SilverBack InfoCare is low-cost IT monitoring software delivers information on faults, assets, performance and security across networks, systems and applications.

AG Group has network monitoring software for the Mac and Windows and offers downloadable demos. Some of their products include NetMeter for Mac, an SNMP based performance monitor for routers, hubs, or other devices, and EtherPeek for windows and mac, a real-time network device, protocol and filter traffic monitor that outputs statistics directly to HTML.

AccuGraph Corporation produces a network infrastructure management product that provides accurate data about available capacity. Unlike manual tracking which is common among the network planning and provisioning disciplines, our product provides a graphical end-to-end view of the network.

Bay Networks, Inc. Optivity Software provides solutions for the campus and enterprise environment by using a web-based network management approach. The OmniView[tm] application provides tabular and graphical views of network statistics for quick diagnostics and monitoring of network health collected from Bay Networks devices and industry-standard MIBs.

SPECTRUM, by Aprisma, is an integrated systems and network management platform. It simplifies and distributes network operations throughout an organization. Its distributed management with true client/server architecture provides unique levels of scalability and flexibility, while SPECTRUM's Inductive Modeling Technology allows for in-built event correlation, and a true understanding of relationships among network and systems entities.

Caravelle produces the MS Windows and Macintosh based network management applications Watcher and NetWORKS. The products use TCP to connect to a service port to make sure that the daemon is listening and answering.

Castle Rock Computing develops the Windows network management software, SNMPc. SNMPc is scalable to 25,000 devices, has distributed discovery and IP/IPX/SNMP polling, multiple LAN/remote console logins, traffic baselining and automatic alarms, scheduled printed and web reports, and derived MIB data including utilization and volume.

Network Health, by Concord Corporation is a family of web-based software applications that automate the collection, analysis and reporting of critical network data. Network Health discovers and collects vital data from existing devices in your network, condensing it into graphical presentations.

Empire Technologies, Inc. s a high-tech corporation that engineers, manufactures, and markets SNMP Systems Management agents and management station applications for HP/UX, Solaris, Solaris x86, SunOS, and WinNT.

Wind River produces and licenses highly portable implementations of IP, UDP, TCP, SNMP, BGP, OSPF, and a www management environment. Their product, Envoy, implements SNMP versions 1 and 2 and s independent of the transport protocol or transport API (that is, it will work on sockets, streams, IP/UDP, X.25, IPX, or whatever else you want to run SNMP over). Envoy needs memory allocation and a connection to an appropriate transport. If you're using SNMPv2 Envoy uses hooks to stable storage for the v2 administrative database. Envoy can be used either for building an SNMP agent or manager.

Groupe Bull develops the ISM TransMaster, which manages multiple networks using a mix of protocols (SNMP, CMIP, DSAC, VTAM) and masks the complexity of multivendor, multiprotocol networks. The physical elements are seen thought a common interface.

Harris Network Management is an SNMP/CMIP based network management tool that has multi-vendor and multi-protocol components are integrated into a single graphical display, continually updated graphical network representations, fully integrated LAN and WAN scripting through simplified asynchronous scripting, TMN compliant infrastructure, central or site distributed management, on demand performance reports, configuration management, redundancy with HNM database synchronization, and interoperability with CheetahNet products to allow telecommunications and cable network management and control.

Orbit TMN Toolkit, by ISR Global Telecom, provides a set of development tools to create TMN compliant Managers and Agents which utilize a Management Information Base (MIB) to control your network. Orbit's tools generate the runtime ObjectEngine upon which developers can create applications that support element and network management functions.

The CMU SNMP Library rovides developers with a set of core functions allowing them to write SNMP agents and managers. The library will encode and decode all SNMP PDUs and variables; handle network connections; and return data in an easily parsable format.

Scotty is a set of Tcl extensions for network managment applications. It allows one to implement site-specific net management using high-level, string-based APIs

MRTG, the Multi Router Traffic Grapher, is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. MRTG is available under the GNU General Public License.

LINMOR Information Systems Management, Inc. develops the NEBULA product line, which includes NEBULA-ICC, NEBULA-ATM, NEBULA-NMS, NEBULA-SNMS, NEBULA Performance Monitor, and NEBULA MIB Explorer. The NEBULA set of tools offers autodiscovery, realtime graphical reporting, multi-vendor MIB support, management policies for any ATM product or feature that can be defined without the need for programming, an ATM-specific, web-based reporting and plotting capability, authenticated and encrypted network traffic, confining SNMP traffic to secure domains, protection against IP spoofing, replaying, and capturing, and user ID and application access restriction on nodes.

Onion Peel Software develops Openview add on products such as the Amerigo map builder and administrator, the Network Data Collector compilation of data collection and reporting tool for generating production and ad-hoc reporting, the ROVE access to Openview information from palmtops, portable PCs and dumb terminals, and the RoboMap map customization saver and manipulator.

Peripheral Technology Group, Inc. is a distributor of network management products such as Network Instruments' Observer and Analyst/Probe as well as Triticom's line of network management products.

Unicenter TNG provides a single point of control for administering virtually every hardware, software and non-IT critical resource regardless of vendor. CA's end-to-end management capabilities optimize system availability, improve overall performance, and even predict when system outages may occur. Unicenter TNG is made up of six components: Unicenter TNG Framework, Unicenter TNG Base, Enterprise Management, Neugents Capabilities, SDK, and Real World Management.

Tivoli is a commercial product available for AT&T SVR4, DG-UX, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Motorola SVR4, Solaris, SunOS, and Windows NT. Tivoli installs its own set of agents on the client machines and uses shell and exec services to relay information back to the Tivoli master. Tivoli uses one port for all of its communication and and speaks in its own ``language.'' The information about an event is transmitted back to the master Tivoli database where notification can be done via mail or a pager.

The Advanced Portable SNMP Agent, by DMH Software supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3. The product includes SMIv2 MIB-Compiler to simplify the support of new MIB objects, with full support for MIB-II and other standard MIBS. USM Support includes: MD5, SHA authentication, CBC-DES encryption, and usmUserTable for remote configuration.

Network Management Survival Guide A must-have reference guide for anyone who thinks, writes or decides about the fate of a network.

SNMP Research International, Inc. is a leading vendor of SNMP technology to the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and developer community. They have the comp.protocols.snmp FAQ in HTML format as well as an FAQ about the EMANATE Run-Time Extensible Agent System.

The SNMP FAQ gives a basic overview of SNMP, gives pointers to books, classes, and other references, explains MIBs and where to get them, and has pointers to free SNMP software.

Network Management, from the University of Buffalo, includes the archive for the comp.dcom.net-management news group as well as a listing of network product vendors, white papers and articles, a networking glossary, and much much more.

Solstice Enterprise Agents technology and Developer's Toolkit provides an open, extensible, standards based solution that facilitates effective management of both network elements and computer subsystem components. It supports both the SNMP and DMI protocols enabling an integrated management solution utilizing existing SNMP management applications.

The USEC Resource Page provides information about the status of the User-based Security Model (USEC, aka SNMPv2u), which adds strong security and a no-frills administrative infrastructure to the SNMPv2 framework.

IETF Operations and Management Area has a number of working groups dealing with network management, including: Bridge MIB (bridge), Distributed Management (disman), Entity MIB (entmib), IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB (hubmib), Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib), Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement (rtfm), Remote Network Monitoring (rmonmib), SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx), SNMP Version 3 (snmpv3), and many more.

This listing of IETF Network Management RFCs is sorted by number, topic, working group, and IETF status. This page also contains a list of MIB modules, list of object types, list of textual conversions, list of traps and notifications, and a search for RFCs by regular expression.

The ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. ITU activities include the coordination, development, regulation and standardization of telecommunications and organization of regional and world telecom events. The ITU leads the TMN Roadmap initiative and has all of the TMN recommendations on line.

Network Management Resource Database provides links to community based SNMPv2 RFCs, HTTP MIB standardization documentation, and software available on the net.

The Network Management Resources page was established to provide a comprehensive link to the latest developments in network management products, technology and standards. This web page is dedicated to the LAN/WAN administrator and the quest for a proactively managed network.

The Ganymede Software site has various application management products as well as offering white papers if you sign up with them.