What Does Intermapper Network Monitoring Software Do?
Map and monitor your entire distributed IT environment with powerful, user-friendly software
Map Your Network
Intermapper's network monitoring software helps you create a network map, giving you a live view of what's happening on your network. Color-coded statuses tell you what's up and what's down. A variety of map layout options and icon choices help bring your unique IT environment to life.
Maximize Uptime
When there's trouble, Intermapper sends you real-time alerts via text, email, sound, and more. You'll be able to find and fix technology issues before users or customers are impacted.
Troubleshoot Issues Faster
Spot problems across your distributed environment in seconds (not hours). You and your IT team will save time, reduce frustration, and keep customers and users happy.
Features of Intermapper Network Monitoring Software
Automatic network mapping
Automatically discover and document every IP-enabled device in your network within minutes with network mapping software from Intermapper. Customize the look of your map with hundreds of icons and background options. You can also create hierarchical maps and sub-maps to show certain network areas, such as a floor of a building, classroom, or closet.
Plus, users can export maps to Microsoft Visio and .SVG format.
Proactive network monitoring
Intermapper monitors all your devices, interfaces, servers, and applications 24/7 by using SNMP and other protocols to continuously poll their current status. As your network map updates in real time, color-coded icons give you an at-a-glance view for easy network performance monitoring.
Robust network management
Analyze reports, manage condition acknowledgements, and update alert settings to ensure optimal network health. With Intermapper's network management tools, IT professionals can manage the network from an intuitive interface and quickly access the data you need to solve issues and make decisions. Manage your network from whatever platform you choose with network monitoring tools for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Smart alerting
Don’t ever miss a critical network event. Flexible notifications alert your team when performance thresholds have been exceeded. Choose from a variety of alert options, including sounds, emails, text messages, and more. Customize the schedule, assign to a specific group, and set up escalation to ensure a response.
Network capacity planning
As your network grows, Intermapper's network monitoring solution helps you analyze trends and maintain a healthy network both now and in the future. Review historic metrics, strip charts, and reports to help maximize capacity planning efforts so your network infrastructure is sure to support traffic levels of any size.
AWS monitoring
Intermapper's network monitoring solution can hook into AWS, allowing you to extract performance monitoring data from that platform and import it into the network monitoring program. All you have to do is add your EC2 instances to Intermapper and you can begin tracking key performance metrics from there.
Discover network devices and conduct efficiency monitoring
Intermapper’s automatic device discovery feature helps ensure that your network inventory is always up-to-date and that no network devices are left unaccounted for. Intermapper’s auto discovery feature also lightens the load on IT by eliminating the tedious tasks associated with manually accounting for and mapping all existing and new devices.
Once your network inventory has been established, Intermapper's network monitoring solution executes across all of your devices continuously, providing insights into performance metrics for autonomous access points, wireless controllers, clients, and more. With Intermapper’s real-time, high speed alerting and polling, you can be made instantly aware of any network issues or performance concerns occurring within your network.
Tailored metrics and features for enhanced analysis and monitoring
Although Intermapper’s network monitoring program provides robust default settings, it also offers extensive customization to meet your team’s unique needs. Effortlessly monitor and analyze the metrics that matter most to your network. You can configure Intermapper’s smart alerting feature to deploy notifications based on thresholds tailored to your liking.
Intermapper’s customizable probes allow you to monitor anything on your network, including environmental sensors, facilities systems, industrial equipment, and more. For advanced analysis, you can use Intermapper’s comprehensive, web-based reports module to easily view the information vital to your network’s health and personalize your network maps and other reporting features.
Added security with reverse proxy/SSO integrations
There are a number of ways in which Intermapper can be modified for a more secure customer experience. First, customers can add Intermapper to their load balancing solution. The load balancer acts as a reverse proxy and creates additional separation from Intermapper and customers’ networks so that end users or potential attackers cannot gain access to the solution’s data or disrupt its service.
To make this reverse proxy even more effective, Intermapper can be configured to require multifactor authentication. This way, you can feel confident that the users that accessing Intermapper are exactly who they say they are. Intermapper can also be integrated with various SSO solutions so that MFA and other additional security measures do not impact productivity. Overall, Intermapper is a highly adaptable solution that can easily conform to the need for enhanced security within an organization.
Recognized as a High Performer on G2 for Network Monitoring
Intermapper is ranked highly in the network monitoring category for overall features, ease of use, and product support. See what else our users had to say when you read the reviews.
Add-on Capabilities of Intermapper's Network Monitoring Service
Get Visibility Into Network Traffic
Troubleshoot bandwidth issues with Intermapper Flows. This network traffic monitoring tool allows you to collect and analyze NetFlow sFlow, and jFlow data in real time.
Powerful and accurate, Intermapper helps you easily pinpoint bandwidth hogs, identify trends, and plan for future capacity needs.
Monitor Your Network from Anywhere
Working from home? Intermapper Remote Access gives you secure access to the Intermapper server from anywhere. Create maps, acknowledge alarms, and view reports from a remote machine.
Remote network monitoring software helps your team monitor network equipment effectively no matter where you (or your devices) are located. It's especially helpful or IT consultants, organizations with multiple offices, or managed service providers.
Fix Issues Fast with a Network Monitoring Solution
Free yourself from manual network remediation. A network monitoring and automation tool can help you ensure a rapid response to network events—without having to get anyone involved.
Low on resources and time? With the ability to trigger commands in response to Intermapper alerts, you can cut your remediation time from hours to minutes, so your IT team can be free to focus on other important initiatives.
10 Ways Intermapper Solves Network Monitoring Challenges for Real Organizations
Download The Intermapper Use Case Guide to learn how organizations across a variety of industries and sizes rely on Intermapper to gain a complete view of their network infrastructure.
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Network Monitoring Software for All Industries
Having an efficient and effective network monitoring tools for Windows, AIX, Linux, or IBM i is a necessity for any organization that relies on consistent network performance from their digital devices. This means that organizations from all industries – from tech to education – should strongly consider implementing Intermapper’s versatile and dependable network monitoring service. Select your industry below to learn more about why a network monitoring program is a necessity for your organization and how Intermapper can help.
Network Monitoring Software FAQs
What is network monitoring?
Network monitoring involves the continuous surveilling of computer networks to detect issues like slow traffic or component failure as well as alerting administrators to these issues to prevent disruptions and prolonged downtime.
Why is network monitoring important?
Its primary use is for pointing out potential performance issues and bottlenecks before they happen. Human error and configuration issues typically go hand in hand, and commonly result in minor performance issues that snowball and result in network outages and disruptions. A lack of network visibility is another dangerous side effect that comes with an absence of network monitoring. A survey by Forrester indicated that 81% of IT leaders believe network visibility is essential for strong network security and response.
How does network monitoring software work?
Network monitoring software works by sending requests and queries to network devices and assets and then reporting the results. Every NMS uses a different way of querying devices, but regardless of whether that’s Ping, ICMP, or SNMP, all communications are protocol based. When querying devices, the NMS requests information using management information base (MIBS) or object identifiers (OID) in order to retrieve distinct metrics that support performance data. The NMS then presents this information via the software’s interface.
How can network monitoring tools help optimize networks and troubleshoot issues?
The key to optimizing any network is first establishing performance baselines. This is instrumental in determining what protocols or infrastructure to adjust to keep performance at an optimal level. Understanding behaviors of devices and making sure they’re not hitting certain thresholds or alarms helps the operator maximize that information and get a better idea of where the network needs to be.
Regarding troubleshooting, whether you're dealing with a configuration error or an abnormal traffic fluctuation, network monitoring software helps you get to the bottom of issues quickly. Live network maps lead you to the origin of problems, and status windows give you performance metrics over time. Also, network automation tools help you go one step further. Not only can you identify problems via network monitoring, but you can fix them automatically, without having to get a person involved.
What types of network devices can Intermapper find and monitor?
Intermapper can monitor any device that supports IP technology and is currently broadcasting. Intermapper sends out requests and queries based on IP technology, so if the device does in fact support IP technology, then Intermapper will be able to find, map, and monitor it.
How can I get started with Intermapper? What are its licensing models?
Downloading a free trial of Intermapper is the first place that most people get started. Deploying Intermapper’s free trial is a very easy and intuitive process that takes just minutes and essentially only requires you to identify the IP addresses that you would like to monitor. From there, you can make modifications based on your preferences, ideal baselines, and what you would like to measure specifically. If you do decide you would like to purchase an Intermapper license, you will be able to keep everything that you’ve done in the trial version.
Intermapper’s licensing structure is much different from other monitoring solutions in that it is straightforward and based on the number of IP’s you want to monitor rather than the amount of functions and sensors you would like to have available to you.