ng software developer, Ipswitch: "Companies would rather not get any false readings from their monitoring systems. But, if they do get a false reading, which happens from time to time, they would rather get false www.TechnicalPDF.com positives than false negatives. With a false negative, an outage is ignored and thus not resolved." Charts and Graphs As indicated in Figure 2-8, charts and graphs provide visual "pictures" of the health of the local network. They further indicate congestion on ports within switches and routers. Moreover, monthly summaries are available indicating, for example, total percentage of time the network was up. This is especially important to IT and corporate management because outages negatively impact productivity, and may slow the time to market of new and upgraded products. Disk/CPU/Memory Monitoring Virtualization Virtualization Current Monitor Durati... 11 days A l Down Interaces Interface Last Poll No records found Monitor Name Monitor Ty www.TechnicalPDF.com Interface(4124-100(127.. 8minut. 1721681.98 Monitor 1 hour 172.16.81.98 Active Monitor Interface(4227666)-Etter. Unknown 8 days Interface(4227674-Etter Unknown 8days TalofSateChangelog content here. SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol transports pings. SSID: Service Set Identifier: Acts as a password identifying Wi-Fi devices Gigabit Ether: Gigabit speed switches connected to the LAN Eth: Ethernet devices on the LAN BRO: A specialized broadband connection Figure 2-8 A graphic indicating the status of LAN gear. (Screenshot of Ipswitch © 2018 Ipswitch Corporation) LAN Monitoring Software in the Cloud Monitoring software located in the cloud is able to access customers' networks by using agent software called a collector connected to firewalls. The collector polls gear such as servers, switches, and router ports on the local www.TechnicalPDF.com network and sends the results back to the cloud-based software. For providers of monitoring software, cloud- based systems have the benefits of faster set-up for each customer. This i