Resource Management in Networking System Installation: A Report

This report investigates resource management within the context of networking system installation. It begins with an executive summary, followed by an introduction that defines resource management as the efficient use of organizational resources, including financial, human, and technological aspects. The significance of the investigation is highlighted, emphasizing the impact of effective resource management on business and individual effectiveness. The report then reviews available software solutions for resource management, including SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler, Manage Engine Op Manager, Zabbix, Icinga, and Datadog. Three software packages are selected for in-depth evaluation: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler, and Zabbix. The selection is based on cost-effectiveness and reliability in supporting networking system installation and resource management processes. The report details the features of each selected software, including their capabilities in network monitoring, performance analysis, and configuration management. The conclusion and recommendations summarize the findings and suggest the most appropriate software solutions for effective resource management in networking system installation.

Resource Management In
Networking System Installation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this project is to present a document outlining the use of networking
system installation in resource management. The specific area is selected for the research and
review is networking system installation which helps to support the process of resource
management. In addition, resource management can be described as effective and efficient
utilisation of raw materials available in the firm such as financial, production, human and
inventory materials at the time they are required. There are a lot of firms make effective use of
automated software tools and techniques in order to manage them.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
AIM..................................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
SIGNIFICANCE OF INVESTIGATION........................................................................................4
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE............................................................................................................4
SOFTWARE SELECTION...........................................................................................................13
CRITICALLY REVIEW...............................................................................................................14
SET CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION.........................................................................................14
WEIGHTING CRITERIA.............................................................................................................15
EVALUATION MATRIX.............................................................................................................15
JUSTIFICATION..........................................................................................................................15
DISCUSSION ON PROBLEMS...................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS..........................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
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AIM
To investigate and determine three accurate networking system installation software for
resource management. The report will demonstrate how this software support the process of
networking system installation in material management.
INTRODUCTION
Management of raw materials can be described as effective and efficient development of
stock available in the organisation or when they are needed. Such functions may involve
inventory, financial, production, human skills and information technology capability. There are
three software selected to support process of source management.
SIGNIFICANCE OF INVESTIGATION
There are different ways from which the organisation's are able to manage and control
their property. It can be said that the human resource management or system of a firm has a
significant impact on both business and an individual effectiveness. Capital management is
focused on strategic objectives and works by improving skills, motivation, knowledge and
contribution opportunities of employees. The main reason behind choosing these three software
for this research is that they are easy to use as well as effective towards monitoring different
activities involved in networking system (Nellore and Hancke, 2016). The other software are a
bit more complex as comparison to these three software packages selected for the project.
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE
The software selection is based on their cost, efficiency and reliability from all the above.
Here are some examples of available related packages provided below for the investigation,
which will help to increase effectiveness of resources utilisation and distribution within business: Solar-winds Network Performance Monitor PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler Manage Engine Op Manager Zabbix Incinga
 Datadog

Solar-winds Network Performance Monitor
Solar-winds network performance monitor is highly customizable product and also the
interface is very easy to manage that it changes quickly. It can be customized in web-based
performance dashboards, views and charts. A tailored topology can be designed for the entire
network infrastructure. In addition, customized dependency aware intelligent alerts can be also
created.
The tool has ability to automatically discover network devices and deploys within an
hour. It also has a simple approach to oversee whole network makes it one of the easiest software
to use and most intuitive user interface (Liang and Yu, 2015).

Key Features:-
 Tool automatically discover network and scanning for Wi-Fi and wired computer and
device.
 It supports for wide array of OEM vendor.
 Capacity planning and forecast.
 Pinpoint issues quickly with network performance with Net-Path critical path
visualisation feature.
 Performance dashboard is easy to use in order to analyse critical data paths and points
across the network.
 There is a robust alerting system with complex and simple triggers (Prasad, 2015).
 Monitor CISCO ASA networks with their New Network Insight™ for CISCO ASA.
 Monitor ACL's, VPN, Interfaces and Monitors on Cisco ASA.
 It also monitors firewall rules with the help of firewall rules browser.
 Analysis of critical components and network paths.
 Topology views and automatically network map.
 Monitor, manage and analyse Wi-Fi network.
 In order to pinpoint dead spot, it creates heat maps of Wi-Fi network.

 Display health of hardware for all firewalls, servers, desktops, switches, routers, laptops
and more.
 Real time network and Net-flow monitoring for network devices and components.
PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler
The system has advanced management capabilities regarding infrastructure that all
devices such as traffic, system and application in the network can be easily viewed in a
hierarchical view in order to summarise performances and alerts. PRTG monitor IT
infrastructure with the help of using technology such as SSH, WMI, SNMP, HTTP request, SQL,
Pings, REST API's and a lot more.
PRTG network monitor system is one of the best choices for businesses with low
experience in networking monitoring. In addition to this, the user interface is also very powerful

and easy to use. One of the most particular feature of PRTG is its ability which also known as its
strength to monitor device in the data centre with a mobile application effectively.
Moreover, a QR code that correspond to the sensor is printed out and attached to the
physical hardware. The application in mobile is used to scan the code and a summary of devices
which are displayed on thee mobile screen (Wu and Xia, 2015). PRTG performance monitor
from Paessler has a flexibility in pricing plan that the official website will help customers to
know the current and exact price of the software. The software can run on a Window machine
within network and collects statistics from designated host such as servers, routers and other
crucial applications and devices. It is very easy to operate and deploy that particularly it is in
SMB environment.
Manage Engine Op Manager
Manage Engine Op Manager is a management of infrastructure, application performance
management 'APM' and network monitoring software. The software is well balanced and
effective when it comes towards analysis of the feature or monitoring effectively. The solution is
helpful to manage the network, network configuration, servers, performance and fault. It also
helps to analyse the network traffic that it is also a useful tool for resource management.
The software should be installed on premises in order to run. One of the highlight of this
software is that the product comes with pre-configured devices and templates of network
monitoring. This contains pre-defined parameters and intervals of monitoring for particular or
specific device types (Xiang, Liu and Liu, 2016). The most essential edition of the software can
be purchased for $595 which allows 25 devices to connect effectively and efficiently. In addition
to this, there are some features of Manage Engine Op Manager such as:
 It provides real time network monitoring via live graphs and dashboards like discards and
errors.
 Physical and virtual server monitoring like memory utilisation, virtual and physical
server.

 Reactive monitoring helps to fix errors.
 It also provides detailed insights on network performance.
 Runs in only two minutes and no complex installation procedure is involved.
Zabbix
The software is very useful and frequently used to monitor server and network hardware.
One of the most essential feature of Zabbix is that it can easily predict trends in traffic. It can
forecast future behaviour which is usually based on historical data. It is an open source
monitoring tool popular for easy to use and pleasing web GUI that it fully configurable. The
software is mainly focused on monitoring and trending functionality. The software is also used to
monitor server and network hardware.

It is an open source and also has user community spread around the world for good
documentation. Zabbix provides freedom to use the solution from open sources without vendor
lock-ins. It is a strong tool for SMB network below 1,000 nodes. Moreover, software get slower
and its performance decreased over 1000 nodes (Amini, Moghaddam and Karabasoglu, 2017). In
addition to this, there is a disadvantage of this software that it does not include real time test or
report. Zabbix provides solutions to various businesses such as Aerospace, retail, energy &
chemicals, banking & finance, education, government, marketing, IT & telecommunication and
health care.
Incinga

Icinga is also an open source of service and infrastructure monitoring tool developed in
2009 by the same developers who invented or brought Nagios. The tool is very easy to use and
also flexible for SMB and business network. It mainly focuses on monitoring services and
infrastructure strongly (Logesh, 2017). This also include threshold analysis and alert
functionalities effectively.
The software is popular for delivering superior alert and report of the infrastructure
general health. All the alert dependencies can be easily displayed on the dashboards and sent
with the help online services such as SMS, internet, Email and message application. Icinga is
completely free since it becomes an open source. It has a very strong community forum and all
the support can be acquired by customer effectively and efficiently.
DATADOG

Datadog is a monitoring service which is designed to manage and control hybrid cloud
environment. It can also monitor performance of apps, services, network and tools. One of the
most highlight benefit of the Datadog is that it can deliver extensibility through many application
programming interfaces, API with the help of effective documentation.
The software is very easy to use as well as to install. This will help to run on time. Agents
are able to download and install the software in order to make it easy and effective (Le Blanc,
Spielman and Rice, 2016). Agents are also available for different and various platforms such as
Mac OS, Windows, Chef, Puppet, Docker and Several Linux distribution.

The software helps to create metrics, graphs and alert in instant that the software can
adjust them dynamically in various kind of situations. The services provided by this software are
free for starting period and then after the customer have to pay for this about $23/month
effectively.
SOFTWARE SELECTION
3 packages are selected from the above mentioned for the evaluation in order to
determine the most appropriate to support resource management within networking system
installation.
Here are the three software packages selected from the above mentioned available
packages in order to support different procedures of resource management in networking system
installation. These are accurate, cost effective and reliable to support the process of networking
system installation in resource management. Solar-winds Network Performance Monitor PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler Zabbix
Solar-winds Network Performance Monitor. It is a tool that helps to discover network
deploys and devices within an hour and also customize web based performance charts,
dashboards and views. Solar-winds 12.3 provides a deeper insight into Cisco ASA firewalls,
troubleshoot visibility and VPN tunnels with problems (Mittal, Shah and John, 2016). It also
consists, multi-vendor network monitoring for performance, availability and fault. Automated
capacity reporting, forecasting and alerting. It also provides deep performance visibility of
custom and commercial application. It also provides database performance story for the system
in order to determine effectiveness of resource management process effectively. In addition to
this, solar-winds also deliver customized network traffic reports, flow support and multi vendor
device. The software has unified storage monitoring across various devices and vendors.
Pinpoint storage performances are also delivered effectively. Configuration management and
network configuration manager.
PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler. The software is known for its advanced
infrastructure management capabilities that traffic, systems, devices and applications can be
easily displayed in a hierarchical view in network to summarize alerts and performances. The

software is capable of scanning network segments by pinging defined IP ranges. This will help to
determine a wide range of system and devices to create sensor from predefined templates. In
addition to this, the software can run on a Window machine within network and collects statistics
from designated host such as servers, routers and other crucial applications effectively. This will
help customer to save a lot of configurations work that it helps to start monitoring right away.
PRTG maps are also useful to create web pages with the help of monitoring data in desired
design. Maps are also made by monitoring data. PRTG software alerts when found something
unusual metrics or discover warnings. Push notifications can also easily get by mobile phone
users such as IOS, windows and Android and its also free. Messages can be easily set up via
SMS or Email according to the needs. Powerful API also help to write own notification scripts.
Zabbix which is an open source monitoring tool popular for easy to use and pleasing web
GUI that it fully configurable. The software provides solutions for IT infrastructure, applications,
services and cloud resources. In addition to this, the software is mainly focused on monitoring
and trending functionality (Park and Hahm, 2017). The software is also used to monitor server
and network hardware. Different servers are included in this software along with clouds,
services, KPI and SLA. Website monitoring, virtual machines, Java applications, security,
telephony and storage services are also provided by this software that helps towards resource
management effectively.
CRITICALLY REVIEW
All three software have different identity and work which helps professionals to set work
and objectives on daily basis effectively. For an example, PRTG network monitor helps to
manage systems, traffics, applications and devices to manage networking system.
SET CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION
Comparison Solar-winds Network
Performance Monitor
PRTG Network
Monitor from
Paessler
Zabbix
Cost 2 3 0
Reliability 2.5 2 1.5
Efficiency 2 2 1.5

Desirability 3 1.5 2.5
Total 9.5 8.5 5.5
WEIGHTING CRITERIA
The three software are given weight-age in rating of 1-5 according to their cost,
reliability, efficiency and desirability. The highest weighting criteria is given to Solar-winds
Network Performance Monitor, as it is the best from others.
EVALUATION MATRIX
Comparison Solar-winds Network
Performance Monitor
PRTG Network
Monitor from
Paessler
Zabbix
Cost Moderate High Low
Reliability High Moderate Moderate
Efficiency Moderate Moderate Low
Desirability High Low Moderate
JUSTIFICATION
It is concluded from the above evaluation matrix that Solar-winds Network Performance
Monitor is determined best in terms of cost, reliability, efficiency and desirability. Other
software are not much effective in all terms as compared to Solar-winds. In addition to this,
solar-winds performance dashboard is easy to use and also monitors firewall rules with the help
of firewall rules browser as compared to others. Solar-winds performance monitor tools
compatibility as compared to others in terms of efficiency, desirability and reliability expecting
cost which is too high as per the services offered by tool effectively.
DISCUSSION ON PROBLEMS
There are no major issues identified while dealing with the software. It can be said that
all five software are easy to use and compatible at their own place according to their cost and

reliability. The rankings of selected software ability in order to support resource management
process is also acquired by solar-winds. However, it is important to determine demerit of the
software at the time of addressing in order to make solution for the issues. In that case, one major
issue is identified regarding software which is cost that is too high and on the other hand it is also
not desirable. N case, if the software implementation or integration fails, it will prove costly to
them. Ultimately, further software will be required to be sourced which is compatible. Flexibility
and adaptability of software can also affect the project team ability to fill their required roles and
duties effectively.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the results of evaluating software and critical review, it is conducted that solar-
winds performance monitor is the selected software package which will help towards process of
resource management in order to support networking system effectively.
The critical review and evaluation conducted in this report determines that it is focused
on primarily software ability to provide support to the process of resource management. Solar-
winds PM is identified as greater capability to plan, monitor and allocate resources towards the
project plan for the proper and appropriate management of resources with networking system
installation effectively.

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