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Network Monitoring |
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| Device reachability monitoring | Monitor all devices to ensure that they are operational and reachable | |||||
| Device latency monitoring | Track latency of communications traffic to/from every network device | |||||
| Device loss monitoring | Monitor packet loss during communications between all network devices | |||||
| Device jitter monitoring | Track jitter to/from every network device | |||||
| Device uptime reporting | Report on device reachability and uptime stats | |||||
| Routing table entry alerting | Track changes/adds/deletions of routes on routers and can trigger alerts | |||||
| Device backplane utilization reporting | Track overall backplane utilization for the device | |||||
| Interface up/down status monitoring | Monitor critical infrastructure interfaces to make sure they are operational | |||||
| Interface utilization monitoring | Monitor infrastructure interfaces to make sure they have adequate bandwidth | |||||
| Network diagramming | Provide a network diagram of all network devices and subnets and how they connect | |||||
| Syslog server | Accept and alert on syslog messages generated by network devices | |||||
| SNMP trap receiver | Accept and alert on received SNMP trap messages | |||||
| Device configuration backups | Automatically back up network device configurations on a set schedule | |||||
| Device configuration change notices | Send alerts out when network devices have their configuration changed, showing who changed the configuration and what was changed | |||||
| Large scale device configuration | Able to deploy configuration on multiple devices | |||||
| Device configuration compare/diff capability | Quickly determine the differences/changes between network device backups | |||||
| Immediate backup | Performs an immediate backup of a network device via the web UI | |||||
| BGP neighbor monitoring | Monitor status and reachability of BGP neighbors | |||||
| Network device health monitoring | Monitor the CPU of the device, along with the latency/jitter/loss to/from the device for stability tracking | |||||
| PoE monitoring | Tracks PoE usage of the switch as well as interfaces | |||||
| STP monitoring | Tracks Spanning-Tree Protocol for the switch as well as per interface | |||||
| Device inventory | Tracks each component's manufacturer, model, serial number, OS version as well as serial numbers | |||||
| Support contract monitoring | Maintains support contract information per device and notifies when support contracts are due to expire | |||||
| Network path mapping | Can present every link, switch, and router used to connect any two IP addresses across the network | |||||
| TFTP server | Built-in TFTP server for loading/saving configurations as well as OS images | |||||
| UniCast stats | Calculates per-device Unicast vs. broadcast/multicast stats, as well as per-interface stats | |||||
| Internal system description values | Shows OS compile date as well as OS version information | |||||
| Financial performance monitoring | Tracks device manufacture date, deployment date, procurement cost, amortization length, support cost to arrive at monthly operating cost | |||||
| NetFlow support | Support NetFlow v5, v9, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow. Should show who is using bandwidth on a link at a specified time, as well as who a computer is communicating with | |||||
| IPAM | Fully integrated IPAM showing all subnets configured in the environment and what IP addresses exist on those subnets. Integrates with Microsoft DHCP. | |||||
| NBAR | Supports Cisco NBAR reporting on interfaces | |||||
| Interface live utilization monitoring | Monitors live utilization on any interface in the infrastructure with 5-second updates | |||||
| Interface utilization trending | Tracks the transmittal and receipt trends for all interfaces in the infrastructure | |||||
| Interface error tracking | Monitors all known error counters (all ifEntry errors as well as ethernet dot3Stats errors) on all interfaces | |||||
| Cloud service monitoring | Tracks the health, performance, and route-path to outside cloud services | |||||
| Internet health check | Tests connectivity to the Internet along with validating local and remote DNS services are operating | |||||
| Prediction capability | Proactively analyze when bandwidth will run out as well as predict where cabling faults will cause problems | |||||
| Plain-English results | Heuristics engine analyzes error counters, and configuration conditions, and produces plain-English answers to detected faults | |||||
| CDP/LLDP support | CDP and LLDP information is collected for every interface in the network | |||||
| WAN interface details | Tracks provider, circuit ID, contract expiration date, cost per gigabit, queueing type, 95th percentile, and MTU for all WAN links | |||||
| SD-WAN underlay monitoring | Tracks performance of individual carrier underlay networks to determine path stability, latency, and loss along a transit. | |||||
| Trunk port monitoring | Can easily find all switch-to-switch trunk ports in the environment, their configured speeds, utilization rates, and loss levels | |||||
| Half-duplex report | Report on all half-duplex interfaces in the environment | |||||
| Unknown protocol report | Report on all interfaces that have dropped packets due to unknown protocol usage | |||||
| Port-mapper | Finds where a computer is located on the network, as well as what is connected to any port on a switch/router/firewall | |||||
| Multi-vendor network device support | Will work on any vendor's network equipment | |||||
| OUI lookup tool | Easily determine the manufacturer of a MAC address found on the network | |||||
| VLAN report | Shows all VLANs configured on all network devices in the infrasructure | |||||
| Global search tool | Find any IP address, MAC address, OUI, DNS name, or CDP/LLDP description of a device on the network | |||||
| Network service monitoring | Checks port reachability or pingability of network services along with latency and loss over time | |||||
| Client tracking reporting | Tracks all end user computers: where they are connected, what they are, version of OS, and how long they have been online | |||||
| MIB browser | MIB browser with an auto-compiled MIB database for querying individual values off of devices | |||||
| Custom OID monitoring/alerting | Can monitor and alert on custom OIDs added to the configuration | |||||
| Reporting | Sends email reports on uptime, performance, health, and issues detected in the network | |||||
| Alerting | Sends out email alerts, or syslog alerts, that can be automated with our ticketing system | |||||
API Integrations |
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| Web API integration | Supports RESTful JSON front-end API with API documentation | |||||
| NetAlly Link-Live integration | Integrates with NetAlly's Link-Live API | |||||
| PaloAlto API integration | Integrates with PaloAlto networks API | |||||
| Meraki API integration | Integrates with Meraki's cloud API | |||||
VoIP/UC Monitoring |
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| Call simulator | License-unlimited call simulator to simulate synthetic RTP traffic throughout the infrastructure. | |||||
| Cisco CBQoS queue monitoring | Automatically monitors Cisco CBQoS on all interfaces to show queue performance, configuration, as well as drops | |||||
| SIP-Trunk monitoring | Monitors stability and health of connections to outside session border controllers (SBCs) | |||||
| Phone locator | Locates all physical handsets in the environment | |||||
| Phone move alerting | Alerting if a phone moves or is disconnected | |||||
| MOS score reporting & alerting | Reports on MOS scores to/from any monitored device | |||||
| VoIP assessment report | Provides automatic assessment reports on VoIP/UC traffic | |||||
Server Monitoring |
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| Automated server monitoring | Auto-add new domain servers to the monitoring system | |||||
| CPU monitoring | Monitor the CPU utilization of the server | |||||
| Free RAM monitoring | Monitors the free RAM on the server | |||||
| Drive/Volume free disk space monitoring | Monitors the available disk space on drives on the server | |||||
| Service/daemon monitoring | Monitors the status of running services/daemons on the server | |||||
| Server inventory | Shows the inventory information about all servers in the environment | |||||
| User login monitoring | Tracks who is logged in to each server’s console | |||||
Cloud Service Monitoring |
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| Availability tracking | Tracks availability of cloud services | |||||
| Route-path alerting | Generates alerts when a route to a cloud service changes | |||||
| Latency/loss alerting | Triggers alerts when latency or loss to a cloud service exceeds thresholds | |||||
User Interface |
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| Easy-to-use interface | Has an intuitive interface that does not require a training class to understand and use. | |||||
| Customizable dashboards | Multiple user-customizable dashboards that can be shared with other users | |||||
| Responsive front-end performance | The front-end interface is responsively sized and loads rapidly | |||||
| Customizable color schemes | Has light mode, dark mode, and other color integrations for better working environments | |||||
| Custom notes | Allows customizable notes to be added for each device it monitors | |||||
| Custom roles | Individual logins can have different roles/views | |||||
| AD integration | Integration with AD/LDAP for logins | |||||
Back-End |
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| Lightweight server requirements | Does not require 8-CPU machines with 24 gigs of RAM | |||||
| Scalability for large networks | A single deployment can monitor networks with over 100,000 nodes | |||||
| Can work on air-gapped networks | Can be isolated to operate without Internet connectivity | |||||
| Maintains all data locally | All data is maintained locally; no data is "shipped to the cloud" | |||||
| Virtual machine support | Can be deployed to a virtual machine | |||||
| Cloud server support | Can be deployed to a cloud server | |||||
| Broad Windows OS support | Can run on any version of Windows (even Desktop OS) | |||||
SecOps (SOAR/NDR & ASM) |
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| Network device OS vulnerabilities | Synchronizes with NIST every 24 hours to determine published vulnerabilities for OS images along with vendor remediation recommendations | |||||
| Communications policy monitoring | Triggers alerts if communications to/from different devices/subnets are not matching the desired policy | |||||
| Detects exposures & bad practices | Detects unencrypted HTTP use, telnet, unencrypted FTP, uncontrolled DNS, uncontrolled NTP, uncontrolled SMTP | |||||
| Detects new devices on the network | Can locate where devices are connected and where their communications are transmitted | |||||
| Detects rogue infrastructure on the network | Detects unapproved switches, routers, gateways, DNS servers, and DHCP servers on the network | |||||
| Certificate monitoring | Tracks certificate validity, expiration, and can send alerts/reports with 30-day notices before they would expire | |||||
| DNS record monitoring | Tracks DNS records to make sure they are valid, and alerts if a record is changed to an unapproved target | |||||
| IoT device monitoring | Tracks all IoT devices, their type, their connection on the network and where their communications are transmitted | |||||
| Geographic data tracking | Tracks where data is flowing to/from (countries) as well as volume of traffic. Can trigger alerts if communications occurs with blacklisted countries. | |||||
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