Hi Rakesh, We use a product by Solarwinds call Orion Network Performance Monitor. It not only does your switches/networks, but it also does workstations and servers. It can alert via email, txt message, or syslog when have issues such as: High network utilization High CPU or memory utilization Drive Space Utilization Power Supply availability Outages, such as workstation/server reboots or switch reboots/shutdowns With other add-ons you can even schedule backs of your switch configurations and do comparisons for recent changes. And all the data can be trended an put into reports, daily, monthly, weekly. It does a ton of stuff, and here is the link if you want to see a live demo: http://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?ViewKey=NPM%20Summary Roy Solis | Schneider Electric | Invensys | United States | Sr. Consultant, Cyber Security Consulting OSCP | GICSP | CISSP | CCNA | CCNA Security Mobile: 972 832 5742 Email: roy.solis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Address: www2.schneider-electric.com CISP Cyber Security Blog *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RAKESH DASH Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 5:50 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Monitoring Network Healthiness Hi List, Apart from alarms in system manager about port fail etc, is there any other way we can monitor the healthiness of network on a real time basis ? As you know that in a big plant, n/w healthiness becomes very critical, n i m trying to find a way. Third party tool would also do. Version used at site is IA8.5. Thanks in advance !! Rgds, Rakesh _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. ______________________________________________________________________ *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the Schneider-Electric Group. You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail reception@xxxxxxxxxxxx. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave