19 March 2019

Network monitoring specialist Paessler has launched its six-part Free Email Course on Bandwidth Monitoring.

Paessler said monitoring bandwidth helps IT admins to ensure availability of the relevant IT structure and is made up of four methods: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), Packet Sniffing, Flow and WMI.

Bandwidth monitoring means tracking the bandwidth usage of leased lines, network connections, network devices (routers, switches, etc.) and the like. The monitoring tools can also be used to alert administrators when network load issues occur, or bandwidth thresholds are breached.

According to the website, other benefits gained from monitoring bandwidth, include avoiding bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks, finding out which applications or servers are using up your bandwidth, delivering better quality of service to users, reducing cost by upgrading bandwidth and hardware only when necessary and identifying Shadow IT in the company. The course went live at the beginning of March. Visit https://www.paessler.com for more information.

Meanwhile, in September Paessler will launch All you ever wanted to know about SNMP. IETF1 developed SNMP in the late 1980s and is still in use today.

Paessler will examine why it is still used as a standard protocol and what the future holds. It will also show how SNMP works and what the alternatives are.