Oliver, I would recommend a SIEM (security information and event management) which brings event, threat, and risk data together to provide strong security intelligence, rapid incident response, seamless log management, and extensible compliance reporting. Jacob Nganyi, P.O BOX 1235-00100, NAIROBI,KENYA. MOBILE: +254721391656 EMAIL: nganyi1@gmail.com SKYPE: Jacob.nganyi Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Oliver Ndegwa <olie.ndegwa@gmail.com> Date:02/04/2014 11:53 (GMT+03:00) To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Network Monitoring tool @Alex, for normal business network management.. Basically the usual things manage traffic, monitor traffic, prioritization, check status, monitor WAN.. etc.. Oliver On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote: What KPIs are you monitoring and for what type of elements? Commercial or FOSS? If commercial,  Solarwinds is a good option for enterprise otherwise Cacti, Nagios or Zabbix would serve you well. On 1 Apr 2014 10:08, "Oliver Ndegwa" <olie.ndegwa@gmail.com> wrote: Morning Guys, From your worthy experiences, which network monitoring and management tool would you recommend at this time and age for a corporate of about 600 to 800 users.. I know there are myriad options out there but there must be one that is affordable and that gets the job done right.. Thanking you in advance for your advice.. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke