The best practices to monitor my network?

[Albert_Hernandez]

Hi everyone! I am Network Admin of a little network.

Sometimes my network slow down. We use an ASA5525 Firewall, I am CCENT R&S I am new on security and firewalls, do you know if the firewall have some tool to monitor my web or I can use solarwinds or something like that?

What tool do you recommend to monitor my web? My network is like for 120 employers.

Thanks

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

I would recommend an SNMP monitor (https://www.cacti.net/) to monitor interface stats and device health metrics.

Also configure netflow on your routing devices and have them export to a collector (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nfsen/) to give you a better insight into the type of traffic on your network.

Both should be able to inform you and help locate possible causes of network slowdown.

cheers,

Seb.