Network Monitoring Service

To keep all the various servers, network applications, hardware, and services running optimally all the time is the dream of every company's network and server administrators. A network monitoring service is used to monitor the uptime, optimal availability, and performance of all such devices, network applications, hardware, and network services used by a computer network.

In this article, we will attempt to inform you about various details of and aspects that pertain to a network monitoring service.

Basically, a network monitoring service continuously monitors the uptime, optimal availability, and performance of all the above devices, servers, network applications and network services. It collects statistics on the above aspects. As soon as it encounters the failure or lower than optimal performance of a server, network device, application, or network service, it issues the requisite specific alerts.

The newest type of alerts that such a network monitoring service uses is known as a threshold alert. The threshold defines the level of certain parameters which will result in the performance as non-optimal. When a specific threshold has been exceeded by a certain value, a threshold alert is issued immediately. These alerts are then sent via e-mail to the appropriate network or server administrator.

The appropriate administrator can then initiate immediate remedial action to find a solution to the problem so that optimal operation can then be restored..

The various servers that a company's network may have include a Web server, an applications server, an e-mail server, and a database server.

The various network devices that a computer network may have include routers, switches, wireless access points, firewalls, and modems, not to forget the network cables.

The various network applications and services that a computer network may have include firewalls, port scanners, anti-virus software, network traffic monitoring applications, and cyclic redundancy check applications.

Broadband Internet connectivity providing backbone leased line or dedicated line is also a very important component of a computer network. Without its optimal functioning, a computer network will be doomed.

Any non-optimal functioning or failure of any of the above will cause a critical impact on a company's business. So, it is imperative that a company utilize a good network monitoring service for monitoring.

The service can be out-sourced by a company. Alternatively, it can be an in-house service. A network monitoring service, it is important to stress, must be capable of working independently of the network. Such a network monitoring service acts remotely over the Internet to a company's office networked computers.

A computer network monitoring service must also be capable of monitoring a company's distributed network.

Through this article, you may have gained an insight into the function of a network monitoring service. For more info, you can search the Internet.