Hi,
For Network Monitoring you may use any of the below applications:
HP-OpenView www.hp.com Propriety
Microsoft Operation Manager www.microsoft.com Propriety
Cacti www.cacti.net RRDTool
MRTG oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg RRDTool
PRTG www.paessler.com/prtg NetFlow/RRDTool
Adventnet OP Manager www.adventnet.com Propriety
Adventnet Netflow Analyzer www.adventnet.com Using Cisco NetFlow
SolarWinds Orion www.solarwinds.com Propriety
BigBrother www.bb4.com For Linux/Unix based machines
CiscoWorks www.cisco.com Best for Cisco devices
Observer www.networkinstruments.com
AutoNOC www.autonoc.com Propriety
ServerAlive www.woodstone.nu Propriety
SNMPc http://www.castlerock.com/
Traffic Sentinel www.inmon.com Sflow
WhatsupGold http://www.whatsupgold.com
AirMagnet http://www.airmagnet.com/p
CommView http://www.tamos.com/produ
SolarWinds NetFlow Analyzer www.solarwinds.com Netflow
Scrutinizer NetFlow/Sflow Analyzer www.plixer.com NetFlow/Sflow
NetXMS http://www.netxms.org/ Propriety
IBM Tivoli www.ibm.com Propriety
Open-Source
NAME URL TYPE
Ntop www.ntop.org LAMP based NMS with Windows port available
Bandwidthd bandwidthd.sourceforge.net
ZenOSS www.zenoss.com LAMP based NMS
Nagios www.nagios.org LAMP based NMS
JFFNMS www.jffnms.org LAMP based NMS
OpenNMS www.opennms.org LAMP based NMS
Zabbix www.zabbix.com LAMP based NMS
BigSister www.bigsister.ch For Linux/Unix based machines
Etherape etherape.sourceforge.net LAMP based NMS
GroundWork www.groundworkopensource.c
NAV metanav.uninett.no LAMP based NMS
Netdisco netdisco.org LAMP based NMS
ODCNMS www.odcnms.org LAMP based NMS
For Bandwidth Monitoring, you can use the below applications:
IPerf dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Ip
QCheck www.netiq.com/Qcheck/defau
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by: leewPosted on 2008-07-15 at 20:55:45ID: 22013187
You do realize that Terminal Services uses 30 Kbps per connection, give or take... so 10-12 is 300-360 Kbps... plus printing can saturate the line.
Now, you can install the Network monitor application on the Terminal Server and get a near exact picture of how much bandwidth it is using. If it's not your primarily culprit, then I'd also suggest checking your managed switch - you do have a managed switch and not some cheap "dumb" switch, right? If you check the managed switch you should be able to get an idea of what ports are the "busiest". Failing that, you can explore a tool like MRTG and enable SNMP on the workstations so you graph what system is using what kind of network bandwidth.
The problem is most network analysis software that can EASILY do what you want and present it in a nice interface will cost you significant money. The cheap methods, which I assume you're looking for, are going to be labor intensive.