Hello, I'm experiencing some excess network traffic on one of our production web servers at random times of the day. I'm looking for a network monitoring tool that would alert me when ping times or general network traffic goes over a certain threshold. Ideally it would run as a Windows Service so nobody has to be actively running an application. Does anyone know of an application like this? Thanks!

Hi, You could customize a script to read Network performance data and send alert. For your reference: Monitor and Tune Network Bandwidth and Connectivityhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd722745.aspx Why Does My Performance Monitoring Script Keep Returning the Same Incorrect Values?http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/04/21/why-does-my-performance-monitoring-script-keep-returning-the-same-incorrect-values.aspx Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface Classhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394340(VS.85).aspxIf you have difficulty to customize the script, I suggest that you initial a new post in The Official Scripting Guys Forum! to get further support there. They are the best resource for scripting related problems. The Official Scripting Guys Forum!http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/threads You can also install ISA with bandwidth control extension or third party software. For your reference: Bandwidth Controlhttp://www.isaserver.org/software/ISA/Bandwidth-Control/ Thanks. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mervyn, thanks for the information. I'm going to start looking through these articles and I'll let you know how I do. Thanks again! -Adam