Network Administrator's Toolkit

This is a Network management tools kit designed for the corporate network administration. It consists of the two components that will monitor your corporate servers availability and performance and inventory user workstations.

Pros: The application is actually a collection of two components that helps manage a corporate network. The two components are the server monitor and the inventory manager for network resources. The inventory component takes inventory of assets available on the company work-stations. The first toolkit component, Asset Tracker for Networks, is a network inventory tool intended to audit software and hardware components installed on the computers over the network. This asset management tool will collect your network inventory information, provide the Network Administrator with the detailed comprehensive reports and allow you to export assets details to external storages, such as SQL database or web site. The left part of the user interaction area is a explorer like tree of all the workstations. Possible information that can be collected include general information, processor and memory details, environmental variables, BIOS related details and winsock. Peripherals related information such as details of disk, printers, database engines, user accounts and so on.

The second component, Alchemy Eye is a system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager before problems get seriously out of hand. This helps protect your company`s data and reduces the likelihood of costly network failures. If a server goes down, Alchemy Eye automatically notifies the network administrator and writes a detailed log file. This applies to all servers, application/file servers as well as database servers, switches, router etc so that a comprehensive view of the network is possible.

Cons: Back up management is a vital part of network management usually. This application does not have any component that takes care of such activities. With database servers there’s another issue which is critical that of replication to avoid disasters. It’s be nice to have some features that mange the on-site or off-site replication.

Overall this application rates a 3 star category.

A set of the network management tools designed for the corporate network administration. This toolkit consists of the two components that will monitor your corporate servers availability and performance and inventory user workstations