Commercial Monitoring Tools

Below are Commercial Network Monitoring Tools that not integrated with NMP :

• ActivXperts Network Monitor monitors servers and workstations in your LAN and WAN. The software monitors Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Novell servers for availability.
• AlertCenter provides monitoring, alerting and corrective action automation scheduling. It is part of the MKS Toolkit.
• AlertSite measures, diagnoses, notifies and reports on the availability and performance of servers, URLs, web applications and virtually any Internet connected device or application.
• Analyzer/Sniffers, see also public domain capture tools.
  • ACE Analyst from OPnet is a transactional analysis solution, based on network packet captures.
  • Anritsu provide the MD1230 portable network and IP network performance monitor.
  • Anasil , Analyzer is a software network analyzer of Ethernet networks for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
  • Anue Systems, makes a Net Tool Optimizer that is used to connect multiple monitoring tools to a network link, or one tool to multiple links. This is a hardware device. It is similar to Gigamon.
  • APCON, manufactures a physical layer matrix switch to remotely move and share network monitoring tools using a software interface or scripting.
  • ClearSight provide a Monitoring/Analysis/Network Recording/Sniffer (up through 10Gbits/s), Packet generator. ClearSight's solutions are graphically oriented.
  • Capsa Capsa performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, protocol analysis, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosis.
  • CommView is a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing network packets. It gathers information about data passing through your dial-up connection or Ethernet card and decodes the analyzed data.
  • Cubro provide a network processor based packet handling engine (packetmaster) and software to sniff and analyze packets on multiple links and can eliminate duplicates appearing on multiple links.
  • Distinct Network Monitor is a software packet capture and network protocol analyzer for Windows that translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred.
  • Easy Service Monitor (ESM) will monitor network services to see if they can work properly with a predefined time interval. It runs on Windows.
  • EffeDetect an HTTP packet sniffer, protocol analyzer and file reassembly software based on windows platform. Unlike most other sniffers, it is dedicated to capture IP packets containing HTTP protocol, rebuild the HTTP sessions, and reassemble files sent through HTTP protocol. Its smart real-time analyzer enables on-the-fly content viewing while capture, analyze, parse and decode HTTP protocol.
  • EtherDetect provides a connection-oriented view for analyzing packets.
  • Etherpeek for Windows is an Ethernet network traffic and protocol analyzer designed to assist in troubleshooting and debugging mixed-platform, multi-protocol networks.
  • Finisar provide sniffer like stand alone network test and monitoring devices for 10/100/1G and iSCSI, Infiniband and Fiber Channel.
  • Gigamon Provide a hardware switch to enable connecting a sniffer to multiple links.
  • IPCopper provide an appliance for monitoring network trafic by sniffing it.
  • IP Traffic Monitor provides real-time information about network utilization for each application and store information into a database for history review.
  • Javvin Packet Analyzer software-based network analyzer monitors Ethernet and WLAN traffic in real time, and decode packets and displays in.
  • LANExplorer provides packet capture, decode, filtering, matrix, host table, statistics, theresholding and alarms for Windows hosts.
  • LANGuardian captures and analyzes the traffic flowing through your network switch, stores it in a database, and displays the details in a web browser.
  • LANSurveyor SolarWinds automatically discovers your LAN or WAN and produces comprehensive, easy-to-view network diagrams that integrate OSI Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology data including switch-to-switch, switch-to-node, and switch-to-router port connections.
  • LANWarch Windows software-based network packet analyzer monitors traffic in real time and displays a wide range of statistics in graphical form.
  • LinkFerret tools are designed to provide a comprehensive set of monitoring utilities and packet sniffers to be used for capture, statistical analysis, and protocol decoding in your Ethernet network. It runs on Windows 98/NT4/2000/XP.
  • Netquest OptiCop Converger: Optimizes Network traffic for better utilization of network monitoring tools through the use of link aggregation, packet filtering and interface/protocol translations capabilities.
  • Network Probe is a Windows or Unix network monitor and protocol analyzer providing a picture of the traffic situation on your network and enables you to monitor network traffic in real time, hunt down, identify, and isolate traffic problems and congestions on your network.
  • NetworkActive PIAFCTM (Packet Intercepting, Analyzing, File Constructing Traffic Monitor) network traffic analyzer; packet/protocol analyzer, HTTP file rebuilder, graphical traffic mode (graphical overview of current network communications), and traffic statistics mode. There is also a free for personal and commercial use version that provides a network traffic analyzer plus a packet/protocol analyzer and HTTP file rebuilder.
  • NetScope Graphical network visualisation tool with per-second resolution, real-time and historical data.
  • Observer from Network Instruments is a network analyser (Packet sniffer) for 10/100/1000 100/1000 Full Duplex and Multi trunked Ethernet links, wireless a,b an d g, token ring and FDDI.
  • PacketBoy is a Win9x/NT & Unix packet sniffer analyzer decoder package capable of decoding many of the commonly used LAN protocols.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Has a builit in packet sniffer. Freeware also available.
  • Sniffer resource for product information on both portable and distributed Sniffer protocol analyzers, network troubleshooting white papers, Sniffer University training courses, and free protocol stack posters.
  • Sniff'em is a Windows based Packet sniffer, Network analyzer and Network sniffer.
  • Ultra Network Sniffer for Windows lists network packets in real-time from multiple network cards and also supports packet capture.
  • Unsniff Network Analyzer. Scriptable and extensible network analyzer with fresh new views of protocols URL.
  • VSS Monitoring provides a range of distributed traffic capture systems and taps from 10/100 to 10 GigE for complete, selectable and centralized visibility of networks, improving network analyzer reach and efficiency.
  • WANGuard Sniff is a software sniffer that provides centralized visibility of networks, including traffic accounting reports, traffic tops, IP graphs, traffic anomalies detection.
  • WildPackets Omni fault analysis platform for optimizing network services and improving uptime on enterprise networks.
• Applications/Services/Systems monitoring (Hosted/managed monitoring services)
  • AccelOps integrated monitoring solution, which does security, performance, availability and change monitoring for data centers and cloud services.
  • Advanced HostMonitor is a system management tool that continuously monitors servers' availability and performance. In the event of network errors, HostMonitor will alert the network administrator.
  • Alchemy Network Monitor monitors network servers: TCP/IP, ICMP, IPX/SPX, Oracle, MS SQL, NT EventLog, SQL query, HTTP URL, NT service state, maintains log file and sends notifications if the server goes down. Also marketed in Europe as Alchemy Eye.
  • AlertFox website and web application performance monitoring. Supports transaction monitoring of sites that use complex HTML, AJAX, Flash, Flex, and Silverlight. In-depth root cause analysis for trouble-shooting sporadic issues.
  • AppQos Live! from iTrinergy provides rapid answers in identifying, in real time, the causes of poor application and network performance problems. Usually its delivered via a live CD that turns a pc/desktop/laptop into this tool.
  • Aqualogic Monitoring System helps you to monitor your mission critical applications without installing any agents/software on the production or pre-production environments. AMS lets you to configure the frequency of the monitoring attributes to as low as 15 seconds, which results in real-time monitoring.
  • Argent Argent has three products - The Argent Guardian, a real-time monitoring and alerting system for NT/2000 servers as well as SNMP-compliant devices; The Argent Predictor, a trend-analysis product for both NT/2000 servers and SNMP devices; and The Argent Sentinel, a web monitoring product.
  • Automate Enables a wide range of automation imperatives encompassing data aggregation, application integration, system/application/network monitoring and problem resolution, disaster recovery, file/data backup etc.
  • BBMonitor Windows bandwidth test software to monitor bandwidth usage and speeds. LAN and Internet bandwidth meter.
  • Catchpoint provides web performance monitoring services relying on synthetic agents on multiple locations around the world and JavaScript based performance monitoring of actual end users.
  • Chariot evaluates the performance of networked applications, performs stress tests of network devices and predicts networked application performance prior to deployment.
  • CleverEye provides an availability monitoring software for servers, network appliances, databases and applications.
  • Congruity Inspector collects and presents network LAN-WAN traffic as hyperlinked relationships. View systems, ports, protocols, applications, and content in a relational context so you can understand how each affects everything else. In 3 clicks, Inspector quickly identifies issues associated with slow network, WAN problems, poor application response, connectivity, access control and security.
  • CueVision Windows based tool to monitor website, servers and network devices.
  • CyberGauge using SNMP automatically creates utilization graphs as well as daily, weekly and monthly QoS and utilzation reports.
  • DotCom-Monitor is an External Web Monitoring Service that brings together Monitoring, Reporting, Notification, Escalation and Analysis for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, DNS, FTP, ICMP and SOAP applications.
  • Edoceo provides network and application monitoring services, built with PHP on top of Nagios, pnp4Nagios and OpenVAS
  • egInnovations provide Enterprise Management Products with capabilities involving the ability to offer subscription based remote monitoring through a web browser console, real time monitoring and problem diagnosis and proactive alerts.
  • Express Metrix Network Inventory Software Hardware/software inventory and application usage metering tool for Windows-based network environments
  • ExtraHop Networks Application Performance Management system provides passive, real-time analysis from L2-L7 for proactive early warning and accelerated troubleshooting across network, web, database, and storage tiers, spanning physical and virtual environments. It combines the advanced troubleshooting capabilities of Network Performance Managers with the superior application-level visibility of User Experience Monitors.
  • Eye-on Bandwidth is a bandwidth monitor designed for scalability, speed and security . It has multiple user levels with different privilegies, and is managed by a web interface.
  • EZ-NOC provides a website monitoring tool using distributed servers around the world. It also includes network monitoring tools like: DNS, EMAIL, WEBSITE, SSL, ISP Speed Test, What Is My IP and Whois.
  • Ganymede provides performance management for clients,servers, applications, and the network as an integrated system.
  • Gomez provides diagnostic website and web application monitoring services from 12,000+ global testing locations that help companies to measure end-user web performance and troubleshoot application performance problems.
  • Hosted/Managed Monitoring Services
    • Alaloop provides through a managed service/SaaS mode (internet or intranet) ready to use dashboards to monitoring networks and housing SLA as well as application peformances(QoS and QoE)
    • Alertra Checks (http, https, ping, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, FTP, TCP) web server from multiple stations around the world.
    • iGLASS Network Monitoring Services monitors your network's performance by providing 24/7 NOC monitoring services for your network, servers and critical applications.
    • GMS Live Export blends traditional IT Help Desk, with remote management software to ensure Reseller Partners, and their end customers have one vendor responsible for services and remote management.
    • LogicMonitor is a SaaS-based automated monitoring tool that monitors networks, servers, virtual environments, applications, and storage from a single pane.
    • monitis provides a "24 x 7" website, applications, systems, network and web traffic monitoring service helping users quickly identify faults and deficiencies to ensure continuous operations of their IT infrastructure and maintain business operations that provide the ultimate web experience. Particularly Monitis provides personalized Ajax dashboard interface, checks server performance and availability, generates uptime reports, tracks visitors, checks CPU, memory and other systems resources, and alerts its users in case abnormalities are detected. External end-user checks are performed from geographically dispersed servers as well from customer locations. Internal checks can be performed inside of network firewalls through smart agents.
    • Praetorian Guard is a Hybrid SaaS solution for network and user monitoring, notification and real-time reporting through a Windows GUI. It can inventory installed software and hardware, monitor event logs, user activity and overall computer performance. It is designed to support both centralized administration and distributed management.
    • pingwy Monitoring monitors remotely services like http,https,ftp,dns,telnet,ssh,pop,imap,smtp and alerts you by mail and SMAS when the service goes down by mail. It also allows you to have a precise view of your server's access and load times upon different periods.
    • SecureMyCompany provides hosted, On Demand network and systems management software for a low monthly fee. Solutions include SNMP, WMI, Event Log and many more monitoring features.
    • SiteMonitor is a website uptime and measurement tools that verifies the performance of non-transactional websites up to every minute from 25 points of presence around the world.
    • Speed Test is a meter that monitors your internet connection, web site, cpu, memory, Hard Drives, Wifi, LAN, Processes and much more all in real time and will store all data recorded into an log, so it can be easily imported into almost any application. This data can be used to help in resolving problems with your internet connection or computer. Speed Test allows you to view the data in many ways.
    • TelcoAlert is a hosted solution that monitors and notifies for testing fax systems and circuits.
    • Visual Performance Manager provides enterprise service intelligence to help organizations deliver business services.
    • WatchMouse offers professional remote server monitoring services from 16 locations worldwide: http, https, ftp, pop, imap, dns, etc. Alerting by email, SMS, IM, and pager. Extensive reporting, also useful for SLA monitoring.
  • Heroix Longitude web-based, agentless application monitoring tool.
  • ICmynet.DNS is a free web service for testing the health of DNS domains and DNS servers. More than 30 tests in less than a minute, visualization of DNS errors and server availability.
  • Integrien features centralized, agentless monitoring of web and data base servers/applications. Used to be SiteAlive from CreationPoint.
  • IPCheck Server Monitor Network Up-/Downtime Monitoring Monitors critical network resources and detects system failures or performance problems. Freeware available.
  • ACE Live (formerly Network Physics NetSensory) as of Nov '07) passively monitors network traffic providing utilization by protocol, application, host groups as well as topology, re-try and response time information. Good for real-time monitoring and trouble-shooting, also provides alerts and export of reports to web accessible pages.
  • GFI Network Server Monitor Monitors your network & servers for failures and fixes them automatically. Checks Exchange Server, SQL, Oracle, HTTP/FTP, Disk health & space, event logs
  • IMMonitor, is network monitoring software that can monitor chat content, email content and web surfing activities in your network.
  • internetVista remotely monitors web sites and Internet services for availability (http, https, smtp, ftp, nntp, tcp). Notifications sent via email and SMS. Monitoring centres in United States and Europe
  • Labtech Software includes the following features: Remote Monitoring, Software & Hardware Auditing, Remote Control, Software Deployment, Scripting, Automation, Auto-fixing Software Update, Ticketing, and timekeeping.
  • MonitorIT monitors, detects, alerts, diagnoses, measures, collects and reports on Windows Servers/Workstations, SNMP & SYSLOG Devices
  • mon.it.us is a free web-based service that grants you a suite of tools for monitoring performance, availability, and traffic statistics. You can establish your website's response time and set up alerts for when a service becomes unavailable. You can also set-up weekly, automated benchmarks to see if changes you.ve made impact speed and performance either positively or negatively.
  • MonitorMagic - Server & Network Monitoring is a proactive monitoring/alerting tool for Windows 2003, 2000 and NT servers, workstations and SNMP devices.
  • N-able OnDemand MonITor Online provides 24×7 proactive network monitoring through status, notification and performance reporting without any network reconfiguration.
  • N-central is an IT governance platform for the mid-enterprise that manages information technology and security services from a business perspective.
  • NetMon hardware box that monitors network/service components including: routers; firewalls; file, web, dhcp, dns, syslog servers. Also provides protocol usage, bandwidth utilization, top web users and destinations, latency, up/down time, TCP/IP services.
  • NetStatus workgroup level monitoring application designed to be used in situations where you need to monitor anywhere from 1 to 50 servers or devices on a network.
  • NetVizor provides network monitoring and surveillance software to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PC's on a network.
  • NetworksA-OK appliance, provides end to end monitoring of your network and applications (web, email, database) performance and security.
  • NimTech provides NIME an end-to-end TCPIP performance characterization tool based on a client/server architecture. It allows launching various network tests from & between any location to quantify in real-time the performance of a TCPIP network between two endpoints hosts.
  • NPS Network Performance Services provides network, system, application, and security monitoring products and services via a 7x24 Network Operations Center. All products and services include automated and customized alerting, and web based performance reporting.
  • OPNET Panorama continuously monitors thousands of system and application metrics within each server, across all tiers, and automatically spots performance anomalies with advanced deviation tracking.
  • Orion Applications Performance Monitor brings monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to applications and servers. Discover your applications and get the visibility you need into application performance and the underlying operating systems and servers they run on.
  • Overseer Network Monitor is a W2K network monitor providing easy installation, Microsoft Management Console configuration, and runs as a service to provide rock-solid reliability. Monitors websites, network devices, servers, services, and notifies administrators via Email, pager, cell phone, or net send.
  • PagerEnterprise is an automatic system, server and network monitor and notify remote system and network managers when important events occur. It runs on Windows NT/2000 to monitor servers, logfiles, services, SNMP Mibs, routers, TCP/IP, SNMP, disks, programs, web pages, devices, power, and more across Windows NT/2000, Novell NetWare, UNIX, OpenVMS, HP3000, AS/400, IBM, Linux and others.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Freeware also available.
  • RSP is a cross-platform, agent-based network/server monitoring, analysis, & hardware tracking program with a web interface and an API for plugins.
  • Server Nanny Network Monitor monitors servers and network devices, sends problem notifications, performs actions, and logs performance data.
  • Server Supervisor monitors the availability and performance of various network resources. The program applies resource-specific approach to handle all cases from regular local workstations to complex web and database servers. It can be used by several people simultaneously. They can use a web interface to configure monitors and receive custom alert notifications depending on their roles. The program comes with built-in statistics analysis tool.
  • ServicePATH from Trendium provides plug-and-play service intelligence system that can collect and synthesize data from networks, applications / business processes and OSS. This synthesized data model is then used to assess and assure service delivery in real-time. The system identifies anomalies as they occur, pinpointing their cause and analyzing their effects on services and the business. It can also automatically initiate corrective action.
  • SimpleServerMonitor is an easy to use network server monitoring tool. It supports Ping, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, SMTP/SMTPS, POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, and Custom monitors (supports SSL/TLS).
  • SLA Commander integrates with ACE (also from OPNET) to proactively capture traces of problematic transactions.
  • SuperAgent Monitors all TCP application packets as they travel from the network through the data center and out again, providing a way to measure network round trip time, server response time, data transfer time.
  • uptime software IT Systems Management that monitors, measures and manages across locations (multiple datacenters) environments (physical and virtual), platforms (Windows, Linux, Soalris, AIX, VMware, Novell, HP/UX, etc), applications, and networks.
  • Vantage is Compuware's integrated suite of application performance management products, emphasizing response time metrics integrated with end-to-end performance analysis, presented in both technical and business views.
  • Vigilix event detection and notification software for applications.
  • WatchTower system monitoring and management software application that runs within a Web-based portal environment.
• Big Brother and its clone Big Sister consists of local clients that test system conditions and the availability of network services, and send these status reports to one or more DISPLAY servers where these reports appear as little dots on a web page, or PAGER servers that notify administrators about system problems.
• DUMeter is a Windows tool to provide a visualization of the data that is flowing through your computer's network connection. It includes includes a reporting facility, a notifications and events system
• DSLReports provide measurement reports (e.g. speed tests, security scans, loss).
• elkMonitor monitors your sites around the clock from servers across the globe, elkMonitor will alert you to signs of trouble.
• Emulators
  • Anue Network Emulators are used to generate network latency, delay variation (jitter), packet errors, bit errors and other network impairments in order to test application performance over a WAN prior to deployment.
  • BreakingPoint provides testing tools for application, performance, and security of content-aware network devices.
  • PacketStorm IP Network Emulators reproduce the unfavorable conditions of IP Networks and WANs in a controllable and repeatable lab setting.
  • Shunra develops testing and evaluation tools for internet and intranet based network technologies and products.
• Engineer's Toolkit is a bundle of 49 networking tools that monitors and alerts on availability, bandwidth utilization, and health for hundreds of network devices, provides network diagnostics for troubleshooting and resolving complex network, offers an array of network discovery tools that facilitate IP address management, port mapping and ping sweeps, and eases management of Cisco® devices with tools for real-time NetFlow analysis, configuration management and router management.
• Flow Monitoring
  ACE Live Netflow module uses integrated web-based dashboards to provide a business-centric view of network utilization and application performance to prioritize problem resolution and effectively manage SLAs.
  • Aurora Network Traffic Analysis and Evaluation from IBM.
  • Caligare Flow Inspector from Caligare is a Netflow monitor and analyzer with many graph statistics, low level searching, application recognizer and utilization maps. Available in the US as NetIMonitor through Caligare partner Net US.
  • FlowMon is a NetFlow monitoring solution (IP flows), providing wire speed processing with no packet loss, for all types of networks from 10Mbps to 10 Gbps.
  • ICmy.NetFlow analyzer is an application for deep network traffic investigation, analysis and reporting. It is based on NetFlow statistics, exported from your routers and switches to ICmy.NetFlow server. Highlights: Web based Windows and Linux application,Cisco NetFlow 5 and 9 support (or equivalent: j-Flow, NetStream etc.),Flow statistics based on IP subnets, Hosts, Applications, Protocols, QoS, AS numbers.
  • InMon provides traffic flow monitoring tools for high-speed switches. The software is able to monitor tens of thousands of switch ports continuously, producing real-time top flows charts, and site-wide application-level traffic matrices.
  • Intermapper Flows from Dartware is a NetFlow and SFlow collector and analyzer that lets you see exactly where traffic comes from, who's sending it, and what it's used for. Runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and Unix.
  • NetDetecor from Nicksun a non-intrusive network security monitoring product that (when deployed as part of your data communications infrastructure) inspects traffic flows, detects the activities of intruders, sets alarms, makes continuous copies of data from the network, and analyzes every packet in the network in real-time at production network traffic rates.
  • Netflow from Cisco.
  • Netflow Analyzer is a product specifically meant for Traffic Analysis and Network Forensics, therefore, gives an in-depth visibility into the network traffic, bandwidth utilization, top talkers in the network etc from various flows, such as, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX, Netstream etc. NetFlow Analyzer also has partnership with Cisco and 3COM.
  • NetFlowAuditor profiles flow data to help organizations quickly identify and alert on network anomalies to help resolve performance problems and manage network security and compliance across business services and applications. Highly fault tolerant, scalable and granular. Learns intensive network profiles with real-time, trending, multiviews, scheduled reporting and alerting. ipv6 compliant. Supports Cisco NetFlow v5/7/9, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, NetStream and Flexible NetFlow on Linux and Windows.
  • Netflow TRacker integrates with Visual Performance Manager and uses NetFlow data collected from the routers already deployed throughout your infrastructure.
  • NetQoS uses NetFlow to identify when and where problems are occurring or occurred, identify viruses using real time reporting, remove unwanted traffic instead of unnecessarily upgrading links, view and plan the impact of applications on the network over time.
  • NetIntercept is delivered as a complete system, with hardware and software pre-installed, and captures in real-time and provides later on demand batch analysis of the data.
  • Nexvu Analyzer analyze, classify 3000+ applications and protocols and report 35 metrics related to health, utilization and performance at line speed. It is an application aware network performance monitoring tool with JAVA GUI and full SNMP capabilities. Nexvu also has packet capture and analysis engine and can work as a netflow director. It is available as a software / real appliance and as VMware virtual appliance
  • Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer enables you to quantify exactly how your network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose. Find the bottlenecks, and shut down the bandwidth hogs.
  • Packeteer provides network traffic characterization, using signatures derived from network layers up through 7, it can then use this information to do TCP rate control (using CoS/ToS. DiffServ & MPLS) to ensure timely performance.
  • PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Supports Netflow. Freeware also available.
  • Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer provides detailed network utilization information for the users and applications causing the most traffic using a variety of flow-based technologies.
  • SevOne Dedicated NetFlow Collector (SevOne DNC) is a dedicated appliance for organizations with heavy NetFlow reporting, analysis and troubleshooting requirements, providing in-depth data about traffic flows in terms of applications, protocols and hosts and their impact on the network.
  • sFlow probe from InMon is a monitor/SPAN port probe capable of continuously monitoring application level traffic flows at a full 1Gigabit (over 1,500,000 million packets per second).
  • StealthWatch provides flow-based network performance and security monitoring for enterprise networks.
  • WANGuard Flow is a NetFlow analyzer that provides centralized visibility of networks, including traffic acccounting reports, tops, IP and ASN graphs, traffic anomalies detection.
• FTP
  • FastCopy provides reliable, secure, bandwidth controlled, automated, enhanced file transfer.
  • Trellian Trellian FTP is a file transfer client that allows you to transfer files between your PC and any FTP server on the Internet.
  • WS_FTP for windows provides a fast and easy way to move files securely (with SSL) over the Internet. there is a client and server
• HipLinkXS is a one or two-way wireless data and messaging solution that enables software used for network monitoring, field force automation, email, customer support, help desk, to communicate with data enabled wireless devices, including digital cellular phones, PDAs, one-way and two-way pagers.
• Holistix Web Manager is software installed inside the firewall that monitors and manages all web system components including web servers, databases, urls, applications, etc. Holistix also has a service, called Remote Monitor, that Measures your site's performance 24 hours a day from monitoring locations around the world.
• Internet Control Panel performs checks every five to ten minutes on the availability, performance and content of your website. It also checks other important internet services you depend on; email, file transfer and authorization processes.
• IP Address/Asset Management
  • Inventory Genie is a Discovery based Inventory system, that can automatically build an inventory on any subject (specially network & system inventories ) using simple wizards, parsers and multiple protocols (icmp,snmp,sql,http,telnet, ssh,wmi,registry,open ports,...). It can be used to populates CMDBs. It has many pre-made discovery rules. It has the ability to perform remote actions on selected elements based on the information in its DB, thus enables provisioning.
  • PC Inventory Advisor automatically queries all computers on your network and reports back with details about OS and hotfixes, installed software and hardware, network alerts and visual comparison of configurations.
  • Remote Asset Tracker is a network inventory and PC auditing software designed specifically for medium and large companies.
  • Total Network Inventory is a PC audit and Network inventory software for office and large scale enterprise networks. Total Network Inventory interrogates all computers and notebooks on a network and reports back with complete information about OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. This information is added to the centralized database and network administrators are able to generate reports about each or all PCs (notebooks) on a network. The program is agent-free and requires no software installed on remote machines (laptops).
• ISDNwatch is an ISDN network management suite for your ISDN routers.
• IT Search
  • Paglo discovers everything IT and allows users to search and monitor their server, network, user, and configuration information. The Paglo Crawler is open source and it is free to get started with the service.
  • Splunk allows you to search and navigate IT data from applications, servers and network devices in real-time. It includes logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts, code, and metrics
• Keynote Systems is a supplier of software and services for measuring and managing the responsiveness of web-based applications. KeyNote RedAlert is aWeb site monitoring service that can perform end-to-end checks of your a site every 5 or 15 minutes. It can also monitor DNS, email, news & telnet servers.
• MeasureNet.
• MeterWare for Windows 95/NT & UNIX from Technically Elite.
• Metrica Network Performance Reporting (NPR) is a performance monitoring toolset being used by telecoms operators to manage the quality of service and the capacity of their networks.
• NATManager.
• NEPM (Network Equipment Performance Monitor is a two part software system that captures and analyzes logged performance data from IP networked equipment and reports it via e-mail and web pages. It can be hosted on either a Unix or WinNT system or a combination of these.
• NetArx Network Monitoring System monitors client systems and reports information to the Netarx Network Operations Center ("NOC"); a fully staffed vault operating 24 hours a day. The NOC notifies on-site contacts of service failures and proactively detected potential problems.
• Network Security Monitoring Tools
  • GFI LANguard network vulnerability scanning, patch management and auditing solution.
  • Lan-Secure Security Center: Network security monitoring software that provides real-time intrusion detection and prevention by enforcing network policy organization rules and online network users activity management.
  • Net Detective iPhone application Using low level techniques common to NMap and other powerful network auditing tools, NetDetective will expose open TCP ports, UDP ports, and UPnP/Bonjour services running on your network.
  • Network Enforcer Network security software that monitors user behaviors using security filters.
  • Nsauditor is a network security scanner that allows to audit and monitor network for possible vulnerabilities,checks methods that a hacker might use to attack it. Over 45 network tools for monitoring, scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining access to machines (access to secured shares and confidential files, also detects and logs network access to shared folders).
  • QRadar isolates the source and identifies corrective measures for dangers hiding in daily network activity.
  • PSentry provides Internet policy control, surveillance and reports in a single tool. Through its management web console, manager can define firewall-like policies over users IM use, file transfers, email, web-surf behaviors.
  • Sentinel analyzes an up-to-date model of the production network to perform automated and systematic configuration audits and diagnose device misconfigurations, policy violations, inefficiencies, and security breaches.
  • System Shepherd delivers end-to-end application visibility (from end-user experience to network to application internals). It is provided as a software service that can optionally be coupled with managed services. The level of optional management is flexible. It can range from Managed Alerting to multi-dimensional SLA-based application management.
  • Techout helps companies measure and optimize the speed and availability of critical online applications, from establishing performance objectives to maintaining peak performance, Techout helps companies measure and optimize the speed and availability of critical online applications.
  • WFilter is an Internet filtering software that can help organizations to monitor and manage all Internet behaviors on their networks. You only need to install WFilter in one computer to monitor your whole network.
  • ZoneRanger from Tavve is a secure network management proxy appliance for the DMZ; it proxies SNMP GET/SET, SNMP Traps, syslog, NetFlow, sFlow, IP status, and TCP port status, delivering the proxied traffic to a network management platform or tool.
• Network Tools has a suite of online IP and DNS tools that can be run both locally and remotely to check for any Network Errors.
• NetPredict helps you monitor, predict and optimize the performance of distributed business applications.
• Network Health family from Concord.
• NetMedic.
• Net-One-1, monitors your company's network devices 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• NetOps provides a set of tools for monitoring, logging and reporting network status, focussing on preventive maintenance.
• NetReality provides monitoring and QoS shaping on all OSI layers, from 1 - 7 on WAN links. Real-time and historical reports are provided.
• NetScout Drawing on information generated by NetScout's application-aware probes, intelligent active agents and data collected directly from network devices strategically placed throughout the WAN, SAN, and LAN, the nGenius Performance Management System monitors, troubleshoots, performs capacity planning and reports on the application traffic flowing across the network.
• NextPointS3 provides the ability t define, measure, baseline and report on service levels at many levels from the core network to end user applications.
• PingGraph is a multi-threaded graphical TCP/IP network monitoring and diagnostic tool for Windows 95 and NT.
• Procom+ ISDN/Modem monitoring
• ResponseNetworks provides tools for network service level monitoring and measurements.
• RIPmon provides remote monitoring over IP networks using an agent that physically connects to and communicates with any element through LAN ports, serial ports and/or contact closures. Once connected the agent units interact with the device in native format and translate user queries into SNMP and HTTP responses.
• ROMmon develops easily deployable online network performance metric (passive and active) monitoring system for networking professionals. The system's emphasis are on data aggregation, high availability and high scalability.
• SAA Service Assurance Agent built into Cisco IOS release 12.0(5)T allows measuring response time, net resources, availability, jitter, connect time, packet loss and application performance.
• SftpDrive Maps any SSH server as a Windows network drive. Provides transparent and secure integration of the remote filesystem into Windows without requiring additional server software or configuration.
• Silverback's InfoCare delivers real-time and historical information on faults, assets, performance and security across networks, systems and applications through a unified Web-based interface.
• SNMP Tools:
  • AdventNet SNMP API can be used to build system management, application management and network management applications and applets. It includes class libraries and Java beans for Java SNMP development, as well as a complete MibBrowser for interacting with SNMP enabled devices. The AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition provides a complete GUI-based development environment to build standalone SNMP agents, Multi-Protocol agents, and standalone TL1 agents. Also see AdventNet ManageEngine JMX Studio a 100% Java-based development environment that provides Java, J2EE, and EAI middleware application developers, the ability to build JMX and SNMP-based manageability for their applications. It also comes with options for other protocol adaptors like HTML, RMI, CORBA, SOAP, and AMI adaptor for plugging into different types of management consoles.
  • Denika Performance Trender is a trending tool that collects and graphs SNMP details for interface utilization, CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Frame Relay, Database Resources, QoS, Port Errors etc.
  • LoriotPro a generic SNMP manager
  • MIW Multiple Interface Watcher is a graph utility that shows the utilisation of up to 20 different interfaces. The data is requested from the devices using SNMP. MIW is an advanced development of Interface Traffic Indicator that focuses more on the utilization overview of many interfaces than on much information of one interface.
  • OidView is a modular network management analysis tool that uses the SNMP protocol to talk to various agents and devices on a computer network, offering a variety of plug-in modules like a MIB Browser, MIB Manager, Trap Manager, PDU Capture, etc.
  • NetVoyant Provides SNMP-based performance metrics for managing network infrastructure, devices, and services
  • Open NerveCenter is a network management platform, based on SNMP, that is extensible using PERL. NerveCenter correlates events in real time from network and security devices, UNIX and NT systems and applications to improve availability, performance and security.
  • OPENXTRA has a set of SNMP utilities.
  • Quallaby provides PROVISO 2.0, network monitoring and service assurance solution for network service providers.
  • SNMP Explorer provides a tree view of your SNMP managable devices, provides a way to talk to or from the devices, provides a flexible log of transactions, and permits you to transact with the devices with simple yet powerful scripts.
  • SNMP Informant is installed on Windows hosts to enable them to provide SNMP information.
  • SNMP Research
  • SNMP Sweep Engineer's Toolset queries an IP address range to determine which IP addresses are used and which are unused.
  • TrapBlaster SNMP trap management engine that receives, filters and converts SNMP traps. They may then be forwarded to your network management applications.
  • Unbrowse SNMP. A visual SNMP MIB browser, compiler, walker.
  • WinTDS monitors IP-SNMP devices and gives a variety of real-time views of the network status.
  • XRate1 SNMP based network monitoring with statistical tags and OPC Server available.
• Shiva Network Manager
• Shiva InterNet Manager
• StatScope from IP Sciences is an outsourced service providing a customized IP network monitoring and reporting capability.
• TelAlert from CalAmp a package for enunciating alerts and managing via pagers, email, pop up windows etc.
• Third Watch Server Monitor will allow you to monitor all of your critical servers and services on an IP network and be notified of any changes in their status. It is a server monitoring program using TCP/IP. It can monitor via Ping, HTTP, FTP or any other TCP/IP port.
• Topology/Traceroute based tools
  • EdgeScape from Akamai, maps user IP addresses to their geographic and network point of origin. This information is assembled into a vast knowledge base and made available to Edgescape customers.
  • GeoBoy Allows you to view traces on a flat map or 3D globe. Incorporate geographical features such as cities, rivers, and political boundaries. Zoom in on areas of interest. Save and restore trace data. Rotate and manipulate maps. Update and customize geographical location cache files.
  • NeoTrace provides graphical traceroute information.
  • PingPlotter is an enhanced traceroute program for Windows 95/98/NT/W2K/XP.
  • Route Explorer provides visibility, analysis and diagnosis of IP networks from a routing point of view
  • SMARTHawk from Solana Networks is an IP network monitoring and diagnostics tool focused on topology, routing and qos
  • VisualRoute a GUI based traceroute for Windows.
• Triticom has software based network protocol analyzers, LAN traffic monitors, RMON probes, and an SNMP manager.
• USR Total Control.
• View2000 runs under Windows NT and has the ability to monitor multi-vendor network equipment configurations, using flat file databases for speed and Oracle RDBMS for SQL report queries, and NOT using SNMP.
• Viola Networks provides NetAlly and other tools that include a suite of tests to provide "true" Service Level Management (SLM), the ability to audit policies and Quality of Service (QoS), and automatically conduct preventive maintenance tests to discover hidden problems in the network.
• VisualPulse from DataMetrics provide realtime and historical reports on RTT & loss.
• Vivere Networks have a wireless sensor that monitor and analyze multi-AP topologies in real-time, including 802.11 packets for all access points in range as well as other IP network traffic.
• VoIP (Voice over IP)
  • ACE Live VoIP Monitoring module supplies real-time and historical data in a business context including both application performance and call quality.
  • AppNeta Uses standard protocols (ICMP and/or UDP) to transmit small packet configurations across the actual path the application takes. These packets vary in size, pattern, and spacing to fully characterize the network path. Detects signatures used to identify the likely cause of the problem, including MTU mismatch, QoS mismatch, duplex mismatch, media errors, path congestion, excessive packet reordering, etc.
  • NetQuest from Tekno Telecom non-intrusively monitors converged wireline, wireless and next-generation networks (including SS7, SIP, Sigtran, H.248, IMS, 4G and LTE) deriving business intelligence and generating network call/session detail records for Troubleshooting, Call Trace, Protocol Analysis, Quality of Service, Inter-Carrier Billing, Fraud Prevention, Revenue Assurance, Roamer Analysis, Surveillance, Billing Verification, and Alarming.
  • netrounds is a cloud-based solution using distributed active measurement probes which are easily downloaded and deployed on PC hardware. It supports concurrent monitoring of SIP signalling perfomance and ongoing call quality, as well as live IPTV MPEG monitoring in combination of flexible TCP/UDP traffic generation up to 10 Gbit/s.
  • NetQoS VoIP Monitor Network-based call setup and call quality monitoring product that tracks the call quality users experience, provides alerts on call performance problems, and isolates performance issues to speed troubleshooting and MTTR.
  • Orion VOIP Monitor proactively analyze VoIP quality across WAN links, as well as monitor the underlying systems and protocols that the VoIP environment relies upon.
  • Prognosis provides systems management software for performance monitoring of IP telephony, VOIP, availability, network management, Windows, UNIX and Linux.
  • QOVIA provides Voice over IP monitoring and management, sends alerts when it predicts call quality will be affected.
  • SevOne VoIP Telephony Monitoring, enables organizations to monitor the quality of experience for their VoIP applications from the same system and web-based console that they use to manage their network performance and availability. All of the SevOne capabilities for polling, monitoring, alerting and reporting are available for VoIP call quality metrics.
  • Telchemy provides Voice over IP (VoIP) passive call quality monitoring and active Quality of Service (QoS) management. Designed specifically to be embedded into VoIP end-systems, management devices and DSPs, Telchemy's non-intrusive monitoring technology, VQmonTM, is the only technology to model time-varying impairments and their effects on end-user-perceived quality in real-time.
  • ZTI provide LANTraffic V2 and IP Traffic Test & Measure software testing tools for automatic generation of TCP and UDP traffic.
• Video over IP
  • CertUs Digital FaultLine (windows software) monitors, in real-time, ethernet MPEG-2 Transport Streams and provides QoE/QoS (ETSI TR 101 290) statistics for Video-over-IP, IPTV and VOD. A free unlimited use run-from-pcap version is also available.