November 29th, 2007 by James Cerwinski
Categories: Network Monitoring
Network Monitoring Reports
A list of my Top Five Network Monitoring Reports - No IT organization should do without.
Network Report Card - Provides an overview of how your network performed in terms of availability, security grade and network traffic over a certain period of time. This report should be automatically generated and distributed on a scheduled basis.
Inventory Report - Should automatically discover, update and list the hardware and software in your network. The hardware includes - CPU, RAM, Hard Disk, etc. The software includes application name and version. This should include a complete listing as well as the ability to run a delta view to show the changes between two specific dates.
Performance Report - Provides the current status and trend lines for hard disk space, memory utilization and interface traffic.
Network Traffic Report - Network traffic should include top talkers, top sessions, most resolved DNS names, top web sites visited and traffic by application protocol.
Software Application Report - Should enable you to find the nodes that either have or don’t have a combination of software applications.
Let me know your thoughts…. add to the list
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