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Distributed edition introduction

With distributed testing it is possible to monitor servers, routers and other network connected equipment that is normally inaccessible or only accessible through a low bandwidth connection. To accomplish this a monitoring gateway is installed on the remote network. The gateway is completely managed from the Network Monitor master server, and send its monitoring results back to the Network Monitor server.

Distributed testing is a feature exclusive to the Distributed Edition of Network Monitor.

Distributed testing concept

Network Monitor server

The Network Monitor server contains the database and management interface. Remote objects in gateways are managed in exactly the same way as local objects, making the Network Monitor Distributed Edition very simple to configure and manage. This process is completely transparent to the operator.

Network Monitor gateway

A gateway is a special version of Network Monitor that only acts on requests from the server. Except for a small cache file, gateways do not store any configuration or statistical data to disk. All data is sent immediately to the Network Monitor server. The gateway can be installed on any available machine in the remote network and does not require a dedicated server.