The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of

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network monitoring systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.

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; Product Name : The name of the software, linked to its Wikipedia article. ; IP SLAs Reports : Support of Cisco's IP Service Level Agreement mechanism. ; Logical Grouping : Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors into user-defined groups. ; Trending : Provides trending of network data over time. ; Trend Prediction : The software features algorithms designed to predict future network statistics. ; Auto Discovery : The software automatically discovers hosts or network devices it is connected to. ; Agentless : The product does not rely on a software agent that must run on hosts it is monitoring, so that data can be pushed back to a central server. "Supported" means that an agent may be used, but is not mandatory. An

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behaviour. Devices that typically ...

daemon does not count as an agent. ; SNMP : Able to retrieve and report on

statistics. ; Syslog : Able to receive and report on

Syslog In computing, syslog is a standard for message logging. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that reports and analyzes them. Each message is labeled with a facility code, i ...

s. ; Plugins : Architecture of the software based on a number of 'plugins' that provide additional functionality. ; Triggers/Alerts : Capable of detecting threshold violations in network data, and alerting the administrator in some form. ; WebApp : Runs as a web-based application. :* No: There is no web-based frontend for this software. :* Viewing: Network data can be viewed in a graphical web-based frontend. :* Acknowledging: Users can interact with the software through the web-based frontend to acknowledge alarms or manipulate other notifications. :* Reporting: Specific reports on network data can be configured by the user and executed through the web-based frontend. :* Full Control: ALL aspects of the product can be controlled through the web-based frontend, including low-level maintenance tasks such as software configuration and upgrades. ; Distributed Monitoring : Able to leverage more than one server to distribute the load of network monitoring. ; Inventory : Keeps a record of hardware and/or software inventory for the hosts and devices it monitors. ; Platform : The platform (Coding Language) on which the tool was developed/written. ; Data Storage Method : Main method used to store the network data it monitors. ; License : License released under (e.g.

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, etc.). ; Maps : Features graphical network maps that represent the hosts and devices it monitors, and the links between them. ;

Access Control In the fields of physical security and information security, access control (AC) is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, while access management describes the process. The act of ''accessing'' may mean consuming ...

: Features user-level security, allowing an administrator to prevent access to certain parts of the product on a per-user or per-role basis. ; IPv6 : Supports monitoring

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...

hosts and/or devices, receiving IPv6 data, and running on an IPv6-enabled server. Supports communication using IPv6 to the SNMP agent via an IPv6 address.

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