What should be Monitored

Active network monitoring is a must to gain accurate and real time visibility of the health of your networks. However, frequent monitoring can become a huge strain on your network resources as it generates a lot of traffic on the network, espicially when monitoring multiple networks.

We recommend to monitor only the critical devices on the network. This is the best practice adopted by network administrators worldwide.

Following are the components of the network that are found critical:

• WAN Infrastructure: Routers, WAN Switches, Firewall, etc.
  
• LAN Infrastructure: Switches, Hubs, and Printers.
  
• Servers, Services, and Applications: Application Servers, Database servers, Active Directory, Exchange Servers, Web servers, Mail servers, CRM Applications, etc.
  
• Host Resources: CPU, Memory, and Disk Utilization of critical devices.
  
• Critical Desktops and Workstations.