Monitoring network

AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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hi all,

I am looking after a network at the moment for work:

3 locations. one is 20 miles away, head office and the second office are a 4-minute walk apart.

Mixture of wifi and wired. Headoffice wired and wifi are seperate.

I've got some issues where some employee's are reporting slow and intermitant internet issuess.

is there anyway I can either install something on the problem PC's or to monitor the network directly that would allow me to pinpoint any issues.

This is all brand new to me, on this level. A simple home network just isn't the same thing.

We've a Draytek Vigor 3900 dashboard for the head office I can login to but it means nothing to me.

Any online courses worth taking?
 
The two main technologies to use are SNMP (which is typically used for interface statistics) and NetFlow (which allows you to track flows/streams of packets between hosts and interfaces).

Lots of tools out there. Cacti. MRTG. NetFlow Analyzer (freebie available). Spiceworks / Solarwinds as above. etc.

There probably are some host-install options but i've not come across any myself. You can also monitor a PC using SNMP but in practise hardly anyone would do that.
 
thanks for the suggestions.

I actually get no tech issues from the 20 mile away office.

The issues all seem to be internal traffic and internal > internet traffic. A lot of our systems use online and browser based resources.
 
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