Your business’ digital network is your most important operations-enablement asset. A network problem could bring mission-critical business applications to a grinding halt. Inaccessible websites, unusable ERP applications, excruciatingly slow loading application screens, the inability of one system to connect with and communicate with another – and the list goes on.

Network downtime costs you severely. Maintenance, hence, is not only better than cure, at least from a network management perspective, but also financially a much smarter option. To do so, network administrators need to measure the network’s performance regularly, in terms of important KPIs. These measures are compared to threshold values to detect possible issues or potential problems in the making. This is made possible by network monitoring tools. These tools keep a stern watch on the network performance, push real-time updates to administrators, and carry out automated tests on the network to detect and report anomalies.