Monitoring Tool

[M.Siler]

What would be a good utility / application to monitor our network as far as
throughput? Something that would give me an alarm if one of the NICs in the
servers stopped working or slowed down. We have Gigabit cards in our servers
and I'd like to know if the are trully working at a gigabit and to be
alerted it they drop to 100 or 10 or stop completely.

 

[Sam Salhi [MSFT]]

I doubt there is a way to actually measure the throughput without actually
affecting the performance

You can use Perfmon counters to know the current throughput. (also if you're
using Windows Server 2003, you can see this info in Task Manager as well)