NETWORK MONITORING

Networking Monitoring Tools - An in-depth Analysis



Networking Monitoring Tools - An in-depth Analysis

Introduction

Network monitoring tools have ample importance while facilitating a huge number internet monitoring as well as internet filtering services. The services commonly include the provisions of blocking unauthorized access to the internet and specifically to various sites. Moreover, they are quite helpful for the parents which are facing problems to keep an eye on their children's internet activities. Hence, these tools are quite useful for blocking the adult content which is spreaded far and wide all over the internet. The software or network monitoring tools, which we are going to discuss, are two most prominent one, which are IpMonitor and Wireshark. Each one of them are optimized for a use and helps in tackling a number of internet related issues (Networkmonitoring.org, 2011).

Comparison of IpMonitor and Wireshark

The basic differences between the two network monitoring tools are the nature of licensing. IpMonitor is quite a complex as well as bulkier tools for providing the best security. It comes for a certain huge price which is around $995 for 500 users. On the other hand, the Wireshark is nothing but an open source software which is quite better for home users and businesses which lie in the domain of small and medium level business units.

The recent version of IpMonitor detects the compliance of SLA along with various loopholes together with the most flexible as well as user friendly interface. On the other hand, the Wireshark does not have the SLA compliance and is facing major installation issues with its new version 1.0.2 which was released recently. Moreover, the difficulty is not resolved till now and has made the task of persons quite difficult by the use of libpcap libraries. These libraries are quite commonly used to confine the network ...