In a follow-up article, I will describe how I installed Zabbix and monitored Windows and Linux systems. What Is Zabbix Zabbix is a powerful and flexible open-source monitoring software solution ...

How-To Setting Up Open-Source ntopng for Network Visualization and Monitoring By Tom Fenton 03/06/2025 In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first ...

Network performance monitoring tools must adapt to handle virtual infrastructure, new applications and hybrid cloud environments. Learn whether the network monitoring market is ready in this Q&A.

In summary, Cacti is a free open source network performance monitoring graphing application. I recommend it to just about every network admin I meet because it does what it claims to do very well.

In network monitoring, the whole goal is to be able to monitor the right things. You don’t want too much data, or you’ll be flooded. Too little, and you miss important info.

GroundWork Open Source’s free-for-the-download open source network monitoring and management product, called GroundWork Monitor, is quite basic and lacking in features.

Try Nagios (www.nagios.org), an open source network-monitoring application that runs on Linux and other Unix-based systems, and which has a large user base and active online community.

But there were some other really interesting technology trends that these open source network monitoring luminaries were highlighting that are a lot different than the typical “Big 4” (Tivoli ...

We reviewed four popular open source products – Nagios Core 3.5, NetXMS 1.2.7, OpenNMS 1.10.9 and Zenoss Core 4.2. All four products are mature, have extensive monitoring capabilities similar to ...

Network and server monitoring is obviously incomplete without notifications. Nagios has a full e-mail/SMS notification engine, and an escalation layout that can be used to make intelligent ...