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AdventNet
SNMP API, Alchemy
Eye, Argent,
Autobuf,
Bing,
Clink,
Cycletraders,
DSLReports,
Firehose,
GeoBoy, PacketBoy,
Internet Control Portal,
Internet Periscope,
ISDNwatch, Metrica/NPR,
Mon,
NetCalibrate,
NetSaint,
Nettimer,
Pathrate,
RouteView, sFlow,
Shunra,
Third Watch,
Traceping, Trellian,
TowerView,
WCAT,
What's Up Gold, WS_FTP,
Zinger,
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Analyzer,
bbftp,
Big Brother,
Bronc, Cricket,
EdgeScape, Ethereal,
gen_send/gen_recv,
GSIFTP,
Gtrace,
Holistix,
InMon,
NcFTP,
Natas, Network
Simulator, Ntop,
Omegon,
PingGraph,
PingPlotter,
Pipechar,
RRD,
Sniffer,
Snoop, StatScope,
Synack,
View2000,
VisualPulse,
WinPcap,
WU-FTPD,
WWW performance monitoring,
Xplot |
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Cheops,
Ganymede,
hping2,
Iperf,
JetMon,
MeasureNet,
MatLab,
MTR,
NeoTrace,
Netflow,
NetLogger,
Network health,
NextPoint,
Nmap,
Pchar,
Qcheck,
Quallaby,
SAA, SafeTP,
Sniffit,
SNMP from UCSD,
Sting,
ResponseNetworks,
Tcpshow,
Tcptrace WinTDS,
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NetOps,
Triticom,
Maple,
PV-Wave,
S-Plus,
VisualRoute |
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INS Net Perf
Mgmt survey,
tcpspray,
Mapnet, Keynote,
prtraceroute
clflowd
flstats,
fping,
tcpdpriv,
NetMedic Pathchar,
CAIDA Measurement
Tool Taxonomy,
bprobe &
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mrtg,
NetNow,
NetraMet,
Network Probe
Daemon, SNIF,
InterMapper,
Lachesis,
Optimal Networks,
Digex |
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The following Network Monitoring Tools grew out of a list that were reported
to be in use at 11 ESnet sites in a
survey made by the
ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force
(NMTF) and
completed in October 1995. Where possible I have provided hypertext links to
further sources of information on the tool. These links vary in quality ranging
from a pointer to the vendors home page, to the man pages entry, and to how to
download the code.
Network Monitoring Platforms (NMPs)
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Commercial Monitoring Tools, not integrated with an NMP
- 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.
- Alchemy Eye
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.
- 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.
- CycleTraders, is a cooperative
network of users that gather critical information about the status of each
other's website.
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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.
- Ganymede provides
performance management for clients,servers, applications, and the network as
an integrated system.
- DSLReports provide
measurement reports (e.g. speed tests, security scans, loss).
- 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.
- FTP
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Internet
Periscope includes a wide array of tools including security, that allow
System Administrators to "see" how well their hosts are functioning on the
Internet.
- ISDNwatch is an ISDN
network management suite for your ISDN routers.
- Keynote Systems is a supplier of
software and services for measuring and managing the responsiveness of
web-based applications.
- 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.
- NeoTrace provides graphical
traceroute information.
- Netflow from Cisco.
- NetMedic.
- Network Health
family from Concord.
- NetOps provides a set of tools for
monitoring, logging and reporting network status, focussing on preventive
maintenance.
- NetScout
- NextPointS3 provides the ability t
define, measure, baseline and report on service levels at many levels from the
core network to end user applications.
- Omegon 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.
- NetCalibrate
iVision software
package that runs on any standard Windows platform. It provides passive
monitoring passing through an edge device. It offers a middle way between
network protocol analyzers and trending/reporting packages.
- PacketBoy
is a Win9x/NT & Unix packet sniffer analyzer decoder package capable of
decoding many of the commonly used LAN protocols.
- PingGraph is a
multi-threaded graphical TCP/IP network monitoring and diagnostic tool for
Windows 95 and NT.
- PingPlotter is an
enhanced trace route program for Windows 95/98/NT.
- Procom+
ISDN/Modem monitoring
- ResponseNetworks provides
tools for network service level monitoring and measurements.
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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.
- Shunra develops testing and
evaluation tools for internet and intranet based network technologies and
products.
- SNMP Tools:
- InterMapper An Intranet
Mapping and SNMP Monitoring Program for the Macintosh.
- Quallaby provides PROVISO 2.0,
network monitoring and service assurance solution for network service
providers.
- SNMP
Research
- WinTDS monitors
IP-SNMP devices and gives a variety of real-time views of the network
status.
- Shiva Network Manager
- Shiva InterNet Manager
- 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).
- 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.
- StatScope from IP Sciences is an
outsourced service providing a customized IP network monitoring and reporting
capability.
- TelAlert from TeleMon 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.
- Trellian Trellian FTP
is a file transfer client that allows you to transfer files between your PC
and any FTP server on the Internet.
- 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.
- VisualPulse from
DataMetrics provide realtime and historical reports on RTT & loss.
- VisualRoute a GUI based
traceroute for Windows.
Public Domain or Free Network Monitoring Tools
- arpwatch,
if this link fails then try
http://www/ticl.co.uk/security/CD/tools/intruder/arpwatch.txt, or you can
FTP it from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.Z
- Big Brother 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.
- Bronc is a package of utilities
that allow you to gather and visualize data in the form of graphs. It uses
RRD and is
similar in function to Cricket and MRTG, though it is claimed to be faster.
- Cflowd is an
experimental tool to collect data from Cisco's
netflow
export feature.
- Cheops is an
Open Source Network User Interface
designed to unify your network utilities.
- Cricket is a high
performance, flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data. The
collector runs from cron every 5 minutes (by default), and stores data into a
file-based database managed by the
RRD Tool.
Later, when you want to check on the data you have collected, you can use a
web-based interface to view graphs of the data.
- Dig
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FTP is the standard File Transfer Protocol. See also
Commercial FTP tools.
- Autobuf is an
auto tuning-enabled FTP client and server. The client, a modification of the
NcFTP Client, enables Auto Tuning to calculate optimal window sizes before
files are transferred. The client is compatible with most other FTP servers.
The server, a modification of the WuFtp FTP server, allows connecting
clients to reset its buffer size dynamically by using a SITE option.
- bbftp is designed to quickly
transfer files across a wide area network. The package comprises of a server
and clients. It also provides compression and secures the transmission of
the username and password by using the cryptolib of the OpenSSL project.
- Firehose firehose
uses multiple interfaces to stripe a bulk data transfer (it's geared towards
files, the home-grown protocol includes sending a filename and the client
requires a file) over multiple network interfaces.
- GSIFTP
is an ftp client and server with built in kerberos and GSI (globus)
security, and also allows you to set the TCP buffers on both the client and
server.
- SafeTP
operates by installing a transparent proxy in the Windows networking stack
which detects outgoing FTP connections from any Windows FTP client, and
silently secures them using modern cryptographic techniques.
- NcFTP has a popular free FTP client
that adds support for firewalls, intelligent ls caching, background and
scheduled processing, and Microsoft Windows.
- WU-FTPD is a popular FTP server
from Washington University.
- JetMon is a client-server link
monitoring tool for NOC operations, written in Java. The server pings a list
of network devices, reporting the state to the clients.
- Lachesis a tool
from Intel to monitor and report on response time and packet loss to
"landmark" Internet sites. It is based on the publically available tool
Imeter.
- Mapnet from
NLANR/CAIDA is a tool for visualizing the infrastructure of multiple backbone
providers simultaneously (Mapnet), and for updating and correcting information
that may be invalid or out of date (Mapnet Update)
- Mon is a general-purpose
resource monitoring system, which can be used to monitor network service
availability, server problems, environmental conditions such as the
temperature in a room, or any number of things.
- mrtg
Multi Router Traffic Grapher.
- MTR combines the functionality
of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
- NetLogger.
- NetNow a prototype tool
providing realtime NAP & ISP backbone delay & packet loss performance
statistics.
- NetraMet
and other realtime flow meters designed for Internet accounting including
NetraMet (a traffic meter), NeMac (a combined manager & meter_reader) and
NIFTY (a traffic flow analyzer).
- NetSaint is a program that
will monitor hosts and services on your network. It is written in C and is
designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other *NIX
variants. It can run either as a normal process or as a daemon, intermittently
running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service checks
are performed by external "plugins" which return service information to
NetSaint. Several CGI programs are included with NetSaint in order to allow
you to view the current service status, history, etc. via a web browser.
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netstat
- NIMI
- Nmap is a utility for port
scanning of large networks, although it works fine for single hosts.
- ns network simulator
is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research.
- Ntop is a Unix tool that shows
the network usage, similar to the popular top Unix command.
- NOCOL
- nslookup
- Path Characterization
- Bing is a
point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping.
You can download it from
here
- Bprobe &
cprobe provide measurement of bottleneck and congestion bandwidth using
ping.
- Clink is a tool
for estimating Internet link characteristics.
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Nettimer is a project to do end-to-end network performance measurement.
It can listen passively to existing network traffic or actively probe the
network
- Pathchar is a tool to infer
the characteristics of Internet paths. There are some
man pagessome
usage notes from CAIDA. There is also a SIGCOMM '99 paper on
Using pathchar to estimate Inernet link characteristics by Allen
Downey.
- Pathrate
- Pchar an
independent implementation of Van Jacobsens pathchar with more intelligible
output. Available for FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, IRIX
- Pipechar a tool for
reporting dynamic network characteristics in particular the bottleneck
bandwidth.
- Ping
- fping
is similar to ping but is optimized to ping a large number of hosts in
parallel. You may be able to download from
here.
- pathping is built into Windows 2000, it pings all nodes along a
route.
- Ping 'Classic' and the
Nikhef Ping variant
and its
man page.
- The SLAC/HEPNRC PingER suite of ping tools for monitoring response time,
packet loss etc. are available via the
PingER Tools
from the ICFA-NTF WG on Monitoring page.
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Pingroute.pl is a simple Perl script to ping all nodes along a
traceroute and provide min, max, avg response time, plus packet loss
analysis for 100 and 1400 byte packets. The
source is
freely available for SunOS, Solaris, Linux, AIX and Digital OSF1.
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Traceping measures the packet loss to nodes along a route.
- TRIUMF's
Visual
Ping provides a Web page that the user can make ping transfer rate
measurements between the Web server and the browser.
- hping2 is a
network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and to display target
replies like ping do with ICMP replies.
- Zinger a
small Perl program that pings the closest router on network and reports any
loss of connection. When it detects a problem, it does two things. First, it
announces the problem over the PC speakers. Then, it writes the time and
date to a log file. When the connection comes back up, the program writes
another entry in the log and announces the happy event over the speakers
again.
- Qcheck checks network response time,
throughput, and streaming performance, by means of thin agents installed on
hosts that are to be checked.
- RouteViews is a
tool for Internet operators to obtain real-time information about the global
routing system from the perspectives of several different backbones and
locations around the Internet.
- RRDtool
(Round Robin Database tool) is a system to store and display time-series data.
- SNIF a tools
for surveying Network Information flow.
- Packet capture tools. Before using these tools on
your site you should check with your network security people.
- Analyzer is a
fully configurable analyzer program. It was developed in Win32 environment.
It can be used with both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000 platforms. It is
composed by three parts: a graphical interface, an analysis engine and a
capture program.
- Ethereal is a free network
protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows (including Win2K). It allows you to
examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk.
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flstats is program for extracting flow statistics from trace files
created using the -w argument to tcpdump.
- Natas is an opensource windows 2000
network sniffer.
- sniffit,
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Snoop is similar to tcpdump and is bundled with the Sun/Solaris Unix
operating system.
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Tcpdpriv is a program for eliminating confidential information from
packets collected on a network interface (or, from trace files created using
the -w argument to tcpdump).
- tcpdump. There is also a
version for Windows 9x, NT
& 2000.
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Tcptrace is a TCP dump file analysis tool written by Shawn Ostermann at
Ohio University.
- WinPcap is an
architecture for packet capture and network analysis for the Win32
platforms, based on the model of BPF and
libpcap for UNIX. See also
libcap for windows
and libpcap for Unix.
- SNMP:
- Sting
end-to-end active monitoring tool that estimates one way loss through careful
manipulation and observation of TCP behavior.
- Synack
measures the Round Trip Time to establish a TCP session using the SYN request
and SYN/ACK response.
- telnet
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tcpshow
- Thruput tools (also see the FTP tools):
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gen_send/gen_recv a simple UDP trafic generator.
- IPerf is a tool for
measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth, reminiscent of ttcp and nettest. It
has been written to overcome the shortcomings of those aging tools.
- netperf
maintained by HP, is a general measure of performance of a network. Provides
a measure of latency between request and response of generic transactions
across a TCP/IP network.
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Tcpspray sends data to either the discard or echo TCP service on the
specified host and prints the average throughput.
- ttcp
- Traceroute:
- man pages,
where to get it, the
traceroute NIKHEF
variant and
traceroute servers.
- Gtrace is
a traceroute visualization tool that uses a combination of methods to either
determine or guess at the physical location of a node in the traceroute
path. It is flexible enough to support addition of new databases, heuristics
to map IP addresses to physical location and maps.
- NeoTrace provides graphical
traceroute information.
- Prtraceroute is a
version of traceroute, from the RIPE Pride tools, that presents routing
policy information together with the real time packet trace obtained from
traceroute. It adds AS information to the normal traceroute output, making
use of Routing Registry (RR) database information.
- VisualRoute a GUI based
traceroute for Windows.
- TReno a tool to function as
a basis for a formal bulk transfer metric for the Internet.
- WWW performance monitoring
Web Benchmarking Tools
- TowerView
from HighTower
provides a 3D graphical tool to assist in providing visualization of data.
- ghostscript
- Gnuplot a
command-line driven interface function plotting utility. Also see the
demos.
- GIF Manipulation and Animation
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GIFBuilder is freeware for the Mac.
- WhirlGIF is a
UNIX command-line utility to take a series of GIF files and output an
animated GIF.
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