Protocol and Traffic Monitoring Software

It also supports sFlow, IPFIX, NetStream and J-Flow. It helps you view in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer uses Cisco's NBAR technology and can analyze and identify application traffic in real time. NetFlow Analyzer supports Cisco CBQoS, which helps in monitoring class based pre policy, post policy usage, drops and queuing. It also generates usage based billing, which helps you keep a tab on the bandwidth usage and thus adding tremendous value to your business.

Salient Features:

• Troubleshoot network incidents faster
• Ensure application performance
• Take informed capacity planning decisions
• Secure your network against threats
• Create your own IP departments and divisions
• Automatic alerting when usage thresholds are violated
• Add custom applications based on ports/hosts
• Validate the QoS policies
• Support for usage based billing and charge-back
• Reporting on Cisco CBQoS

When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by network message, e-mail, pager, or SMS message. When a failure is detected, the network monitor tool will try to recover the problem by running a system administrator defined program or by restarting a process.

ActiveXperts Network Monitor features the following:

• Checks (IP-based): ICMP, DNS, HTTP(s), FTP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, SNMP Traps, LDAP, NTP, NNTP and more
• Checks (Windows OS): CPU, File/Directory, Disks, Event Log, Memory, Process, Service, Terminal Server and more
• Checks (Windows BackOffice): MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, MS ISA, MS Message Queue and more
• Checks (Windows Anti-Virus): McAfee, Norton, NOD32, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, Sophos, Avast, AVG, Norman, Panda and more
• Checks (Linux/Unix OS): CPU, File/Directory, Disks, Memory, Daemon and more
• Checks (Environmental): Temperature, Humidity, Wetness, Smoke, Motion, Resistance, Light, Door, Power and more
• Checks (Database): MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, ODBC, OLE/DB (Progress, SyBase, Informix, Paradox, IBM DB2, …)
• Custom Checks (Windows): PowerShell, VBScript
• Custom Checks (Linux/Unix): SSH, RSH
• Notifications: E-mail, SMS (GSM, SMPP, HTTP), Pager, SNMP Trap, Network Popup

ActiveXperts Network Monitor costs EURO 690.00 for a perpetual Enterprise License (one time fee!). This includes one year maintenace (support and upgrades).

NetFlow technology efficiently provides the metering base for a key set of applications including network traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, as well as Denial Services monitoring capabilities, network monitoring, outbound marketing, and data mining capabilities for both service provider and enterprise customers. Cisco provides a set of NetFlow applications to collect NetFlow export data, perform data volume reduction, post-processing, and provide to end-user applications easy access to NetFlow data.

Designed for packet decoding and network diagnosis, Colasoft Capsa monitors the network traffic transmitted over a local host and a local network, helping network administrators maintain and troubleshoot network problems. With the ability of real time packet capture and accurate data analysis, Colasoft Capsa makes your network transparent before you, letting you quickly and efficiently fix the network troubles.

What can you do with Colasoft Capsa?

• Diagnose your network events
• View detailed statistics for IP connections: IP addresses, ports, sessions, etc.
• Reconstruct TCP Streams.
• Monitor application packets.
• Monitor network error packets in real time.
• Monitor network traffic in real time and find out high network occupation.
• View protocols distribution, bandwidth utilization, and packet size distribution both in charts and tables.
• Generate comprehensive statistic reports.
• Monitor and logs HTTP requests, email messages and FTP transfers.
• Browse decoded packet information of network nodes.
• View TCP connection status.
• Define advanced filters with logical rules and multiple parameters.
• Import and export packets to the files in multiple formats.
• Capture traffic form multiple adapters simultaneously.
• Capture loopback traffic.

Distinct Network Monitor translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred. Not only is it easier to use than any other competing products, but it also translates the packet negotiation into natural language, something no other network protocol analyzer does.

Distinct Network Monitor also captures several network traffic statistics for the network segment being monitored and provides a graphical representation of the statistics gathered. This feature may be used together with packet sniffing or on its own. When used on its own, the statistics can potentially span most of the network if Distinct Agents are installed on one system per subnet or switch.

Feature Summary: Captures network traffic and interprets it in plain English. Gives an intelligent interpretation of what actually happened on the network. Imports packet trace files taken with other networks analyzers and views them in Distinct’s plain English format. Supports high speed and wireless networks. Supports 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and wireless TCP/IP adapters and 4/16 Token Ring cards. Works over serial line with a PPP connection. It allows you to filter at any level. You may filter the capture itself to avoid the collection of unnecessary packets and reduce the size of your capture. You may also filter a captured file and save the packets filtered to a new, smaller, more manageable file. Has a Remote IP Sniffing capability through its Agents. Gathers statistics related to the traffic seen by the system it is running on. It includes the ability to produce statistical reports in HTML format. Exports the network packet trace. This allows you to make use of the data gathered right in your application. Packet header information may be exported in a comma separated format (CSV) for use with Excel or imported into a database. Supports a wide range of protocols. It includes parsers for the most important protocols of the Internet including IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, H323, SIP, etc.

Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.

Intellipool Network Monitor is an easy to use, browser based network monitor that can help you to monitor a variety of different protocols and services on LAN or internet machines. It runs under Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a service and consumes minimal system resources. The interface is web based and all you need is a device with a web browser to control Intellipool. Intellipool is structured into actions, objects and agents as well as configurable operators and groups.

Monitoring agents include RDP 5.0(Windows Terminal Server), ICA (Citrix Metaframe 1.7-1.8), ODBC, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, TFTP, IMAP4 TCP Port scan (Firewall test), SSH2, Ping, syslog, eventlog, cpu load, swap file usage, disk space and many others. The program is able to log errors and informational messages to XML file, Syslog, Windows Eventlog or an ODBC database. Notification options include SMS, NotePage, PageGate and of course Email.

VQManager aids troubleshooting VoIP calls for failures and quality deterioration through instantaneous reports, self-configurable alerts & in-depth fault probing -- all from a single web interface. With over 25 built-in reports, VQManager also gives network administrators comprehensive insight about bandwidth usage and traffic patterns over time.

VQManager monitors over 200,000 VoIP devices globally and is helping Network Administrators manage optimal VoIP service levels in their networks. It requires no other special hardware/software for support and it's remotely accessible, user-friendly interface saves precious time & greatly improves administrator productivity. With minimal to zero deployment, VQManager is your fastest and most cost-effective way of ensuring an optimized VoIP communication infrastructure. All features come in-built in a single download file of 33MB.

VQManager provides:

• Real-time monitoring of VoIP QoS metrics & MOS scores
• Proactive operator alerts, Email notifications, SNMP traps
• Call flow ladders, raw packet views for troubleshooting
• User-configured call history reports for capacity planning

Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools in One Customizable Dashboard:

• Edit, upload, download IOS configuration files
• Router configuration editor
• Server and application monitoring
• Netflow analyzer
• Decrypt Passwords
• TFTP server monitoring
• GUI developed by gamers

Voice communication is the lifeblood of any business environment. Today, organizations increasingly rely on the network infrastructure and complex VoIP equipment to power this critical form of communication. When VoIP quality degrades, business stops – along with the heart of every network engineer on staff. Don't worry -- VoIP Monitor can help, arming you with the necessary tools to troubleshoot voice QoS issues.

VoIP Monitor allows you to proactively analyze VoIP quality across WAN links, as well as monitor the underlying systems and protocols that the VoIP environment relies upon, providing complete integration with Orion. VoIP Monitor's simulation-based approach with IP SLA alerts you to problems and enables you to fix them with its robust capabilities, including:

• Collecting and analyzing VoIP performance statistics, including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important QoS metrics
• Facilitating capacity planning for existing multi-vendor VoIP deployments and measuring voice quality in advance of new VoIP deployments
• Automatically configuring IP SLA on Cisco routers without you having to lift a finger