I was going to suggest them as well for their Orion product, also look at these http://www.netmon.ca/
If you are not 100% against trying something Open Source take a look at "Cacti" it's an MRTG on steroids, We use the CactiEZ Distro with Ntop and capture 100% of the traffic from all our switches which in turn helps us determine who is hogging the pipe. Setup can be done in 20 minutes if you have a free box or even less if you use Vmware -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network Monitoring tools Have you looked at SolarWinds? http://www.solarwinds.com/products/toolsets/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 -----Original Message----- From: Fancher, William [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network Monitoring tools We have experienced some slowing of our network recently. I am looking for a graphical network tool which will graphically show traffic from each node (NIC) and the inside and outside ports on the firewall. Price should be reasonable (under $1000 if possible) but we are not looking for a freebee I would hope for a short learning curve so the value can be demonstrated to mgmt quickly Thanks for your suggestions William Fancher Invention Machine Corporation Boston, MA 02199 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
