BitMeter OS

The product is multi-faceted and provides many different options for data consumption.  Let's get in the nitty-gritty.

Features:

• Alerting - allows you to be alerted when certain events that you have predetermined occur
• Query - allows you to find specific data that you want - perhaps you want to know which users downloaded a certain file or why one user has a large amount of bandwidth used.  This can be useful to stop torrenting inside your company.
• History - pretty self-explanatory - shows the history of bandwidth usage as a whole or per user.  This can be useful for the financial department when you are trying to budget for the year.  Any overage cost that is incurred can be traced back to a specific user or system.
• Preferences - this is the main hub where you set your guidelines.  Here you can set your bandwidth limits, your speed limits, and your data flow limits.  This will ensure that company resources are used on what they are intended for and not for downloading outside files and browsing the internet.

In conclusion, this tool is a must-have for any IT monitoring team.  It provides useful charts based on off alerting that you create.  You can monitor bandwidth usage at your fingertips.  This ensures that your budget will stay on track and make your financials in your department look as efficient as possible.  Any manager with any type of common sense will see this tool and immediately want to add it to their company.  Employees will be more efficient as well.  You will always have a paper trail when something goes potentially wrong.  

The main benefit of this software is that it is flexible so that it can be used in many different environments.