Network monitoring software

A healthy network is a productive network–and, therefore, a profitable one. Dave Mitchell explains what to look for in a network monitoring system

Downtime isn’t just a pain – it can be a catastrophe for a small business. Aside from the direct loss of productivity, going offline can harm your reputation and frustrate your customers, prompting them to take their business elsewhere. It’s essential, therefore, to keep your network healthy, and not just through reactive firefighting. Network monitoring software can help by quickly alerting you to problems, and even flagging up potential failures before they happen, by spotting issues such as sluggish response times, overloaded application servers or low storage capacity. This month, we look at four of the top monitoring solutions on the market from ManageEngine, Paessler, Progress Software and SolarWinds. All of them offer a wealth of features to help keep your network ticking along smoothly, and we put each of them through…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2021

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