What Does Network Monitoring Mean?
Network monitoring is a computer network’s systematic effort to detect slow or failing network components, such as overloaded or crashed/frozen servers, failing routers, failed switches or other problematic devices. In the event of a network failure or similar outage, the network monitoring system alerts the network administrator (NA). Network monitoring is a subset of network management.
Techopedia Explains Network Monitoring
While constantly monitoring the health/reliability of a network and searching for trends, the monitoring system tracks and logs network parameters. These include data transmission rate (throughput), error rates, downtime/uptime, use-time percentages, and response time to user and automated inputs and requests. When predetermined parameter thresholds are reached, alarms are triggered and network fault management processes are initiated.
