Daily Network Monitor

Here’s what our booth looked like yesterday.

The show was a great success yesterday, and I saw a few interesting vendor exhibits.

First up, Finjan. They offer proactive behavior-based detection of malicious content including - Zero-hour protection against vulnerabilities; Anti-Spyware; Anti-Phishing/Pharming; URL Filtering; Anti-Virus. I interviewed one of the team and will be posting his insights later.

Another vendor with a ..different…way of presenting it was Xangati. In their words, “Xangati has developed an innovative solution which uses flow-based information and allows IT personnel to instantly pinpoint user and service abnormalities throughout the entire enterprise”.

Last, but certainly not least were our old Network World friends at Statseeker. If you are looking at REALLY high-end high-end Enterprise Network Performance tools, they deserve a serious look in my opinion.

The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network enviroment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.

Some of it’s features:

* The Dude is free of charge!
* Auto network discovery and layout
* Discovers any type or brand of device
* Device, Link monitoring, and notifications
* Includes SVG icons for devices, and supports custom icons and backgrounds
* Easy installation and usage
* Allows you to draw your own maps and add custom devices
* Supports SNMP, ICMP, DNS and TCP monitoring for devices that support it
* Individual Link usage monitoring and graphs
* Direct access to remote control tools for device management
* Supports remote Dude server and local client
* Runs in Linux Wine enviroment, MacOS Darwine, and Windows
* Best price/value ratio compared to other products (free of charge)