software monitor network traffic

We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic (such as an
internet bandwidth usage on a particular machines/machine) on all the
segments and not just the segment where the software is running on?
We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or the
switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and its client
software deployed out to the computers if needed.

Thanks

study <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
> Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic (such
> as an internet bandwidth usage on a particular machines/machine) on
> all the segments and not just the segment where the software is
> running on?
> We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or the
> switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and its
> client software deployed out to the computers if needed.
>
> Thanks

Unless you're running ISA or similar, your servers won't know anything about
the network traffic; they're just nodes, like the workstations are. And
installing agents on the workstations would be a nightmare to manage, seems
to me. Who manages the routers/network equipment? Are you allowed to install
anything on the network?

Another team manages the networking and we manage the systems.
So I was looking for a server to node type of a software that can function
without access to the routers or switches.
Yes we can install anything besides the networking equipments.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> study <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
> > Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic (such
> > as an internet bandwidth usage on a particular machines/machine) on
> > all the segments and not just the segment where the software is
> > running on?
> > We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or the
> > switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and its
> > client software deployed out to the computers if needed.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Unless you're running ISA or similar, your servers won't know anything about
> the network traffic; they're just nodes, like the workstations are. And
> installing agents on the workstations would be a nightmare to manage, seems
> to me. Who manages the routers/network equipment? Are you allowed to install
> anything on the network?
>
>
>

study <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Another team manages the networking and we manage the systems.
> So I was looking for a server to node type of a software that can
> function without access to the routers or switches.
> Yes we can install anything besides the networking equipments.

You'd need to install something in-line if you wanted to capture this data -
such as ISA. This isn't my area of expertise by any means, so I can't give
you much more info.

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> study <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
>>> Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic
>>> (such as an internet bandwidth usage on a particular
>>> machines/machine) on all the segments and not just the segment
>>> where the software is running on?
>>> We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or
>>> the switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and
>>> its client software deployed out to the computers if needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Unless you're running ISA or similar, your servers won't know
>> anything about the network traffic; they're just nodes, like the
>> workstations are. And installing agents on the workstations would be
>> a nightmare to manage, seems to me. Who manages the routers/network
>> equipment? Are you allowed to install anything on the network?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc776379.aspx

"The Windows Server 2003 SNMP service provides only the SNMP agent. Unless
you develop your own SNMP management application, you must install
third-party SNMP management software, such as HP Openview, Novell NMS, IBM
NetView, or Sun Net Manager to work with the SNMP agent. You can install
third-party SNMP management software on one or more hosts.
Alternatively, you can develop your own SNMP management software application
by using the two application programming interfaces (APIs) that Windows
Server 2003 provides:

WinSNMP API (Wsnmp32.dll) provides a set of functions for encoding,
decoding, sending, and receiving SNMP messages.

Management API (Mgmtapi.dll) provides a basic set of functions for
developing fast and simple SNMP management systems. "

The MS documentation says you need to have XP or 2003, that's just because
they don't sell Win 98 anymore, but it means there is no documentation for
earlier versions.

The snmp agent on the client machine lets you look at all the network
performance counters. If you want to do it by hand, all of the information
is available using WMI or
NET STATS

I 'm sure that MS also has a SNMP management application, but I can't
remember the name of it.

(david)


"study" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2A6E0976-FC14-4D1F-9378-(E-Mail Removed)...
> We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
> Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic (such as
> an
> internet bandwidth usage on a particular machines/machine) on all the
> segments and not just the segment where the software is running on?
> We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or the
> switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and its client
> software deployed out to the computers if needed.
>
> Thanks

MS operations manager.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcente...s/default.aspx

(david)


"david" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc776379.aspx
>
> "The Windows Server 2003 SNMP service provides only the SNMP agent. Unless
> you develop your own SNMP management application, you must install
> third-party SNMP management software, such as HP Openview, Novell NMS, IBM
> NetView, or Sun Net Manager to work with the SNMP agent. You can install
> third-party SNMP management software on one or more hosts.
> Alternatively, you can develop your own SNMP management software
> application by using the two application programming interfaces (APIs)
> that Windows Server 2003 provides:
>
> WinSNMP API (Wsnmp32.dll) provides a set of functions for encoding,
> decoding, sending, and receiving SNMP messages.
>
> Management API (Mgmtapi.dll) provides a basic set of functions for
> developing fast and simple SNMP management systems. "
>
> The MS documentation says you need to have XP or 2003, that's just because
> they don't sell Win 98 anymore, but it means there is no documentation for
> earlier versions.
>
> The snmp agent on the client machine lets you look at all the network
> performance counters. If you want to do it by hand, all of the information
> is available using WMI or
> NET STATS
>
> I 'm sure that MS also has a SNMP management application, but I can't
> remember the name of it.
>
> (david)
>
>
> "study" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2A6E0976-FC14-4D1F-9378-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> We have hundreds of computers spread across a muitiple subnets.
>> Is there a good software that can monitor their network traffic (such as
>> an
>> internet bandwidth usage on a particular machines/machine) on all the
>> segments and not just the segment where the software is running on?
>> We do not manage the networking equiptments such as the router or the
>> switches so the software needs to be installed on a server and its client
>> software deployed out to the computers if needed.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>