Network Informant

Today just about every device you connect to your network can provide you with useful information about itself via it's SNMP agent.

SNMP or Simple Network Management Protocol is a standard way that many different devices can provide information about their configuration and status on the network. SNMP also allows devices a method to whereby each devices statistical counters can be accessed and reported on.

The challenge for today's networks is to take this SNMP data from potentially 100s of devices and present the network administrator with easy to understand salient facts. Network Informant provides this information.

Network Informant is a powerful MS Windows NT based system that consolidates the SNMP information from Hub's, Switch's and Router's to create powerful reports that a Network Administrator can use to help manage the entire network.

Proven Technology

Network Informant allows you to gain a complete overview of traffic volume and patterns on all size networks. Most importantly, Network Informant keeps you informed with data gathered from the SNMP agent of any
network device.

Network Informant provides networking professionals with an easy way to evaluate network traffic and fine-tune configurations.

You'll find your network runs better. End users become more productive. And, you're seen at your best.

With one simple software program, you can begin managing your network proactively by identifying and anticipating utilisation inefficiencies before they become full-scale problems.

Eliminate Programming Overhead, Network Informant frees networking professionals from the time-consuming programming that is required to collect data for long-term performance analysis.

Network Informant reliably gathers utilisation data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week this is analyzed and presented in exception reports that provide access to high-level consolidated information as well as device-specific details.

With Network Informant, you'll be able to determine just how busy serial lines, Ethernet LANs and remote access ports really are, just to name a few. Direct it at a server and get NIC card utilisation data. Focus Network Informant on any router and get utilisation statistics on each line. No matter what's on your network, you get access to valuable SNMP data across all devices on your network.

The Network Informant Advantage:

• Optimised network performance
  
• Turnkey network utilisation analysis
  
• Monitors any SNMP-based device
  
• Eliminates time-consuming and costly programming
  
• 24x7 data gathering for long-term trend analysis
  
• Easy to install, simple to use
  
• Low cost

Network Informant includes Performance modules that offer additional detail to standard SNMP variables these include:

Switch PM - This software tool analyses the data from the embedded SNMP agents of your switch as it monitors each switched port 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Using a rules-based inference engine developed specifically for the device, Switch PM identifies each condition that falls outside the parameters of "healthy" performance.

It then transforms the SNMP data collected from your switch into empirical information by quantifying and reporting performance inefficiencies before they become severe problems.

Router PM - RouterPM goes far beyond the current generation of SNMP management platforms.

It collects and presents a wide variety of data in a format that finally gives network managers pertinent information from which to work.

Router PM diagnostics provides specific recommendations based on an enterprise analysis of the corporate network rather than a collection of raw data.

As a result, Router PM identifies and resolves such enterprise-wide performance and capacity planning problems as:

• LAN-to-router interface congestion
• Inefficiencies in WAN serial lines or Frame Relay PVCs
• Over-utilization of WAN serial lines or Frame Relay PVCs
• Internal buffer and queue inefficiencies
• Router CPU and memory utilization issues

Frame Relay PM - Frame Relay PM automatically gathers information from Frame Relay devices from multiple vendors, including routers, channel service units and data service units (CSU and DSUs) and frame relay access devices (FRADs).

Through seven-days-a- week, 24-hours-a-day monitoring, it detects a variety of information on Frame Relay traffic, such as bad packets, congestion on the line, and high forward explicit congestion n o t i fication (FECN) and backward explicit congestion notification (BECN) rates.

Frame Relay PM�s valuable Web-based exception r e p o r t s help you determine the most important potential problems; expert analysis then suggests how to solve these problems. Together, these capabilities enable you to understand the quality of your Frame Relay service and manage your network more proactively.

How Frame Relay PM helps:

• Improve the management of your network by using details and expanded diagnostics on Frame Relay traffic
• Become more proactive by predicting and preventing Frame Relay traffic-related problems
• Reduce operation costs through 24x7 monitoring and problem identification
• Solve Frame Relay traffic-related problems more effectively with sophisticated rules-based analysis
• Ease the task of troubleshooting with web-browser viewable data from any desktop platform Frame Relay PM gathers information from a wide variety of devices in your network.

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