As networks evolve and become more complex, companies need to monitor their network infrastructures more than ever because even minor system outages can result in significant losses. Network monitoring tools offer both real-time data and graphical overviews of the network's status. This enables you to accurately picture what is happening so you know where changes are required. For homogeneous networks such as Microsoft networks, it is particularly critical to monitor the networks, systems, and services to ensure all components are performing optimally.
Challenges in Microsoft network monitoring tool
The increasing complexity of network environments presents significant challenges for efficient network monitoring. This should not be surprising as different network devices, systems, and services might be included in such environments. In a homogeneous network, network admins face numerous challenges in their everyday monitoring operations, including maintaining visibility into the network, performance detection, and root cause analysis.
Maintaining visibility into the network: Enterprises run many applications, such as Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Exchange Server, daily. Any failure in these applications might have severe effects on daily business activities. The network IT teams must have comprehensive insight into each connected device so they can resolve the issue before the failure affects other devices.
Performance monitoring and root cause analysis: Dashboards show performance insights, such as network availability, top running applications and their usage, and CPU usage, to help network administrators discover network issues quickly. Networking teams need real-time alerts to detect the root cause of issues, solve problems, and recommend upgrades.
Proactive monitoring: Checking your Microsoft network's availability and resources is the quickest way to verify its performance. Proactive monitoring of availability and uptime guarantees that you have a backup plan in place if the server or connection cannot be made operational in a given time.
OpManager: Microsoft network monitoring software
With the help of ManageEngine OpManager, network administrators can understand network behavior, including application and network use, network abnormalities, and security vulnerabilities. It helps in providing an overview of the availability of the network devices and Windows servers in your Microsoft infrastructure and monitoring each Windows service and process. It regularly checks your Microsoft server environment using WMI protocol to guarantee optimal performance.
Monitor devices performance with OpManager's Microsoft network monitor
With over 1,000 KPIs spanning over 200 physical and virtual device types, including routers, switches, servers, and Hyper-V VMs, OpManager enables end-to-end monitoring of Microsoft network environments with the help of its adaptive, AI-based thresholds. Its informative reports enable you to proactively identify and evaluate performance bottlenecks as well as increase the efficiency of your network equipment.
Monitor Exchange server, SQL server with Microsoft network monitor
For Microsoft applications like Exchange Server and SQL Server, Windows servers provide a backbone. It is therefore vital to ensure that the servers, the server hosting program, and the connection between the servers are all error-free. OpManager uses WMI protocol to monitor your Windows servers and offer deeper visibility into crucial server metrics. To proactively handle issues in your Windows server environment, OpManager's Microsoft network monitor monitors KPIs such as memory, CPU, and disk usage.
Scrutinize Hyper-V VMs with Microsoft network monitor
OpManager's VM monitoring features monitor Hyper-V and associated guest VMs. The dedicated Hyper-V management tools provide the necessary full visibility for managing your Hyper-V virtual infrastructure. It enables you to quickly assess the current state of all your hosts and VMs. With OpManager's Microsoft network monitor, you can monitor Hyper-V peformance metrics such as disk utilization, disk write and read speed, partition details of the device, avaerage disk latency, and network usage.
Keep a track of Windows services with Microsoft network monitoring
OpManager's Windows service monitoring tool enables you to monitor Windows services locally or across numerous servers in your network. It monitors Windows services through WMI and does not require the installation of an agent on any remote computer. With OpManager's Microsoft network monitor, you can monitor wide range of Windows services including Print Spooler, DHCP server, FTP, MySQL, RPC, NetLogon, Alerter, Telnet and much more.
Analyze Windows process performance with Microsoft network monitor
OpManager's Microsoft network monitor scrutinizes and analyzes the performance of a wide range of Windows processes, including Client Server Runtime Process, Registry, Security Authority Host, and Service Host. Using OpManager's multi-level threshold-based alerting, you can get alerts on possible problems and monitor process health, availability, and performance.
Keep a log of Windows events with Microsoft network monitor
As an integrated network, server, and application management solution, OpManager allows you to monitor Windows event logs. This includes crucial security logs, application logs, and system logs across all Windows servers and workstations in your network.
Leverage intelligent fault management and alerting with OpManager's Microsoft network monitor
As a Microsoft network monitor, OpManager notifies you instantly if any of your Windows devices go down. You can configure notification profiles to send you alarms by email, text message, or Slack. This accelerates the troubleshooting process and reduces downtime.
Create simple and advanced reports with Microsoft network monitor
OpManager's Microsoft network monitor provides an easy-to-use interface with over 100 built-in reporting profiles, all of which are logically organized as server reports, device reports, service reports, and more. You can also create a new report with the Advanced report option simply by defining the necessary criteria.
FAQs on Microsoft network monitoring
What is Microsoft network monitor used for?
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Microsoft network monitor helps you provide an overview of the availability of Windows servers and other devices in your Microsoft network environment. You can also keep a check on Windows services and processes and ensure smooth functioning of your entire Windows network.
How do I use a network monitor in Windows?
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The Microsoft network monitor such as OpManager uses WMI protocol to monitor the Windows network devices. You can gain in-depth visibility into critical Windows server metrics such as memory, CPU, and disk usage with OpManager's network monitor. You can also configure it to be alerted when Windows devices go down and reduce the MTTR.
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