Network monitoring is a common IT term that has a broad implication. Network monitoring can refer to the practice, techniques, and tools used to provide insight into the status of a network. These techniques are used to monitor the availability and performance of networked systems and troubleshoot problems.
Some reasons you may want to practice network monitoring include the following:
- To detect the reachability of networked systems
- To measure the availability of networked systems
- To determine the performance of networked systems
- To inform decisions about network resource allocation
- To aid in troubleshooting
- To benchmark performance
- To reverse engineer a protocol
- To debug a program
In this chapter, we look at a small subset of conventional network monitoring techniques that may be useful when implementing networked programs.
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