Each device will have different requirements, and even then, you'll need to decide what you want to monitor and why. Are you interested in disk space? CPU utilization? Do you want to make sure that a certain application or service is running on a device? The more complex network monitoring solutions can do just that, and anything else your mind can dream up.
It is the software that performs the monitoring of different things. It collects data, analyze it and then gives the result depending on software's settings. There are a lot of things that can be monitored: weather, knowledges, computers on the network, and many others.
Yes, it can.
If you do not set password for your wireless network you will get unsecured network. If you mean that you want use your router to connect to another unsecured wireless network and create so called "bridge" the answer is yes. But! Router from different manufactures usually do not work together in the bridge configuration. There are some exceptions but just few.
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Nope - every mobile phone can be tracked by its network ! The network needs to know its physical location - in order to route calls to it !
to determine which areas in the network are underutilized or overutilizedto determine the performance of the network during the normal hours of operationto determine what thresholds should be set for the devices that need to be monitored
You can monitor your network performance ,your internet speed and even your netflow traffic.. Netflow Traffic Analyzer enables you to quantify exactly how your network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose. Network Monitoring helps you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues with your dynamic network.
Yes if the fire panel you are using has the capability to have a network card added to it, and you have a available LAN access.
Not unless you are accessing it through a proxy server (large network of computers with controlled internet access) i.e. in a prison, school or office.
they are things you attach to your computer which allows it to connect to a network
Putting this question on this site is one example of using a network. Any network will allow some things and block other things depending on which network you are using. That is why effectively all networks have a Network Administrator who has the job of making sure that people can use the network safely for the purpose the network was set up for
There are many media watchdog groups already, so yes, it is monitored. It should not be monitored by the government.