ANALYSIS OF MONITORING MEANS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Abstract

The article considers current issues of monitoring electronic communication networks in the context of the rapid development of information technologies, the growth of cyber threats, and the peculiarities of the functioning of network infrastructure during martial law.
The main attention is paid to the analysis of modern software and hardware tools used to monitor the performance and security of electronic communication networks, as well as for the prompt detection of overloads, failures, anomalies, and potentially dangerous activity.
A comparative analysis of modern network monitoring tools from leading communication equipment manufacturers, including Cisco, MikroTik, Juniper, Ubiquiti and Grandstream, was conducted. It was shown that the tools they offer provide effective functionality, automated updates, flexible data analysis tools, and support, but have limited integration capabilities with devices from other manufacturers. This makes it difficult to implement centralized monitoring systems in networks with a mixed structure.
Independent universal monitoring systems, such as Zabbix, Nagios, NeDi, PRTG Network Monitor, Cacti, Wireshark, which are able to interact with a wide range of different types of network equipment using open protocols (SNMP, HTTP/HTTPS API, ICMP), are also considered. The advantages of such systems in the context of scalability, adaptability and configuration flexibility are shown.
The feasibility of a hybrid approach to building monitoring systems is substantiated, which combines the functionality of vendor and independent solutions, which allows achieving a high level of data detail and visualization, performing operational analytics in real time, forming an effective incident response syste