Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your switches.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your network switches. Show hardware health, bandwidth usage, packet loss, uptime, port utilization and port status, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and topology maps to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot your switches efficiently.
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When monitoring switch ports, administrators are up against some major challenges. They must be able to continually check for closed ports that should actually be open, as well as for potentially dangerous open ports.
With PRTG, you'll keep constant track of your switch ports and automatically receive an alarm if there is some unusual activity.
If a switch is stretched beyond its capacities, then it is sure to break down. Such a situation is both frustrating and unnecessary.
With PRTG, you are quickly informed of impending overloads and can upgrade the switch accordingly and also plan for more hardware resources – for more bandwidth capacity on your switches.
Switch monitoring is not just about observing the status of your switches. It’s also important to understand the kind of traffic they are handling.
With PRTG, you gain insights into the data flowing through each switch, allowing for a comprehensive traffic analysis. These insights let you identify patterns, prioritize critical applications, and optimize bandwidth allocation.
PRTG's monitoring capabilities go beyond tracking the health and performance of your network switches. The network monitoring tool also provides an overview of your entire vital network infrastructure including all critical connections and components.
This ensures that you have a properly working network environment and minimizes potential downtimes.
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
The SNMP Cisco System Health sensor monitors the system health of a Cisco device. It can show the following:
The SNMP Dell Hardware sensor monitors performance counters on a Dell hardware device. It can show the following:
The NetFlow v9 sensor receives traffic data from a NetFlow v9-compatible device and shows the traffic by type. This sensor has several filter options to divide traffic into different channels. It can show the following and more:
The Port v2 sensor monitors a network service by connecting to one or more of its TCP/IP ports. It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your switches.
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Switch monitoring is the process of continuously observing and managing the performance, status, and activities of network switches. It allows network administrators to ensure switches are operating efficiently, identify potential issues before they escalate, and keep a tab on network traffic.
Switch monitoring with PRTG offers multiple benefits:
Many sysadmins resort to the command line for swift checks, such as verifying the availability of a particular network device (e.g., a switch). Nonetheless, expert monitoring delves deeper.
An advanced monitoring solution employs protocols like SNMP, NetFlow, and IPFIX to consistently oversee all your crucial network devices. PRTG equips you with multiple SNMP sensors, enabling you to initiate your monitoring immediately.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
