Network monitoring tools: enabling the management of network assets, ensuring high availability
International Journal of Development Research
Network monitoring tools: enabling the management of network assets, ensuring high availability
Received 27th March, 2020; Received in revised form 22nd April, 2020; Accepted 06th May, 2020; Published online 29th June, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Jefferson Gonçalves Coelho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
With the advancement of technology and communication systems as monitoring tools used to manage the network essential to ensure the continuous functioning of systems and devices on a company's network. Through bibliographic research, with studies on computer network and its communication protocols, experimental, considering procedures and manuals of installation, configuration, descriptive, to verify the data collected by the tools. It presents a comparison between Zabbix and Nagios, two open source tools very popular in the market, to conclude which tool is best suited to media and large companies’ scenarios. In summary, Zabbix presents a more viable option for the growth and efficiency of network management in companies. Nagios, on the other hand, proved to be adaptable to different scenarios, with the availability of several plugins increased by the community.
