There are various handy tools to connect to the network, get routing information from our routers, Network diagnostic tools for analysing your network performance and traceroute route.

 Trace route:

Application to varify IP address or hostname of a node on the Internet; the script will try to trace the IP route to that node.

Find these applications on the following website: www.traceroute.org

Network Monitoring Tools:

Use these tools to test the reliablity and operational status of your desktop computer and network connection. It does this by sending data between your computer and this remote NDT server. The tests will determine:

• The slowest link in the end-to-end path (Dial-up modem to 10 Gbps Ethernet/OC-192)
• The Ethernet duplex setting (full or half);
• If congestion is limiting end-to-end throughput.

• Alerting - Add notifications and alerts to your monitoring scripts or jobs;
• Application Monitoring - Monitor application behaviour and performance;
• Database Monitoring - Monitor databases;
• Enterprise Management - Complete solutions for the enterprise, with integrated network & system Management, database management, application management and so on;
• Environmental Monitoring - Monitor Temperature, Humidity, Wetness (water leaks) and other environmental items;
• Event Log Monitoring - Monitor Event Logs; archive Event Logs to MS SQL or other database; advanced Event Log querying;
• Network & System Monitoring - Enhanced commercial network & system monitoring tools;
• Network Diagnostic Tools - Enhanced network diagnostic tools;
• Network Traffic Monitoring - Traffic flows through and between critical network devices, utilization statistics;
• PC Monitoring - Record and view activities of PC's in a network environment;
• Performance Monitoring - Performance monitoring of network traffic, CPU usage, diskspeed, and so on;
• Protocol Analyzing and Packet Capturing - Packet capture tools, network sniffers, performance monitors and so on;
• Security Monitoring - Security monitoring of workstations and servers;
• Service Level Monitoring - SLA monitoring and reporting, end-to-end response time monitoring, business service dashboards;
• SNMP Monitoring - SNMP based monitoring;
• VoIP Monitoring - VoIP monitoring software and VoIP QoS monitoring software;
• Web Monitoring - Web monitoring and web analyzing tools;
• Miscellaneous - All other monitoring tools.