Network monitoring software (NMS) is useful to increase productivity and security of business networks without increasing the workload. Few features of NMS include: monitoring the device on the network, gathering information and metrics on various devices, identifying traffic, analyzing performance, minimizing the threats related to security and alerting if any problem arises. This allows to focus more on building of network and managing the business. Freeware tools and open source software are two ways to get free network monitoring software.  Few network monitoring tools are solarwinds, ntopng, cacti, icinga, nagios core, zabbix, etc. 

On using network monitoring tools, businesses will improve their productivity and security and thus will be able to expand their networks efficiently.

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