Identifying Important Network Components to Monitor
In addition to monitoring a system and its components, it is critical to monitor the networks connecting the system to the end-users. Without connectivity to end-users and adequate performance, the service provided by a system is useless. This chapter shows how to monitor all aspects of your networked environment.
Networking is a broad category and it can be broken down into a variety of components. These network components are shown in Figure 6-1. The client in this picture is the end-user connecting to the corporate network from the user's desktop computer, and the server is the UNIX computer system, providing access to the corporate databases, performing network services such as Network File ...
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