Network Monitoring and Logging
There are a lot of ways to find out what’s really going on within your network. Most administrators opt to directly keep tabs on network performance by looking at important factors like data rates and available bandwidth, using the many tools on the market designed to help with that. Another good strategy for assessing a network’s health and well-being is via the more indirect route of monitoring the logs that your server operating systems keep. These can help you spot problems on your physical network as well as services or applications that aren’t running properly and could eventually bring the network or its resources down and make your users really unhappy.
Network Monitoring
Some key network-monitoring tools and diagnostic utilities around today are software additions that run on an existing server operating system like Windows Server or Unix. Others are stand-alone hardware devices that you plug into your network, but both are...