Section 2.5 - Network Monitoring

A systematic effort to detect slow or failing network components.

• trouble shooting

• Network Monitoring

• surfing

• spuffing

A utility that captures or records frames transmitted on a network.

• monitoring

• Load Tester

• Throughput Tester

• Packet Sniffer

Network protocols are Formal standards and policies comprised of rules, procedures, and formats that define communication between two or more devices over a network.

• True

• False

_ is a utility that measures the amount of data that can be transferred through a network or processed by a device.

___are computers that send the most data, either from your network or into your network.

• Top talkers

• Top Listeners

• Network Monitors

• Senders

The goal of monitoring is ....

• keep track of conditions

• pinpoint the source of problems

• identify situations that might signal potential problems

• locate areas of your network that might need to be upgraded or modified

• All of the above

Which of these is not a tool mentioned in the lesson for checking the health of your network:

• Load tester

• logs

• throughput tester

• Packet handler

Which of these are command line tools used to help determine the condition of your network. (Check all that apply)

• tracert

• dump

• ping

• config

The netstat utility can read and write data across both TCP and UDP network connections.

• True

• False

In this section you were taught to view

• problem logs

• event logs

• data files

• log files