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The system administrator should monitor the network bandwidth and traffic usage on local network in order to use the enterprise resources efficiently.



A good company?s boss should be always aware of how many resources his company uses, how many funds are spent, what are the current expenses on electricity, telephony Cheap Mike Condon Hat , and other resources. In the last 10 or 15 years, one more important expense item was added: a modern company?s operation is impossible without a connection to the Internet. To know how much you have to pay for it, firstly you need to know, how much traffic is utilized on your network if your Internet connection is not unlimited. That is why the system administrator should monitor the network bandwidth and traffic usage on local network in order to use the enterprise resources efficiently.


Even Cheap Mark Stone Hat , if the organization is provided with the unlimited traffic package, the bandwidth monitoring is still vital. For instance, the bandwidth can be lower than the necessary limit, and there are a lot of reasons for that: employees can use traffic for personal affairs and download movies or music from the Internet Cheap Derick Brassard Hat , network interfaces can go down, and so on. All these problems lead to your company operating non-effectively, losing your profits and increasing expenses.


There are a few ways of gathering the bandwidth and traffic usage data:


1. Using the SNMP protocol (Simple Network Management Protocol). This method does not require the installation of any additional programs on remote computers. And this is the main advantage of this method. The bandwidth monitoring program is to be installed on the system administrator?s PC only. The only thing he has to do is to set up the SNMP protocol properly which does not usually take a lot of time. The SNMP protocol allows you to count the local network or Internet traffic volume not only on computers with Windows or Linux OS, but on switches Cheap Erik Karlsson Hat , routers, network printers and other network devices as well. Thus, the system administrator is able to monitor the utilized network and Internet traffic volume and look after the normal operation of all the network hardware.


2. Alternatively, the system administrator can use WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) for bandwidth monitoring