If you're a system or network administrator, you need monitoring tools. You have to know, at all times, the status of your systems so you can optimize performance and head off potential problems. Thankfully, plenty of tools are available to help you stay in the know about your systems. Some of these products are costly and do quite a lot. But others are free and do just as much and in some cases, more. I want to introduce you to five system and/or network monitors that do more than you'd think they could do. From this list of products you will certainly find one or more tools that will serve your needs.
I'm looking for some software that can monitor inbound and outbound traffic through my D-Link DIR-655 router by individual workstation. I'm running a XP machine as a server x86, with coldfusion MX (for our home website), and a syslog server on the same machine. The software would run on this machine. The criteria are:
1. I should differentiate between intranet and internet traffic 2. It should be persistent; that is; it keeps track of stats between reboots of server (software like active wall does not retain stats when server reboots). 3. It should also be able to run when server is in logged out state, either as an application or service, preferrably a service. 4. It should not cost alot. 5. It should be able to collect stats on all connected workstations, whether DHCP or static IPs, including consoles like PS3, Wii and xBOX360. 6. It should support XP, Vista and 7, in both 32 and 64 bit versions. 7. Preferably, no agent should be installed on each of the workstations (flexible on this as long as footprint is small). All workstations are 64 bit.
This is a home network, with 17 connected devices; windows 7 x64 x 9, Win XP x86 x 1, PS3, Wii, xBox, and 4 iPhones.
Wi-Fi is relatively easy to configure, but optimizing, securing, and diagnosing problems with a wireless network can be a challenge. Here are five free tools that can help. Five free wireless networking tools.
I'm looking for really good network tools software, that can completely manage my LAN - monitor network activity on all PC's on the LAN (upload/download activity), port scanning, wireless management, assigning IP addresses and just all the general network tasks.
I was talking to some folks who use Windows and various Linux flavors and on the subject of memory, they tell me they do not trust the built in Ram monitoring tools to report Ram usage as well as Linux does.
What do you guys think about this?
Is there anything to it.. if so, are there better free 3rd party Ram monitoring tools for Windows?
[code] I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. Inside the bios of my computer is an option to use the onboard graphics controller or to use the graphics card installed on my PCI Express slot. If I select the PCI Express option, the motherboard automatically disables the onboard controller before it even reaches the OS and so it is impossible to extend my desktop. The only way to fix this issue would be a bios update. Anyway, here is what I did instead on Windows XP. I would just use the bios and select the option to use the onboard graphics controller. The OS would start and use the onboard video card and would then detect the graphics card (with the proper drivers) and detect the monitor attached to that card. I would then successfully be able to extend my desktop to the other monitor select proper resolution and even choose which monitor is the default monitor. Thus we have dual monitoring. Now that I have upgraded to Windows 7 I can't get this setup to work.
If I use the bios and select the graphics card option, then in Windows 7 the graphics card is detected (and installed with proper drivers) and the monitor that is attached is properly installed. Inside device manager everything looks perfectly fine (no yellow things), except that the onbaord graphics controller is not detected (but that is to be expected, since that also happens in the XP case). If I use the bios and select the onboard graphics card option, then Windows 7 starts up with the onboard graphics card (with proper drivers installed) and the monitor attached to that port works fine. However, it does not seem to detect the graphics card. Inside device manager, under displays it lists the onboard graphics controller and the GeForce graphics card as properly installed and working. However, it also lists a new, unknown video controller?!???!!? Is this the graphics card again? Does it need more drivers? I can't get the computer to detect the monitor on the graphics card. Apparantly this seems to be an issue with Windows 7. Both monitors successfully work on both graphics controllers (the PCI Express and the onboard), just not at the same time. I don't think this is some type of drivers issue, but I am no expert.
I'm looking for some software so I can monitor software installations so I can see what changes are made to the system during the installation and monitor what registry changes are made. I know such software is around as I used to monitor installations on my old VM a while back but I cannot for the life of me remember what the title of it is!!
I just installed a AMD Phenom II x4 925 processor. I have Speedfan 4.40, is that good enough? I have it on a Arctic Silver 5 with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro 92mm heat sink and I want to monitor the temperatures as I run Prim95.
I am looking for software to output basic infomation about my computer, cpu usage & temp, gpu usage & temp, ram usage & temp?, net up and down, and hdd read & write? I currently have CoreTemp, but the gui is blah, I am more interested in text base gui and if possible within the taskbar too.
I am new to the Windows environment, I wonder if someone can give me a pointer to find some tutorial explaining the use of the task manager especially the interpretation of the Performance monitoring Tab.
i happened to notice that whenever start my computer and check my boot performance in event viewer->Application and Services log->Microsoft->Windows->Diagnostics Performance->Operational, there are two events that are logged. First is Boot Performance Monitoring (Event 100) and below it at is Shutdown Monitoring Performance (Event 200). Whenever i start my comp. these two events are logged together at the same time.why shutdown performance monitoring is logged when i start the comp? is it normal for both the events (100, 200) to occur together? shouldn't the shutdown performance event be logged when i shut down my comp?
i want to check why my bandwith is overloaded. I have server on my own computer, and want to check what exactly users are downloading from it, is there any program for it?
I need a way of monitoring if performance cpu stuttering is going on. It seems like it is as in games the screen stutters when it was smooth before. How can I monitor this or check for this? What is causing this?
Yesterday morning, I re-seated my HSF and also installed an old DVD burner from my old computer into my newly built one (built on 11/6/09). It should be a pretty fast system (i7 920, 120-GB SSD, 6GB DDR3 OCZ Platinum...), and I was fine with the boot time before yesterday (though I think it was still closer to a minute), but after I started it up yesterday (post install), it took a long time to start up and seemed to hang on the "Starting Windows" screen.
I've done alot of researching, and can't quite figure out what is wrong, though maybe it has to do with the DVD drive I put in. I checked the device, and it says it is working properly and it says the driver is up to date.
This Error appeared yesterday in the log (though I just checked the log today). This error comes up as a Warning almost everyday in the event log (except 2 Fridays ago ?), along with Event ID 300 for most of the previous week.
Any ideas? The only thing that I can think of is to do a re-install of Windows 7 (64bit), but I'm a bit nervous about that.
Today, when I turned on my computer, i saw this message:"Hard Drive SELF MONITORING SYSTEM has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential hard drive problem".
I was just wondering if there is a program that monitors all of your system specs and reports to you if anything is not running the way it's supposed to? I'm also wondering if this program has a cool widget I can put on my desktop also? For instance, I have Core Temp, GPU meter and other windows 7 widgets, but I don't think they actually alert you if something ever does go wrong or if temps are out of their normal range. I just built a new machine and I want to make sure everything is running fine and the way it's supposed to.
I cannot get any of my Administrative tools to work I get file system error 1073741792 message when I try to use them.And when I try to use Services or Resource Monitor in Windows task manager the will not launch they just will not do anything not even give me an error message.I have tried doing a Defrag and it also wont work. totally out of my depth wit this.
Both my home workstation(core i 5 ,750, 6 gig ram) and laptop(amd turion, 4 gigs of ram,hp pavilion ) runs on ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. my development environment is centos 5.5 running on virtualbox in both of my machines.i'm in a vacation now...yesterday i accidentally broke the screen of the laptop. And my wife insisted for "romantic" vacation and in other words a severely remote place where there is no way of fixing my laptop until i get back to the city. All i have now is my wife's laptop which runs on windows 7 and a very slow dial up modem. so big downloads are out of the question. But i need some work done now and it cant wait. I have searched but i have not found any suitable stuffs for my work...So please help me with the stuffs i need ..i've listed the required things bellow....where can i get them....
1.good c compiler which supports posix standard....i have installed cygwin but if there is any better port for gcc will be wonderful.
2.llvm and clang compilers...
3.good haskell IDE like leksah(haskell does have a good windows port.
4.this is very important....a common lisp package contains slime,sbcl(gnu clisp),emacs bundle.
I have not the Search tool in the Star menu and libraries, just in IE. I have checked the tutorial here, I did everything I checked the box and it's ticked, I don't understand the reason which the Search tool is not working when I accept the changes and it starts to make the changes but at the end a message pops-up and says that some of the features did not change correctly I don't understand what's going on.
Can anybody point me in the right direction as to where I can find a Maxtor Drive Diagnostic tool as I seem to be getting a lot of errors on my drive, Have tried Google but got lost in the thousands of links.
I would like to know if there are any tools that can be used to slipstream windows 7. The windows 7 consumes around 8 to 10gb in full installation and i am unable to create a test environment because it takes around 45 minutes for a fresh installation.
how to uninstall ATI Tray Tools? There is no entry in Programs and Features. There is no folder under C:/ Programs. ATI tray tools killed Windows Live Mail!
