The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, pager or other alarms) in case of outages. It is a subset of the functions involved in network management. This book is your ultimate resource for Network Monitoring. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Network Monitoring right away, covering: Network monitoring, Computer network, Network administrator, Network management, Intrusion detection system, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Email, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Internet Message Access Protocol, Post Office Protocol, Response time (technology), Availability, Uptime, WAN optimization, Timeout (computing), SMS, System administrator, Telecommunications link, Network traffic measurement, Network tomography, Route analytics, Website monitoring, HTTP Secure, Simple Network Management Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, Domain Name System, Secure Shell, Telnet, Transport Layer Security, Transmission Control Protocol, Internet Control Message Protocol, Session Initiation Protocol, User Datagram Protocol, Comparison of network monitoring systems, Nines (engineering), Network Monitoring Interface Card, Network tap, Business service management, Accelops, Accounting management, ActionPacked! Networks, Active monitor, Admon, AdRem Software, Agent Extensibility Protocol, AiCache, Alarm filtering, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, Automounter, Autonomic Networking, Avaya Enterprise Switch Manager, Avaya Proactive Voice Quality Management, Avaya Unified Communications Management, Baselining, BaseN, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, Big Brother (software), Big Sister (software), Bi