Alphabetical list of companies/open-source projects of computer network software

Company or Open Source Project
 Description
10 Strike 10 Strike creates and maintains the inventory database of network computers. User can view hardware and software on network computers remotely, track hardware and software changes. The application allows monitoring computers, servers, printers and other devices (hosts) connected to your local area network or the Internet. 10-Strike Network Diagram scans your network and searches it for network devices.
A1 Tech A1 Tech monitors uptime and loading on websites and servers, and allows sending alerting upon problem conditions.
Absolute Performance StressWalk Absolute-Performance StressWalk is a service for automated load simulations of website and webservice behavior. Statisics are collected and presented to help determine current performance issues and project potential future issues.
AccelOps AccelOps maps IT services down to the network level, performs root-cause analysis and manages application service performance, tracks network changes, as well as guarantees availability and regulatory compliance. The software is offered either as a "virtual appliance" or as a vendor hosted service.
Active Experts ActiveXperts Network Monitor is a network and server monitoring tool that enables administrators to monitor the network for failures and irregularities automatically. It can monitor all aspects of your LAN and WAN servers, workstations and IP devices.
Adrem Software Adrem Sofware allows agentless monitoring of network devices. The software collects and alerts on events from SNMP source and logs. In addition, it takes asset, hardware and software inventory of Windows networks.
Alchemy Lab Alchemy Eye/Asset Tracker for Networks Alchemy Eye continuously monitors network servers availability and performance. When network errors occur, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator. The software also collects information about network PC hardware and software
Aldebaran Systems ServerAssist Server Assist monitors and provides alerts for servers. Suitable for small and large networks, Server Assist provides agent-based and agent-less monitoring, which can be deployed from a single workstation. Automatic network discovery finds servers for monitoring of metrics such as disk, memory and CPU usage, monitors event log entries, keeps critical services running.
Alert Bot AlertBot monitors websites & servers. For your website, AlertBot will chart the performance and alert you of failures.
Alertra Alertra service goes beyond simple web monitoring and server pings by checking shared and dedicated server availability, performance and security externally from our worldwide network of monitoring stations located in carrier-class data centers.
Alhem Alhem provides a GPL licensed C++ class library wrapping the berkeley sockets C API, and therefore works on most unixes and also win32. The library is in use in a number of real world applications, both commercial and open source. Features include, but are not limited to, SSL support, IPv6 support, tcp and udp sockets, sctp sockets, http protocol, highly customizable error handling. Testing has been done on Linux and Windows 2000, and to some part on Solaris and Mac OS X.
Alloy Software Alloy Discovery provides network discovery of hardware and software using agentless collecting. You can also deploy the new agents for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS to automatically audit your computers on ongoing basis. Alloy Navigator provides for hardware and software asset management, help-desk ticketing, and change management.
Alterpoint Alterpoint provides enterprise-level discovery, inventory, and configuration management software.
AlertSite AlertSite provides a hosted web-site monitoring service.
Andrisoft Andrisoft provides premium network traffic monitoring and accounting software for high-speed switched networks monitored through NetFlow or Port Mirroring.
AngryIP Angry IP can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports. It is cross-platform and lightweight. Not requiring any installations, it can be freely copied and used anywhere. Angry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it is alive, then optionally it is resolving its hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports, etc. The amount of gathered data about each host can be extended with plugins. It also has additional features, like NetBIOS information (computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user), favorite IP address ranges, web server detection, customizable openers, etc.
Apparent Networks Apparent Networks software provides a microappliance for monitoring performance from source-to-destination, including the carrier and service provider WANs between you and your remote users. This allows management of the status and service levels in your own and carrier networks.
Argent Argent provides network, application, and website monitoring along with configuration and change management.
Aruba AirWave Aruba AirWave is a wireless network management system that supports multiple brands of wireless access points. Airwave is a user-focused management system that allows managing of service quality and device configurations, provides network visualization, and monitors rogue device and intrusion detection.
AssetGen AssetGen provides asset, configuration, service and change management.
Attachmate NetIQ Attachmate NetIQ provides a family of network and application monitoring, management, and analysis software.
Avocent LANDesk Avocent LANDesk contains tools to help manage Windows, Apple, Linux, and UNIX devices: This management includes distribution of software packages, monitoring software usage, deploying OS images.
Axence Software nVision/NetTools Axence Software nVision monitors TCP/IP services, applications, Windows computers, switches and routers and notifies you of any problems. NetTools is a free and comprehensive set of host monitoring, network scanning, security and administration tools.
Ayarovy sMonitor is a network monitoring software that allows you to verify the network connectivity of TCP/IP hosts on the Internet and LAN. The program periodically pings, or checks TCP and UDP ports on user specified computers or other network devices. If the destination host fails to reply to a ping, connection request, or user datagram, sMonitor alerts you using audible alarms, visible notifications, e-mail messages, third-party software, modem and telnet connections.
beeSync FramePad beeSync Framepad Network protocol analyzer that 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.
BandwidthD BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization.
Big Brother Big Brother gets real-time monitoring for any server (Windows, UNIX, Linux) or device, on any network, from any web browser.
BMC Patrol BMC Patrol provides a full set of network management and monitoring functions. These include monitoring of applications, assets, capacity, configuration, discover and performance. BMC is considered one of the "big four" enterprise network management systems.
BreakingPoint BreakingPoint testing tools provide resiliency testing capabilities by simulating realistic blended application traffic mixed with live security strikes at line-rate throughput and maximum load conditions.
CA CA monitoring applications provide a full set of network management and monitoring tools. CA is considered one of the "big four" enterprise network management systems.
CA. netQos CA NetQoS provides performance metrics and analytics for delivery—end-to-end application response time, long-term packet capture, network traffic flow, device performance, and voice and video quality.
CA - Nimsoft Nimsoft provides network monitoring including covering service level agreements. Monitors and analytics include: VoIP, Network, Server, DB, EndToEndResponseTime.
Cace Technologies Case Pilot provides an add on software to the popular open-source WireShark for capabilities not found in WireShark.
Cacti Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of the RRDTool data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.
Castle Rock Computing SNMPc Network Manager Castle Rock Computing software monitors SNTP devices with network maps and monitoring.
Centennial Discovery Centennial Discovery discovers and stores hardware and software inventory details in an asset data repository.
Cisco Pure Networks Cisco Network Magic Pro is software for a non-IT person to manage and secure small network. The software allows to: * Connect your devices together in minutes * Share Internet connections, printers and files * Protect your network with enhanced WPA security capabilities and status alerts * Repair your network and Internet connections to stay online and productive * Control access to the Internet and track online activity with remote desktop screenshots
Cisco CiscoWorks CiscoWorks is a web-based suite of tools provided by Cisco Systems for helping manage a Cisco-based computer network.
Clear Apps Network Inventory Advisor Clear Apps audits network software and hardware and discovers your network assets, scans them, and builds ready-to-use network inventory reports.
ClearSight Networks/Fluke The ClearSight Analyzer product line provides IT administrators with a direct view of application flows, rebuilding them in the same interface experienced by end users, for quick analysis and effective troubleshooting. ClearSight Analyzers eliminate the need for complicated packet decodes and extend the use of network analysis tools across the IT department, by enabling IT administrators to visualize the problem.
Colasoft Colasoft software is a network analyzer, MAC scanner, Packet builder/player, and Ping tool.
Codima Technologies Codima provides software for VoIP Management and Network Inventory, Mapping and Monitoring.
Comroe Studios SNMP Html Explorer Comroe Studios software allows configurable communication with SNMP devices via browser.
Concept Draw ConceptDraw PRO is a well-known and popular business graphics and diagramming application for Windows and Macintosh. It contains powerful vector drawing tools, graphics libraries with hundreds of pre-drawn shapes, built-in scripting language, support for importing and exporting many popular file formats and countless other professional features.
Cymphonix Network Revealer Cymphonix Network Revealer provides traffic monitoring and analysis.
Distinct The Distinct Network Monitor is a packet capture and network protocol analyzer software that translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred. The Distinct Network Monitor Statistics gathering and analysis module allows you to get a very good picture of the activity that is going on for any given network segment monitored.
DopplerVue DopplerVue monitors servers and applications including discovery, mapping, fault analysis, and performance.
Dorado Software OpCenter Dorado Software provides configuration management, change management, inventory and asset control, and provisioning.
DotComMonitor DotComMonitor provides a service for monitoring, reporting, notification, escalation and analysis of websites, web services, email, voip, and web applications. Another provided service also allows for macro recording and playback of browser sessions, and for the generating and playing back site load simulation.
Dstat Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval).
EDrawSoft EDrawSoft provides a drawing tool for creating network diagrams.
Effettech Sniffer Efettech Sniffer is a network diagnosis and internet administration software for parents, network administrators, and network protocol developers.
Ekahau HeatMapper Ekahau HeatMapper is a tool for mapping small wireless LANs.
eiQ Networks eIQnetworks provides integrated security (SIEM), log, risk and audit management software.
elkMonitor elkMonitor helps you ensure your website and other internet servers are working properly. By remotely monitoring your web site around the clock from servers across the globe, elkMonitor will alert you to the first sign of trouble.
Emco Emco provides software for managing network inventory: agentless remote audit of pc hardware, software, and licensing; remote pc administration and software deployment; and event log monitoring.
Embotics Embotics provides software for automation and control of the virtual datacenter.
EMC EMC provides business service monitoring, application nonitoring, network discovery, and performance management.
Entuity Entuity provides software that provides discovery, monitoring network utilization, tools for capacity planning based on utilization and availablity, asset control and auditing, Service Level Agreement management.
Etherape EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman. Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display. It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices. It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as well as live from the network.
EtherDetect EtherDetect is a packet monitor to track network traffic.
EtherScan Etherscan Analyzer is an advanced network sniffer and protocol analyzer for Microsoft Windows.
Ettercap Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.
Express Metrix Express Metrix Express Software Manager is software for PC inventory and software usage data.
E-Z Audit It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.
Fine Connection MonitorOne Fine Connection MonitorOne allows you to easily build and run a monitoring station for SNMP enabled networks that helps you manage and control every aspect of your network. You can monitor Uptime, bandwidth, performance, utilization and network traffic of leased lines, routers, firewalls, servers, managed switches, printers, and other network components.
Fing Fing is a command line tool for network and service discovery.
FireScope FireScope provides software for business service management and configuration management.
Fluke Fluke provides software and hardware for network monitoring instrumentation and network management.
Fortisphere Fortisphere software provides virtulization management. The software builds a map of the virtual servers, from high level to application level. VMs can be compared side by side for differences including configuration, software inventory, and application setup.
GFI GFI Network Server Monitor maximizes network availability by monitoring all aspects of your Windows and Linux servers, plus workstations and other devices such as routers and more. When a failure is detected, the GFI network monitor will alert you by email, pager or SMS, as well as automatically taking the preconfigured corrective action by, for example, rebooting the machine, restarting the service or running a script.
Gliffy Gliffy is a general purpose drawing tool that has icons for drawing basic network diagrams.
GNetWatch GNetWatch is a free open source Java application that offers real-time graphical monitoring and analysis of network performance through SNMP and ICMP.
Graphical Networks GraphicalNetworks netTerrain software allows discovering and inventory of devices and creating diagrams of the networks, including data centers containing cabinets, racks, and network devices. The software also provides for data, power, and port-to-port circuit tracing.
Groundwork GroundWork Monitor provides visibility into all aspects of the IT environment including networks, servers, operating systems, applications and databases. By utilizing the thousands of Nagios® plugins available online GroundWork can monitor virtually any device, system or software component. GroundWork also supports standardized monitoring techniques such as SNMP, syslog and WMI.
Hainsoft LANHelper LanHelper is software for Windows servers and workstations to integrates NT administration utilities and LAN monitoring. LanHelper allows network administrators to administer remote computers for user, service, shares mangement; commands and programs can be run on remote computers; and machine status can be remotely monitored.
Hammer MetaLAN Hammer MetaLAN is software that helps reduce the time required to support a Windows network by provding information about the network and tools to control it.
HealthMonitor HealthMonitor software provides application, server, website, and inventory management.
Heronix Heroix software provides application performance and network monitoring across multiple platforms. Monitors and alerts are on availability and performance of systems, applications, networks, and SLAs (Service Level Agreements). Monitored computers require no agents be installed. User can automatically receive alerts, generate SNMP traps, and execute corrective action based upon specified policies and correlated events.
Host Tracker Hosting Tracker has monitoring points all over the world to check the specified web-site periodically, and should an access error occur, the web-site will be checked by all other monitoring points. Failure is messaged by an e-mail or SMS message.
HP Software (formerly OpenView) HP provides a complete line of discovery, monitoring, traffic analysis, operations, fault detection and analysis software for monitoring networks and networked applications. HP software is aimed at larger enterprises who want a broad featured family of software for managing their networks business processes.
Hyperic Hyperic is a distributed J2EE application that runs on top of the open source JBoss Application Server. It is written in Java and portable C code and it runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, OSX, and HPUX. The software performs the following:
IBM Tivoli and Netcool IBM has a broad line of enterprise network management tools. IBM software is focused on larger enterprises.
Iinventory LANAuditor Inventory / Application Model & Grouping: Provides the functionality for storing and retrieving inventory data in the HQ database.
Infrascape Infrascape provides a network appliance that discovers, displays, and provides monitoring for devices on a network. The Dashboard and map views allow monitoring of status of devices, defined alarms, and system health and SLA status.
InMon InMon Traffic Sentinel software provides network-wide surveillance of complex multilayer switched and routed environments, ensuring the rapid identification and resolution of any threat to the network. Enforce security policies. Identify suspicious behavior. Quickly respond to security threats. Ensure quality of service. Account for network usage. Reduce network costs. Traffic Sentinel makes use of embedded instrumentation within switches and routers; supporting most standard (sFlow® and IPFIX) and proprietary (Cisco NetFlow, Juniper J-Flow, Riverstone LFAP, and Hewlett-Packard Extended RMON) traffic monitoring protocols, lowering the cost of network monitoring by eliminating the need for expensive probes.
Insecure.org Nmap Auto-Discover: Processes incoming auto-discovery reports from HQ Agents. Manages the approval process for merging auto-discovery data into HQ inventory. Maintains the auto-discovery scan schedule.
Insightix Insightix software detects, identifies, and audits all types of devices connected to a network.
Intellipool Monitoring: Handles incoming measurement data from HQ Agents. Provides routines to query collected data from the HQ database and correlate it among resources. Responsible for firing events for inbound measurement reports which are used by the HQ alerting engine to determine if alert criteria have been met.
Intermapper Intermapper provides network discovery and live geographic and hierarchical network views of traffic including NetFlow analysis (via probes). Alerting can be configured on network events.
Invea Tech Flowmon Invea Tech Flowmon provides for network security, network monitoring, traffic analysis and hardware-accelerated applications development.
iphostmonitor IPHost Network Monitor is a network and server monitoring software that allows availability and performance monitoring of web sites and applications, mail, db and other servers, various network resources and equipment using industry standard SNMP (on UNIX/Linux/Mac) and WMI (on Windows).
IPerf Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. Iperf is run as a command line utility on both ends of the communication to determine maximum bandwith.
IPSentry IPSentry monitors servers and websites and windows event logs to send alerts.
Ipswitch WhatsUpGold IPswitch Whats Up Gold provides an SNMP network management and WMI application monitoring solution for networks of all sizes. Whats Up Gold discovers and maps all your network devices and systems automatically and notifies you as problems occur on your network.
iReasoning SysUpTime network and server monitor is an agentless network management software product.
iTRACS iTRACS provides software to document IT assets and their connectivity in order to assess the impact of change to the physical infrastructure.
JFFNMS JFFNMS is a Network Management and Monitoring System designed to monitor a IP SNMP / Syslog / Tacacs+ Network. It can be used to monitor any standards compilant SNMP device, Server, Router, TCP port or anything you want, if you write a custom poller, we also provide some Cisco focused features.
Jawin Jawin Easy Network Service Monitor is a network management tool that continuously monitors network devices and services availability and performance locally or remotely. In the event of network or application errors, Easy Network Service Monitor can alert the network administrator by email, phone or pager before problems get seriously out of hand. Jawin Network Packet Analyzer CAPSA is an advanced network traffic monitoring, analysis and reporting tool, based on Windows operating systems. It captures and analyzes all traffic transport over both Ethernet and WLAN networks and decodes all major TCP/IP and application protocols. Its advanced application analysis modules allows you to view and log key communication applications such as emails, http traffic, instant messages and DNS querries.
JDS Unphase (JDSU) JDSU provides test and measurement equipment for a variety of applications. Collaborating with research labs, systems developers, network maintenance experts, and component manufacturers, JDSU meets the needs of a diverse customer base with equipment designed to test emerging performance metrics, at more wavelengths, with greater accuracy, and at reduced cost.
Jilroy Jilroy Genie Inventory platform is a generic inventory tool. It can be used to perform discovery operations for Network Discovery, Servers inventory, Business inventory, Compliance checks. Genie Monitoring Platform addresses the issue of on-line proactive management by enabling real time monitoring, of large number of parameters in large organizations using a single central collection station or a relatively small number of agents to collect data from a large number of components in the enterprise from remote.
Jnetstream jNetStream is a sniffer and a protocol analyzer. Includes applications and library. 100s of protocols are defined. Includes scripting. It is appropriate for custom protocol development, grad students, and network teachers/professors. Full SDK included.
Dell/Kace KBOX KACE appliances provide for device discovery and inventory, software distribution, asset management, patch management, and license management.
Kaseya Kaseya provides system inventory asset for hardware and software, and patch management for rolling out patches to machines across the network. Kaseya also provides for monitoring of system changes when new devices are taken on or off-line, hardware failures or capacity limits, along with tracking of network and application usage by location, user, or device.
Kismet Kismet is an 802.11 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic (devices and drivers permitting). Kismet also sports a plugin architecture allowing for additional non-802.11 protocols to be decoded. Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting networks, which allows it to detect (and given time, expose the names of) hidden networks and the presence of non-beaconing networks via data traffic.
Kratos DopplerVUE Kratos Networks software provides monitoring of applications (Microsoft Exchange, IIS, and SQL Server), bandwidth, network security, servers, Windows and Syslog event logs, along with real-time network maps and dashboards.
LanCtrl Active Wall Active Wall is a professional network monitoring and filtering software. It includes a port filter, http filter, smtp filter, pop3 filter, dns filter, ftp filter, https filter and more.
Lancope Lanscope uses NetFlow™, sFlow® and packet capture for flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring into a single, integrated enterprise platform for security and network operations. By delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs.
LAN Sweeper LanSweeper is a freeware network inventory software. Lansweeper provides agentless automatic computer inventory of all your Windows clients.
Lanecat Lanecat is software for real time network monitoring, content filtering and managing the employee working time. It allows you to monitor how they use Internet and log their activities in the server for you to review and analyze later.
Lastbit Trafmeter TrafMeter is a free tool for capturing and filtering traffic for tracking and reporting. Tracking includes traffic into hosts, databases, and Cisco NetFlow.
LoadImpact LoadImpact provides website load testing and reporting service which simulates multiple users.
LogicMonitor LogicMonitor is a hosted service for monitoring a data center's storage devices, load balancers, databases, virtualized server, applications, networking equipment, and power devices. The service can perform an network discovery to find new devices and device changes.
LogLogic databases, virtualized server, applications, networking equipment, and power devices. The service can perform an network discovery to find new devices and device changes.
Lyonware Lyonware ELM is designed to monitor Windows computers and to define conditions triggers for alerting.
Magnetosoft Magnetosoft Global Network Inventory is a software and hardware inventory system that can be used as an audit scanner in an agent-free and zero deployment environments. Magnetosoft MegaPing is a toolkit that provides utilities for Information System specialists, system administrators or individuals. It includes Comprehensive Security Scanner, Host and Port Monitor, and network utilities.
ManageEngine ManageEngine provides a broad family of networking software. Software includes networking monitoring, application monitoring, traffic analysis, configuration management, VoIP monitoring, and asset management.
ManageIQ ManageIQ provides virtual machine management from continuous discovery and real-time policy-based control to model-based automation.
McAfee FoundStone McAfee Foundstone offers a collection of free security scanners, forensic tools, stress test utilities, and intrusion detectors.
Metanav Network Administration Visualized Metanav Network Administration Visualized is a free and open-source software suite to monitor large computer networks. It automatically discovers network topology, monitors network load and outages, and can send alerts on network events.
Microsoft Visio is a popular tool for basic drawing and documenting of networks. Visio allow you to drag and drop Shapes representing network devices on the page and make Connectors between them. Microsoft Network Monitor is a free protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager allows you to assess, deploy, and update your servers, clients, and devices—across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments. MSCC is mostly for Windows networks.
Mikrotik The Dude The Dude network monitor is an application by MikroTik that will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.
M/Monit M/Monit is a Unix based system for automatic management and monitoring of computers on a network. M/Monit uses Monit as agents to monitor and manage the network. Hardware monitor points include: CPU, memory, disk usage, and file access. Conditional alerting can be setup with rules to alarm on change into an error condition. Information is collected from monitored systems and stored in a database. M/Monit is accessed from a Web interface. Status and events from each monitored system is updated in real-time and displayed in charts, graphs and tables.
MG-SOFT MG-SOFT provides network management applications as well as with toolkits implementing core network management technologies. MG-SOFT MIB Browser is used by those involved in SNMP, especially network operators. MG-SOFT Performance Manager is a web-based performance management software to monitor devices on the network (e.g., servers, routers, switches, hubs, workstations). The software includes a PHP-based Web application for setting up a polling configuration and monitoring results in a Web browser. The software also includes a polling engine which runs as a Windows Service and continuously polls devices on the network, detects and alarms you about network events and stores polling results in SQL database.
Monfox Monfox provides Java based network management protocol tools and toolkits which facilitate the development of Network Management System software.
Motorola AirDefense Motorola AirDefense is a vendor-agnostic appliance that provides wireless security monitoring, multi-vendor WLAN infrastructure management and remote troubleshooting.
NSoftware IP*Works NSoftware IP*Works is a comprehensive suite of components for Internet communications including more than 40 individual components covering every major Internet Protocol.
N-able N-able collects information from monitored networks and stored data in a database.
Nagios Nagios is an open source network monitoring software that monitors hosts and services and sends alerts.
Narus Insight Narus Insight captures, analyzes, and correlates IP traffic in real time. The real-time data can be used to alert users. Traffic is also collected and presented for statistical presentation.
Netcordia NetMRI Netcordia NetMRI is a network management product focused on Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM). It enables you to automate network change, see the impact of changes to your network health, manage network configurations and meet compliance.
Netdisco Netdisco is an Open Source web-based network management tool first released publically in 2003. The target users are large corporate and university networks administrators. Data is collected into a Postgres database using SNMP and presented with a clean web interface using Mason.
NeDi NeDi is a group of PERL scripts for crawling the MAC address table and ARP table on the network switches to discover and save a mapping of the network and network devices. NeDi provides a web GUI to run searches of switch and ports of devices by MAC address, IP address or DNS name. NeDi also discovers and retains information like serial number, firmware, module configurations, etc.
netikus EventSentry Netikus EventSentry is software for monitoring servers, workstations, and network devices using event log data. open-source monitoring plug-ins include environment monitoring (e.g., motion, water, smoke).
Netkeeper NetKeeper provides automatic LAN Inventory software and asset tracking software. NetKeeper Express Integrates with NetKeeper Help Desk Captain and NetKeeper CRM in “real time”.
NetMechanica NetDecision NetMechanica NetDecision Network Manager is a network monitoring software that provides automatic discovery of your IP network, groups your devices into a graphical topology and monitors devices in real-time. NetDecision Traffic Grapher provides out-of-the-box graphs and dashboards for CPU utilization, memory usage, disk space usage, interface utilization, service response times, interface errors etc. NetDecision TrapVision is capable of receiving the traps, interpreting them, and displaying notification messages in a graphical display. SNMP Trap Simulator is a simple, easy-to-use tool that allows users to configure and send SNMP v1/v2c/v3 traps and informs.
Netmon Netmon provides utilization and network protocol data in real time.
Netquation Netquation software gathers network device and topology data, then draws the network in diagrams.
NetReo NetReo OmniCenter is a monitoring, alerting, and reporting appliance which provides application, network, and systems management.
NetScout nGenius NetScout nGenius Performance Manager software monitors LANs and WANs in real-time. This is accomplished by continuous data capture and troubleshooting analysis with nGenius InfiniStreams at critical points in the network where high concentrations of conversations occur.
Netwitness Investigator NetWitness Investigator software provides security operations staff, auditors, and fraud and forensics investigators a tool to perform contextual analysis of raw network data. Netwitness does this full packet capture and session analysis.
NetworkView NetworkView is an ultra compact network discovery and management tool for Windows: •Discover TCP/IP nodes and routes using DNS, SNMP, Ports, NetBIOS and WMI •Get MAC addresses and NIC Manufacturer Names •Monitor nodes and receive Alerts •Document with printed Maps and Reports. •Control and Secure your network with the SNMP MIB Browser, the WMI browser and the Port Scanner.
New Boundary Prism New Bouindary Prism software is a Windows configuration management software for asset management and patch management.
ntop ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage: The traffic probe is connected to a web GUI for providing graphs and tables showing current and historical network traffic that includes protocol, source, and destination. ntop uses RRDTtoo, NetFlow and sFlow for retrieving traffic data.
Netcraft Versiera Netcraft Versiera is a web-based monitoring and management system for network-attached computer systems and equipment. Versiera allows administrators to keep a history of performance and important events for critical servers, helps verify the correct functioning of critical services and can notify operators in the event of failure. As part of its monitoring, Versiera maintains a database of all systems and their hardware configurations helping to maintain an accurate active asset inventory.
NetBrain NetBrain performs network discovery of device details and configurations, and network traffic flow. From this auto-discovery data, NetBrain software allows a user to search through the discovered network for: *Network device and application performance diagnosis and trouble-shooting: In a visual map, endpoint -to- endpoint route display including devices and performance of sections of the route: The visual map display of that section of the network can include adjoining devices to the specified devices along the route. The configuration files of these devices are also discovered and can be edited/reloaded in NetBrain. *Network simulation: In a visual map, network devices can have simulated configurations applied and performance tested in the NetBrain tool. Before deployment, the NetBrain software can be asked to capture a base-line performance set of readings from a network route, then after deployment, base-line performance can be compared to the new performance. *Export of device maps and reports: NetBrain can export the discovered device maps and network information to either Microsoft Visio or Word.
Netstumbler NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards. It runs on Microsoft Windows 98 and above.
Network Automation Automate Network Automation AutoMate 7 replaces script and custom app development for managing servers.
Network Eagle Network Eagle Monitor is network monitoring software. It can continuously monitor the state of your servers, various network services, and databases. If a monitored object changes, Network Eagle Monitor is able to send various notifications or perform some actions.
Network Instruments Observer Network Instruments Observer provides application monitoring and analysis including server, web/http, citrix, email, VoIP, database. Analysis includes using many metrics, flow analysis, and event monitoring.
NeuralStar NeuralStar provides a single screen where network events are visible from fault to security for devices, ports, applications and services, whether SNMP or non-SNMP based.
Nmap Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime.
Numara Software track-it Numara Software Track-it provids SNTP monitoring, alarming, and asset management.
NutsAboutNets NutsAboutNets supplies software tools for simulating and monitoring performance of wireless WiFi networks. The software emphasizes performance metrics over measurements of RF signal strengths. NetSurveyor-Pro is used to test the performance and reliability of a WiFi network and help identify and troubleshoot problems.
Nuvo NUVO provides software for network discovery, mapping, and root cause analysis. MAXadvantage is an online tool to provides access to problem tickets, change requests, performance reports, and asset inventory information from a web browser on their local PC.
OpenNMS OpenNMS is an open-source network management platform designed to be a distributed, scalable platform. Currently, OpenNMS focuses on three main areas: Service Polling - determining service availability and reporting on same. Data Collection - collecting, storing and reporting on network information as well as generating thresholds. Event and Notification Management - receiving events, both internal and external, and using those events to feed a robust notification system, including escalation.
OPNET Opnet provides a full set of software for application performance management, network operations, and network design and simulation.
Opsview Opsview is an open-source network management system based on the Nagios open-source network management system.
Overseer Overseer Network Monitor is a Windows server and network monitor that provides: Ping/Network Monitoring HTTP/Website Monitoring Services Monitoring Process/Task Monitoring Event Log Monitoring Disk Space Monitoring Environmental/Temperature Monitoring
Pacestar LanFlow Pacestar LanFlow Net Diagrammer lets you create LAN, internet, telecommunications, and computer network diagrams. LanFlow includes 2D and 3D common networking symbols, outline symbols, and some basic block diagramming symbols.
Paessler Paessler PRTG Network Monitor covers all aspects of network monitoring: up-/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, SNMP, NetFlow, packet sniffing and many more, combined with concise reporting and analysis features – one clear and simple solution for your entire network. PRTG Traffic Grapher is an easy to use Windows software for monitoring and classifying bandwidth traffic usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. The most common usage is bandwidth management, but you can also monitor many other aspects of your network like memory and CPU utilizations. Webserver Stress Tool is a powerful HTTP-client/server test application designed to pinpoint critical performance issues in your web site or web server that may prevent optimal experience for your site visitors.
Paglo Paglo discovers and seaches through your IT and log data to monitor your network.
Panopta Panopta is a complete server monitoring service and outage management system for online businesses and service providers that goes beyond basic monitoring to give you the tools you need to minimize the impact of outages to your online business.
Path Solutions Path Soluctions SwitchMonitor monitors switches, routers and links; monitoring for any faults or performance problems. Results are displayed on a web-based dashboard and will send notifications for problems.
Ping Ping ASDIC is a system for advanced traffic monitoring and analysis in large TCP/IP networks. It helps you to investigate the traffic in your network, surveying the activity finding potential weaknesses and threats before they cause you a disturbance.
Plixer Plixer Scrutinizer Netflow and sFlow Analyzer uses Netflow, sFlow, and other flow technologies to receive and store flow data from switches, routers, and other network devices. Denika Performance Trender is a utility that utilizes SNMP to monitor all aspects of nodes and devices on a network. WebNM is an network management software for monitoring servers, hosts, applications, databases and network devices and interfaces.
Power Admin Power Admin provices small and large network server and application monitoring, alerting, and reporting. The monitoring includes event logs, log files, disk space, services, and ping response times.
Precise Software Precise Software provides network discovery, and management and alerting of the health of servers, applications and the network.
Prism Microsystems EventTracker Prism Microsystems EventTracker is software for performing real-time log gathering, correlation, and analytics.
Q1 Labs Qradar Q1 Labs QRadar uses log management, network behavior analytics, and security event management for monitoring and analyzing networks for security concerns.
Quest PacketTrap Quest PacketTrap MSP provides patch management, ticketing, alerting, and remote control / help desk. PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite PRO consolidates dozens of network management and monitoring tools into a single, integrated interface. The tool suite includes Cisco configuration management, server and application monitoring, open source and third party integration, a robust encrypted credential store, the ability to save and flow results between tools, deep network discovery (with network mapping) and syslog server capabilities.
Quest ScriptLogic Quest ScriptLogic software provides for management of the network alerting, traffic monitoring, configuration and inventory.
Rackwise Rackwise provides software for data center equipment diagramming, tracking of assets, power management, virtual machine management, monitoring, and cable management.
Reflex Reflex VMC provides visibility through a logical, visual representation of the virtual infrastructure enabling administrators to track virtual assets, changes, performance and alerting events in real-time.
Riverbed Technology Cascade Riverbed Technology Steelhead appliances provide WAN optimization capability to branch offices and data centers. With Steelhead appliances, you can cut bandwidth usage and accelerate applications.
Robiac Robiac Desktop Auditor discovers computers in a domain and lists installed software, hardware, configuration and identification information.
Rocket Software Rocket provides network management system software used by major telecom manufacturers and supports integration with the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus. The software provides for discovery, monitoring, analytics, and display of network topology into Visio diagrams.
Science Logic ScienceLogic EM7 is a network applicance with features for performance management plus service desk and asset management. The application is intended for upper mid-sized to large organizations. EM7 provides auto discovery and comprehensive networking monitoring and management, web-site monitoring, configuration storage, performance meauring, application and database monitoring, hardware and software asset management, networking utilites, virtualization mangement, and trouble ticketing. First, EM7 SNMP discovers the devices on the network and allows the user to categorize them. Then the device data can be viewed with details on hardware and software. Application monitoring information is available to monitor the status of some off-the-shelf applications and top enterprise databases. Web-sites and email can be monitored for life and content. The product supports and reporting through a dashbooard, built-in reports (which allow modification) and alerting to users of event error occurances. Under the covers, the EM7 is a network applicance running Linux and storing data in a MySQL database. An advantage of being a pre-installed stand-alone appliance is a fairly fast to get up and going on your network.
Sereniti Sereniti performs home network device discovery and then draws a network map.
SecurActive SecurActive NSS is a network and application performance analysis appliance that captures the traffic on your network to analyze network activities and performance of your applications.
Servers Check SecurActive is used to troubleshoot, optimize capacity planning, monitor network security.
SevOne SevOne monitors, collects data, and reports on used capacity and traffic statistics of network devices. Monitoring includes NetFlow/SFlow, VoIP monitoring, latency analysis, and real-time alerting.
Shunra Shunra Software provides network emulation software that enable organizations to deliver high performing network applications.
Simple Server Monitor Simple Server Monitor is a low-priced software for basic server and web-site monitoring and alerting.
SimpleSoft SimpleSoft provides network simulation, SNMP probes, and SNMP development tools.
Site 24 x 7 Site 24 x 7 provides aneasy, fast and effective web server monitoring, server monitoring and website monitoring service.
SiteUpTime SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable. Free and Paid plans are available.
SmartDraw Smartdraw creates network diagrams.
SnmpSource SnmpSource is a .NET component toolkit for the development of SNMP-based management real-time applications to monitor the network performance.
Snort Snort is a popular open source network intrusion prevention and detection system.
Soft Inventive Total Network Inventory Software Inventive Total Network Inventory is a PC audit and network inventory software for office and large-scale enterprise networks. Total Network Inventory interrogates all computers and notebooks on a network and reports back with complete information about the OS, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, software, running processes, etc. on remote machines. This information is added to the centralized database and then network administrators can generate reports about each or all of the PCs (notebooks) on a network.
SolarWinds Orion Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers powerful fault and performance management at an affordable price. Solarwinds also provides a range of network monitoring and management functions and utilities.
Spector360 Spector360 monitors user activity including web-site visits, email usage, chat, and keystrokes.
Spiceworks Spiceworks is a network management & monitoring, helpdesk, PC inventory & software reporting solution to manage IT for small and medium businesses. Spiceworks is free.
Spy Tech NetVizor Spy Tech NetVizor employee monitoring software for corporate networks allows you to monitor your entire network. NetVizor allows you to track workstations and individual users that may use multiple PCs.
Stonesoft StoneGate Stonesoft StoneGate Management Center provides software for real-time monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, managing and reporting of security events giving administrators proactive control of both physical and virtual security networks as well as third-party events. Stonesoft also offers the StoneGate Firewall, StoneGate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and StoneGate SSL VPN which can be used with a standard Web browser. These products are available as either an appliance or a virtual appliance.
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Symantec Altiris Stonesoft also offers the StoneGate Firewall, StoneGate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and StoneGate SSL VPN which can be used with a standard Web browser. These products are available as either an appliance or a virtual appliance.
Tabs Lab Server Observer Tabs Lab ServerObserver is a monitoring tool to observe web servers, file servers, mail servers, databases, and domain name systems. It can measure CPU/disk usage, detect the vitality of any process, and search event logs.
Tamos CommView Tamos CommView is a network monitor and analyzer designed for LAN, remote LAN, and wireless administrators, security professionals, network programmers, home users…anyone who wants a full picture of the traffic flowing through a PC or LAN segment.
Tarosoft IsItUp Tamosoft IsItUp is a network monitoring application that continually monitors multiple network devices at specified intervals, notifying you when they go down - or come back up.
Techout Techout monitors web sites, web application business transactions (such as shopping carts), and REST/SOAP data exchanges.
Telchemy Telchemy VQmon® technology enables service providers and major enterprise to monitor and manage the performance of Voice over IP, IPTV, IP Videoconferencing, HD Telepresence, 3G/4G mobile, and other converged real-time services. Telchemy software provide real-time visibility into service quality, accurate estimates of user experience, QoS, IPTV QoE, VoIP QoE (MOS scores and R factors), and detailed analysis of the root causes of quality degradation.
Tenable Nessus Tenable Network Security provides software for real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring for administrators, auditors and risk managers.
Tibbo Aggregate Tibbo AggreGate is a device management platform to control, configure and monitor different electronic devices. It also helps you to aggregate device data into a common database.
TNT TNT Software makes Windows server event log monitoring software.
Tobi Oetiker MRTG MRTG monitors SNMP network devices and draws diagrams showing how much traffic has passed through each interface. MRTG is also being used to graph all sorts of network devices.
TouchStone Technologies Touchstone Technologies supplies software-based test and measurement solutions for IP communications networks and applications including call generators, distributed monitoring solutions and protocol analysis tools.
Turbo Networks NetScope NetScope is a web based network reporting and alerting tool that delivers graphical reports on current and historical network traffic and bandwidth and usage and alerts on network status.
Tsarfin NetInfo/NetGong Tsarfin NetInfo is a utility toolkit with tools like Local Info, Connections, Ping, Trace, Lookup, Finger, Whois, Daytime, Time, Quote, HTML, Scanner, Services, and E-mail. NetGong is a basic network monitoring/alerting system.
Uplogix Deployed in the NOC, the Uplogix Control Center delivers real-time monitoring and management capabilities, offering a unified view of what is occurring in your distributed infrastructure. As an element manager for Uplogix ARM appliances, the Control Center also serves as the gateway between the ARM appliances in the network and existing IT management systems. Uplogix Control Center is deployed on a pre-configured, dual CPU, rack-mountable server, and includes an embedded Oracle database engine.
Uptime Software Uptime Software systems management software enables IT organizations to optimally manage, measure, and monitor physical and virtual assets and infrastructure.
UpTrends UpTrends provides web-site uptime monitoring.
Veeam Veeam provides software for VMware backup, management and automate routine processes of VMware management and gain complete control over your virtual infrastructure.
Vector Networks Vector Networks provides software to discover and manage network inventory and usage.
Vigiliti Systems Vigiliti nLive software monitors and logs network traffic flow. Then nLive uses analytics to spot the cause of network traffic flow such as employee abuse, network faults, and malware.
Visionel Visionel performs network discovery, creation of network maps, and tracking of network assets.
Visual Route racks, and network devices. The software also provides for data, power, and port-to-port circuit tracing.
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WebMetrics WebMetrics provides monitoring of status, bandwith usage, and performance of web sites. WebMetrics also provides website load testing.
WebSitePluse WebSitePulse provides a service for monitoring web-sites, accessible servers, and applications.
WildPackets WildPackets provides tools for monitoring the packet level flow and bandwith of network devices.
WireShark Wireshark is a very popular open-source and free network protocol analyzer.
WoodStone Server Alive WoodStone Servers Alive is an end-to-end network monitoring tool running on Windows. It works agentless and across operating systems.
Wyvernsoft Netpalpus Wyvernsoft NetPalpus discovers network devices, creates a network map, groups devices by different criteria, provides monitoring & alerting, and provides statistic reports.
Xangati Xangati for ESX is a virtual appliance designed specifically to provide VM-to-Anything visibility for VMware environments. It provides virtualization professionals real-time visibility into all communications activity within a VMware ESX host so problems can be solved fast and performance improved.
xAssets xAssets offers hosted or locally installed asset management software for mid sized and large enterprises. Areas of focus are IT Asset Management Software, Fixed Asset Management Software, Financial Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Enterprise Asset Management, Service Management and Network Discovery Software.
Xenos Server Nanny Xenos Server Nanny provides server monitoring and alerting.
XpoLog XpoLog Manager collects and monitors network device logs and allows filtering, serach, and analyzing the logs.
Zabbix Zabbix is a network management software designed to monitor the status of network services, servers, and other network hardware.
Zap Zap is an open-source wireless network performance measurement utility for measuring wireless network signal performance over time, space, and frequency.
Zenoss Zenoss Enterprise provides Discovery & Configuration Tracking, Availability & Performance Monitoring, Fault & Event Management, Alerting & Remediation, and Reporting & Analysis for your network, physical servers, virtual servers, and applications.
Zyrion Traverse Zyrion Traverse software discovers and monitors network devices and processes those results to perform analytics which are presented to the user in a web-based application.