Or, for example, getting back “Yeh I m.” tells you that data is being lost in transition! And, of course, receiving no reply at all is most telling indeed. Monitoring ping is one of the best, most simple, and reliable ways to track the status of a server.Ī ping request, ever so simply, is a small snip of network communication that says to a server, “Hey, are you there?” and, ideally, the server quickly sends back, “Yeah, I am.”īy the same merit, getting the reply back from the server at wildly varying intervals tells you that something is amiss with processing or sending replies. In this particular write-up we'll examine some of the nuances of network monitoring and two pieces of software in particular that perform that very task – SolarWinds' Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Paessler PRTG‘s Network Monitor (NM).
Many of these bits of information can be tracked using the built-in capabilities of your server or hypervisor, but can frequently be far more cumbersome and slower than need be. The three together can do an excellent job of gauging what's going right, or wrong, and where to begin your search in the case of the latter! There's a trifecta of basic parts of a server and network environment which can swiftly and easily let you assess the state of the overall environment at a moment's notice.
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