Network Monitoring Tool
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Is there a free or really cheap monitoring tool out there? The network at work runs a proprietary package for sales of motorcycles, boats, personal watercraft, and parts for all. It periodically reports an error, varying in details, but always indicating to me a connection problem, too many collisions or something. The cabling in the building is a really botched job, and I suspect that timeouts are occurring in database requests, since these errors nearly always happen when a user tries to update something. What I need is a simple tool to listen in on the network - client or server side - and report the number of collisions, bad packets, etc over a period of time. Ideally it would do so from the background, recording results to a log file. If this was a Win2K system I'd use the performance counters that are built in, but it's built around a WinNT server and Win98 clients. WinNT is too hard to configure for this (and the server is too slow @ 500MHz), and Win98 lacks the facility at all. Any suggestions? Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Is there a free or really cheap monitoring tool out there? The network at work runs a proprietary package for sales of motorcycles, boats, personal watercraft, and parts for all. It periodically reports an error, varying in details, but always indicating to me a connection problem, too many collisions or something. The cabling in the building is a really botched job, and I suspect that timeouts are occurring in database requests, since these errors nearly always happen when a user tries to update something. What I need is a simple tool to listen in on the network - client or server side - and report the number of collisions, bad packets, etc over a period of time. Ideally it would do so from the background, recording results to a log file. If this was a Win2K system I'd use the performance counters that are built in, but it's built around a WinNT server and Win98 clients. WinNT is too hard to configure for this (and the server is too slow @ 500MHz), and Win98 lacks the facility at all. Any suggestions? Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
Check this out: Free Network Monitoring Software.
Ian Mariano - Bliki | Blog
"We are all wave equations in the information matrix of the universe" - me -
Check this out: Free Network Monitoring Software.
Ian Mariano - Bliki | Blog
"We are all wave equations in the information matrix of the universe" - meThanks for the link, Ian! There's a lot of good stuff there!:-D Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.