Easy IP calculations for network administrators

Monitis Inc., a leading provider of affordable cloud-based performance management solutions, launched three free online network calculators. The calculators will help network administrators easily calculate subnet and routing IP addresses and network masks.

The IP Subnet Calculator helps the network administrator to find the Wildcard Mask, Broadcast address, Subnet ID, Hex IP, Subnet Bitmap and host address range. The user enters the IP address, Subnet Mask, Network class, Mask Bits, Hosts per Subnet and maximum Subnets and the result is shown within seconds. The network and subnet parts are separated from the host address that results in Network address and host identifier.

The Wildcard Mask calculator calculates First address and Last address. It is inverted form of subnet mask and is used as an extension of IP address. This calculator can be used in simple Access Control List (ACL) wildcard mask calculations. The Wild Card Mask allows passage to data from the IP address and its associated mask range. The user just has to enter the IP address and select the Wildcard Mask.

The CIDR (Classless Inter Domain Routing) calculator allocates IP addresses and routing Internet Protocol packets. It helps to find Wildcard Mask, range of usable IPs, Broadcast address and CIDR Network using the IP address, the maximum number of addresses, Subnets and CIDR Netmask. The user simply enters the IP address, chooses the maximum number of addresses, Subnets, Mask Bits and CIDR Netmask and gets Wildcard Mask, range of usable IPs, Broadcast address and CIDR Network.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading, comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform. It monitors, collects, and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices, providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health. Monitis also has open-source plug-ins and powerful APIs which allow users to extend and integrate its powerful monitoring and management capabilities into their current systems. Monitis provides reliable, quality services to customers worldwide.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solutions. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve the productivity of their IT staff, and reduce operational expenditures. Monitis is radically changing the system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, SaaS-based, and flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud) solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

Monitis Cloud: 6-in-1 Monitoring Platform

Monitis: All-in-One Systems Monitoring from the Cloud

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Monitis: All-in-One Systems Monitoring from the Cloud - Presentation Transcript

1. Monitis Cloud: 6-in-1 Systems Monitoring Software as a Service
2. is my site up?

3. #1: External Monitor website, fileserver, mail server, VoIP, DB
HTTP/HTTPS GET/POST, PING, TCP, UDP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, FTP, VOIP, DNS, MySQL
Check Response Time and Availability
4. why did my site crash?

5. #2: Server Monitor CPU, Memory, Processes, Storage; Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris Agents

• Agents push data to Monitis Cloud via HTTPs
• No need to open firewalls
• Naturally support distributed environments

6. is there a problem in my network?
7. Agentless checks of network devices and servers.
HTTPs push to Monitis Cloud (no firewall changes)

#3: Network MonitorSNMP, ping, http, ssh, discovery
8. is every aspect of my site, including login, booking, shopping, and communication scripts, functioning properly?

9. #4: Transaction Monitor Multi-step applications, scenario-based
Application workflow, checks, simulate end-user actions
10. do I have control over my cloud-deployed data/application?

11. #5: Cloud MonitorAmazon EC2, S3; instances, automation, usage
Track running instances, auto-deploy server and application monitors, control usage
12. what's my site's traffic right now?

13. #6: Web Traffic Monitor visitors, page views, keywords, referrers
Real-time web traffic tracking
14. one answer

15. One Monitoring Tool for All

• Real-time graphical views
• Control Dashboard
• Powerful notification rules

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What Things May Affect End User Experience?

When you’re trying to enter and navigate websites, you may not always have a good experience. It all seems confusing sometimes, even daunting, with all the factors that have to be taken into account to make a web transaction successful. We’ve heard of such things as mashups, plug-ins, and mobile browsers. But for the average user, the basics are what count. It all comes down to availability and performance.

Ultimately, errors can be encountered related to the application, database, network, or the infrastructure. These areas require various technical disciplines, so finding a resolution to an outage sometimes requires lengthy conference calls to figure out who to blame. Calls like this can be avoided, or at least shortened, with better monitoring. That’s why company websites should be thought of as end-to-end systems that focus more on what the user experiences and integrating web operations with a Business Service Management strategy (BSM).

Inevitably viewers will encounter issues while utilizing your website from time to time. Hard errors such as the commonly known 404 message, a non functioning database, network overload, and a loss of connection are fortunately easy to detect and clearly spelled out to a knowledgeable person. Website monitoring and pinging servers can catch these problems easily.

Soft errors are ones that cause the application to misbehave rather than break down entirely. If users have to log in twice, navigational paths are broken, page links and buttons don’t work, or necessary data cannot be submitted, a soft error has occurred. These errors are difficult to diagnose or detect, because users are confused and don’t know exactly what has gone wrong. What can help detect soft errors? Applications or transactions monitoring have the ability to detect such issues. How this works is a monitoring system will regularly execute a defined script that is programmed by the site owner. If there are any problems, the program will report these to the site owner.

Visitors to your site may have many different kinds of problems with your site’s performance। The most important measure of performance is the length of time required for the user to work with the application. Inconsistent performance can be even worse than slow performance in many cases. Users are likely to abandon your site and its applications if performance is unexpectedly poor, because they will believe that your site is broken when it slows down.



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Monitis Visitor Tracking Tutorial (Web Traffic Monitor)

Setup Website Visitor Tracking in 3 easy steps. Visitor tracking allows:

* Real time website visitors tracking
* Comprehensive statistics: unique visitors, page views, referrers, browsers, OS, geography
* Customizable dashboard views

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MONITIS Adds 9 Enterprise-Class Options for Robust and Efficient Failure Notification

Monitis made available several enterprise-class systems failure and performance outage notification management options.

Additional enhancements include customizable alert notifications such as:

• Configure the time frames for when users want to receive alerts,
• The number of failures required to trigger an alert notification,
• Turn on continuous alerting until recovery which prevents users from missing a single alert,
• Turn off the recovery message,
• Configure from which locations the user wants to receive notifications for failures,
• Create contract groups that can be used for alerting,
• Define maintenance hours for when alerting is not required,
• Configure scheduled, recurring maintenance hours and
• Configure maintenance hours by single monitor or group.

Read more at Monitis blog