Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold strikes an excellent balance between visual pizzazz and the ability to track common network devices. While the extensible plugins aren't as freely available as with some competitors, the core product more than makes up for this in most cases.
Ipswitch is probably most widely known for its popular WS FTP product, but the company has long offered Whatsup Gold as as one of its flagships as well as its entry for network monitoring software. WhatsUp Gold has a reputation from early on as being somewhat basic in the …