BANGALORE, INDIA: 'What all can you manage from your Android device?' Was the question that we were wondering before we found thousands of apps on the Android market that could be useful to each one of us. Here in this article we would focus on system administration and check how these apps can be used to check health of the network.

Before you use these apps you need to have a connection between your Android based device and the machine or network you are trying to check. We did this by having a wireless network with the same subnet as our wired network. Plus all these applications are freely downloadable from Android market.

Ping!Up

We all know the importance of a ping test, but how about your ability to ping from your Android powered device? This application while pinging an IP address gives you information about, bytes of data, ttl, icmp_seq, and time.

HTTPing

This application lets you check the latency (web server and network) of any URL and gives you time it takes to connect to a particular URL. It is a great feature if you want to check response of your web-based applications.