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IPHost Network Monitor is a network monitoring
Network monitoring
The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages...

 tool for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. This software is for availability and performance monitoring of web sites and servers, intranet/internet applications, mail servers, database servers, and other network resources. Standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more." It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor...

) you can use to monitor performance and other parameters of your servers (Unix/Linux/Mac/Windows) and network equipment such as routers, printers and UPSs.Any performance counters on Windows servers and workstations can be monitored via WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Management Instrumentation is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components provide information and notification...

). Other supported protocols are: HTTP, HTTPS
Https
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server...

, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, ODBC, PING
Ping
Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer...

, and others. Native support for Oracle, MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 and MS SQL Server databases.

See also

  • Nagios
    Nagios
    Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better....

    : Popular open source network monitoring system
  • Extromatica Network Monitor
    Extromatica Network Monitor
    Extromatica Network Monitor is a network monitoring application created and maintained by Extromatica company. It is designed to monitor network hardware, servers and network services for faults and performance degradation. It alerts users when things go wrong and again when they get better...

    : Popular commercial network monitoring software

External links

  • IPHost Network Monitor Link to availability and performance monitoring tool web site. 30-day trial available.
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