Ping Assist Pro- Network Monitoring
Ping Assist
I thought I would take a moment to write about a new application i've recently come to find quite valuable, as I do for most of my posts.
As a Network Administrator for a Windows Server 2003 environment with 12 different domains and VPN connections, I often times find myself struggling to ensure my network is running healthy at all times. Power failures in our area are a constant issue. After searching for a utility that would simply ping our critical devices to ensure the maximum possible up-time, I came across a utility called "Ping Assist Pro". Pinging devices is simple enough, but to have a utility that would ping multiple devices and provide alerts for the instance that a device was found to be un-reachable became quite appealing.
After only a very short time of utilizing this application I found myself fixing/resolving all connection issues before any employees had a chance to report them and this is allowing me to free up time monitoring network devices. Bottom line, there appear to be a lot of network monitoring applications out there, but if your looking for an application that is extremely easy to use, provides alerts, logs, stats and a nice GUI then I would highly recommend this ping utility.
Learn more... Monday, November 22, 2010
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