Comparison of Server Monitoring Tools and Their Impact on Network Management

Running Head: Data and Network 0
Data and
Network
Report
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Data and Network 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Report Layout............................................................................................................. 2
Comparison................................................................................................................ 2
Evaluation.................................................................................................................. 5
Identification and analysis.......................................................................................... 6
Propose...................................................................................................................... 6
Conclusion.................................................................................................................. 7
References................................................................................................................. 8

Data and Network 2
Introduction
Server monitoring tools are highly used for server configuration and management.
Most of the organizations have used a proper server monitoring tool to avoid critical
issues in their network and other services.
Report Layout
This report will compare different server monitoring tools and usages for
configuration. It will describe architecture and impact of the failure of monitoring.
Comparison
There are various server monitoring tools are available in the market, which
provides monitoring facility to the administrator. There are some tools, which
are highly used for server monitoring.
Tools Disk
Usage
CPU
monitorin
g
Process
Monitorin
g
Bandwidt
h
Monitorin
g
Resource
Measuring
Overall
availabili
ty
Nagios
Core
It
provides
better
disk
usage as
compare
d to
other
It provides
good
visualizati
on of
results
It
provides
the best
approach
for
proses
monitorin
g
It can
easily
manage
all the
bandwidt
h of
enterpris
e
It can
manage
more
than100
node
Overall
availabili
ty is
more
than 90
%
Ganglia It is an
open
source
monitori
It works
for grids
and
clusters
It
provides
a solid
monitorin
It has
managed
bandwidt
h based
Maximum
efficiency
will provide
using XML
It
provides
better
availabili

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ng
system.
Disk
usage is
high in
this tool
and
provides
high CPU
monitorin
g
g facility
especiall
y in
universit
y
on a
hierarchic
al design
for data
representat
ion
ty to
each
node
CollectD It usages
disk
properly
It can
manage
all the
system
performan
ce
properly
It is an
open
source
tool and
provides
better
process
monitorin
g using
data
collection
It can
manage
small
enterpris
e
bandwidt
h easily
It is better
in load over
time and
creates
alerts for
that issue
Overall
availabili
ty is
good for
all
monitori
ng
Spicewor
ks
It is
better in
the
monitori
ng of all
the
processe
s
properly.
Disk
usage is
good for
the
system
and
It provides
all the up
and
downtime
of CPU
and
creates
alerts
Process
monitorin
g is good
in this
software
Bandwidt
h
monitorin
g is not
proper in
this tool
Resource
monitoring
is good in
this tool
Overall
availabili
ty is not
too good