Other packages, such as GenevaSoft's AlertPage and Avanti Technology's NCAlert, store this information in a database. This makes it easy to ensure the right person gets the page, even when work hours and the alert time, staff turnover, vacations, and illnesses cause the person who should respond to an alert to change. Link Analyst offers a wealth of information about network performance. Charts and graphs are available to show the communication speed. Better yet, the charts can be sorted by the alert status, name, or the number of good, marginal, or poor polls with a single mouse-click.
Response times are graphed and readily available.
Link Analyst can also monitor routes. I send a lot of information between my office and a local university. The performance is usually poor, but Link Analyst clearly revealed the reasons. The messages have to cross 24 hops, traveling from Texas to Georgia then to Illinois, back to Texas, and then to the school, which is less than a 15-minute drive away. In the course of my testing, the route changed several times, and Link Analyst told me when.