Network Monitor And Router Software

[my5660]

hi,
I'm currently searching good and ease network monitor software, it can also draw and layout a map of my networks, monitor services of my devices and alert me in case some service has problems.

Any recommendations? :)

oh yeah almost forgot
does anyone knows a good and ease costumize a Router software..? :D

[patjec]

I use MONIT. For a few servers it's ok. For more than 3 not. If you wish to see what happents on your server you have to open it in your browser, 1 screen for every server. See http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin for details.

I gonna test Bixdata because it seems more made for monitoring more servers. See http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_bixdata for details. I have no experience with Bixdata.

[falko]

You can also try Zabbix, Nagios, and Cacti.
For Zabbix, we have a tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/zabbix_network_monitoring :)

[MishaZorin]

For different purposes I use MONIT and NETWIEV

[badgerbox76]

I don't know if this is what your looking for but with http://www.opendns.com/ you can monitor domain requests from your network or set filters.