PRTG Network Monitor Free

PRTG Network Monitor Free is an advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, fail over clustering, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for acquiring network usage data are supported: SNMP and WMI, Packet Sniffing and NetFlow. It as well offers SMTP/IMAP Roundtrip-Email Monitoring and VMware Monitoring, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Monitoring, Toplists for Packet Sniffing and Netflow Sensors, as so then as sensor aggregation using its built-in Sensor Factory. PRTG Network Monitor includes more than 80 sensor types for all common network services, allowing users to monitor networks for availability, speed and failures. As in the near future as an outage occurs, alerts are sent via email, SMS, pager messages and other means. Request times and downtime are recorded in an internal database, making it easy to compile performance, downtime and SLA reports.

Overall I was dissapointed with the latest version of Network Grapher and though there appears to be increased functionality, it was difficult, otherwise impossible to effectively utilize this package. For the short term I will hold onto the 'Traffic Grapher' application and hope that it will continue to suit our needs.

I installed it and setup a user ID and password. Nevertheless, the windows interface wold not work. Only the browser interface would work so I had to unsintall and reboot. Wonder why they don't have a login in option on the system tray icon. Oh then!