Evaluation of a network monitoring tool, with emphasis on the verification of active equipment connection with ICMP protocol.

Abstract

The network infrastructure is always growing, which demands the expansion of services causing more traffic on the active equipment, resulting in failures or degradation in the service connection to the network. This article presents the study of the Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server (NEMS) as part of a methodology and network monitoring tool for the administrative management of the active equipment and links of the same. The study includes a review of the tool vs. commercial and open source monitoring tools, its architecture, taxonomy, properties and monitoring protocols with an emphasis on ICMP.