One of the easiest transport layer protocols available in the TCP/IP protocol suite is the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The communication mechanism involved is minimal. With UDP, neither the receiver nor the sender receives any acknowledgements of packets received. This protocol's shortcoming makes it unreliable and easier to process than many other protocols. Although UDP is considered an unreliable transport protocol, it uses IP services to ensure the best attempts are made to deliver data.

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a numerical label which is used for addressing he location and identification of the network interface for the devices connected to the computer network. The most used and popular IP version is IPv4 which uses 32-bit for IP addresses. Since the IPv4 became popular and the IPv4 addresses are getting depleted, Ipv6 is now used which uses 128-bit for the IP addresses.

For today’s IT operations teams, the stakes keep getting higher and demands only intensify. The services these teams are responsible for managing play an increasingly critical role in the prospects of the business, which means optimizing service levels is an absolute imperative. Meanwhile, the environments in play only seem to keep getting larger, more complex, and more dynamic. Given these factors, monitoring is a task that keeps getting more vital and more difficult.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM) tools like Progress’s own What’s Up Gold are the backbone of any IT Operations monitoring strategy. However, these tools are primarily focused on general purpose visibility across a wide range of infrastructure and systems with an emphasis on operational availability and performance.