffer and monitor. The Iris Network Traffic Analyzer application is easy to configure and intercepts all data.

Free of charge
CommView 6.1 Build 678 is an application for intercepting and analyzing traffic passing through your local network and the Internet. CommView does the job of collecting the data that passes through your modem and then decodes it.

Free of charge
Office Equipment Network Inventory 1.0 is convenient applicationrelieving IT specialists from the duties of routine inventory of office equipment. The application "Network inventory of office equipment" makes it possible to keep records of the material part, the repairs performed and the installed software. The application is divided into two parts: resident and server.

Free of charge
Inventory of Computers on the Network 3.95.1755 is a tool for automatic inventory taking computer networks... The program "Inventory of Computers on the Network" can display all information about hardware or software in the form of a report, with a choice of any combination of parameters.

Free of charge
AdmAssistant 1.1 is free program with an opportunity remote control computers in the local network, as well as having the ability to remove the configuration from remote computers and carry out their inventory. The program also allows you to restart or shut down remote computerand also install on it required programs or delete unnecessary ones.

A hack employee is a disaster for any enterprise or company. Therefore, the question constantly arises of how to control an employee at his working computer and make sure that there are no illegal actions.

Immediately, we note that the employee must be notified (in writing, with a signature) that there is covert surveillance of a computer in the local network. Perhaps only this fact will already help to avoid violations and put the employee on the path of a “hard worker”. If not, then here is a solution for complete control over computers on a local network.

Local network control program

So, the software is called "Mipko Employe Monitor" - a version specifically for corporate networks.

After installation and launch, and you can run it from the desktop or by pressing "ctrl + alt + shift + k", you need to configure user interface - what exactly needs to be monitored and controlled in the local network.

1. 1. On the top left, there is a section where a user from your network is selected, whose log is being monitored at the moment: when expanded, a list of recorded actions will be displayed (depending on the settings).

1. 2. Now directly about the "Tools" - "Settings" functionality. For each user, the "tracking" parameters can be configured individually.

Monitoring allows you to track the following actions:

• - keystrokes;
• - screenshots;
• - activity on social networks;
• - exchange of messages in "skype";
• - visited websites;
• - saving the clipboard;
• - program activity;
• - snapshots from a webcam;
• - call recording;
• - file operations.

Quite extensive functionality. The main things that employers are usually interested in when monitoring users on a local network are screenshots and visited websites.

In order not to face claims of interference with personal information (for example, if you set a view of the visited web pages and saw personal correspondence on social networks), block all social networks and chats, as well as a ban on the installation of third-party software - only what is required for work.

Remote monitoring of a computer on a local network

As a rule, the employer is interested in only two aspects - this is a screenshot of the user's computer on the local network and his viewing of web pages (as mentioned above, employees are familiar with this information).

1. 3. Screen capture settings include the following components:

• - selection of a time interval, indicated either in minutes or in seconds;
• - take a picture when opening a window;
• - take a picture at the click of the mouse;
• - do not take a picture when inactive;
• - snapshot mode ( full Screen, window);
• - and the quality of the picture.

1. 4. In the section "visited websites" it is still easier: select the "type of interception" and whether to save a screenshot.

1. 5. Now about where all this will be stored or sent. In the settings section "Sending":

• - first, set the "Log type" and the pop-up list;
• - set in what format the "HTML" report or "ZIP" archive will be saved;
• - select the type of sorting and the time interval for sending the report;
• - the most basic - where the report will be sent: to mail / ftp / folder on the computer.
• - then enter your username and password, click "Apply".

That's it, now employees, as they say, "Under the hood" - you can monitor the users of the local network.