ISPPlanet • Budget Network Management System Series - Wrap-Up

Reporting
In addition to real-time graphs, ipMonitor, NetInspector, WhatsUp Gold, and SNMPc provide on-demand and scheduled report generation features.

Vendor	ACE*COMM	MediaHouse	SNMP ToolChest Company	MG-SOFT	Ipswitch	Castle Rock Computing
Product	NetPlus AutoManage	ipMonitor	SNMP ToolChest	MIB Browser NetInspector LITE	WhatsUp Gold	SNMPc
Real-Time Graphs	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Statistics Reports	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Scheduled Reports	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stores or Exports Data for 3rd Party	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

 

ipMonitor (below) offers highly customizable service-level reports—for example, document aggregate and individual availability and response time for web server cluster last month.

 

WhatsUp Gold uses Crystal Reports to produce comprehensive network/device-level statistic reports.

SNMPc collects trend data for built-in report types like Interface Health and Web Response Time. To give you a feel for the reports generated by each, we have included samples here.

The tricky thing about report generation is that it is impossible to please everyone, all the time. For this reason, the ability to export raw or summary data for use by third party software is highly desirable. We found data export features in four of these products.

Pt. 1: Introduction / What We Tested	Pt. 5: Device Control
Pt. 2: Installation & Setup	Pt. 6: Network Montoring & Alerts <
Pt. 3: Network Discovery	Pt. 7: Reporting
Pt. 4: SNMP Browse and Query	> Pt. 8: Product Support / Overall Evaluation