Remote access to intranets and otherwise restricted areas was always a challenge. On one hand, it’s desirable to re-create convenient and familiar access to the same resources; on the other hand, there are many issues, starting from ensuring security and access reliability The same is related to monitoring. If a network’s devices should be monitored, there always should be access to them; thus, there’s a separate task of monitoring accessibility. Below are several guidelines.

To make sure no site content is modified or intercepted en route, HTTPS protocol is used (this is currently a must; using HTTP, insecure version, is strongly discouraged). Different versions of so called “transport security layer” protocol, known as TLS, can be used to provide the mentioned secure data exchange.

Simple Network Management Protocols, SNMP, refers to protocols family used to probe and control various network devices. It includes three protocol versions (v1, v2c, v3), all of those supported by IPHost Network Monitor. SNMP is a popular means of watching network devices of any kind (nowadays literally every device with an IP address can support SNMP); however, there are typical problems users can encounter when using SNMP-enabled devices in local or global network.