SNMPc Enterprise is a scalable, distributed management suite for managing medium to large sized networks.  SNMPc Enterprise employs multiple components running on different computers, and uses distributed database technology to provide a high performance platform regardless of the size or configuration of your network. 

Key Product Features Server runs under Windows NT Console runs under Win 95/98/NT Supports CiscoWorks/Windows Full RMON-1 Application Multiple Console Logins Distributed Polling Agents Scheduled WEB/Printed Reports Automatic Baseline Alarms MIB Expressions (e.g., Utilisation) Email/Pager Event Notification Advanced Event Actions Network Discovery Real Time Tabular/Graphical Displays Device Specific Applications Programming Interfaces

Distributed Architecture

Multiple Login Consoles

SNMPc Enterprise provides both local and remote access.   You can run the remote console application from any Windows workstation using a local or remote TCP/IP connection.  All SNMPc Enterprise functions are available from remote consoles.  Each console can have complete read-write access, independent of other console sessions.  The SNMPc Enteprise Basic System includes one remote console license.

Distributed Polling

Polling Agents perform discovery of locally attached network devices. Each Polling Agent uses discovery filters, based on network addresses to limit the scope of the discovered topology. The discovery algorithm determines the device type, its network attachments, and supported protocols, including IP, SNMP, Telnet, and HTTP (WEB).

Polling Agents monitor the status and alarm thresholds for discovered devices using ICMP and SNMP requests.  Polling Agents also save long term MIB statistics in a local database. Status changes and alarms are forwarded to SNMPc Enterprise Servers.  SNMPc Enteprise includes one local polling agent.  Remote Polling Agents are sold separately.

Trend Reporting

Scheduled Printed and WEB Reports

SNMPc Enterprise automatically generates scheduled daily, weekly, and monthly statistic reports. Report formats include graph, bar chart, distribution, and summary, and can be exported to a variety of destinations, including printers, files, or a WEB server.

SNMPc Enterprise report setup is very simple. After selecting a group of nodes and a MIB profile, then the reporting style, destination, and schedule, SNMPc Enterprise automatically programs all remote polling agents. You can use the included TrendView application or a WEB browser to view reports from any workstation.

ODBC Export

SNMPc 5.0 Enterprise can automatically export all saved long-term statistics to industry standard ODBC databases.  Use familiar tools such as Seagate Crystal Reports or Microsoft Access to generate customised trend reports.

Trend Analysis

Saving long term statistics is of little use if the result is mountains of datato peruse.  SNMPc Enterprise helps you find interesting traffic patterns before they become problems.

SNMPc Enterprise can search for the top set of variables polled by a variety of criteria, including greatest rate of increase, greatest value, and greatest deviation from baseline. Using searches in scheduled reports shows the problem areas in your network, before polling generates threshold alarms.

Automatic Alarms

Once history polling is setup, Polling Agents monitor all variables for a learning period and calculate a baseline for typical patterns during each hour of a week. Thereafter, the Polling Agents compare the actual polled data to the baseline and generate alarms when variables deviate excessively from the baseline. Polling Agents automatically adjust baselines as traffic patterns change. You can also manually configure alarm thresholds for any polled variable.

Service Level Polling

SNMPc 5.0 automatically discovers WEB, FTP, SMTP, and TELNET services, as well as two user-selectable TCP ports.  SNMPc 5.0 saves response time and percent failure information for all polled services and for regular Ping/SNMP status polling.

After your services are discovered, SNMPc 5.0 will regularly poll to detect if they go up or down. This information is critical to maximising uninterrupted access to important Internet services.  With the importance of the WEB in today's business environment, you need to be the first to know if your WEB server is unavailable.

Along with real-time service status, SNMPc 5.0 Enterprise also provides WEB-based Availability Reports.  From verifying your ISP's quality of service to maximising your Internet customer's satisfaction, SNMPc 5.0 Availability Reports give you the edge.  And if your systems need to be upgraded, SNMPc 5.0 Availability Reports will save you money by directing resources to where they are most needed.

Advanced Network Mapping

SNMPc 5.0 supports a multi-level hierarchical map. Each hierarchy can represent cities, buildings, or subnetworks. Imported bitmaps of geographic maps or floor plans, along with manual or automatic network placement, lets you create a layout that closely matches the actual network.

SNMPc 5.0 can automatically lay out each map network as a tree, ring, or snaked bus topology. Each map object uses a device specific or user selected icon, and the object color indicates the device status. You can start any device specific application by double clicking map icons.

The Map Navigation Tool Window displays the map as a tree for direct selection of objects. The Navigation tree also displays the worst status of each subnet to quickly locate failing devices.

The map window Full Zoom feature automatically moves and zooms the view so that all devices are always visible in the window. The Pan/Zoom feature lets you select a region to zoom into from the complete set of devices in a view.

Real-time MIB Displays

SNMPc 5.0 supports real-time displays of MIB variable data in tabular or graphical format. Table or graph displays can include multiple devices and variables from different standard and private MIBs, including derived expressions such as Utilisation, Volume, and Percent Errors. You can select any variable cells, table rows or columns, for graphical display. You can modify and set any MIB variable directly from a Table display using "in-place" editing. The Graph Display shows data as a line graph, pie chart, bar chart, or distribution. The Graph display also shows the minimum, maximum, and average values for each variable.

Event Management

SNMPc 5.0 changes the color of map objects and performs other actions based on received events. Event Action Filters select the action to take when an event occurs. SNMPc 5.0 can ignore or log an event, set the event priority, forward the event to other managers as an SNMP Trap, forward the event to an email address or alphanumeric pager, display an Alarm dialog box, or execute an application program. Event Filters can limit the number of similar events generated within a period of time, or completely ignore duplicate events.

You can view events using the Log Tool Window. Each log view shows current or historical events for one or more devices and event priorities.

Notify!Connect

Notify!connect integrates with SNMPc 5.0 to alert you whenever an important event occurs. SNMPc will send the entire event log entry to your alphanumeric pager. Notify!Connect is included free with SNMPc 5.0 Enterprise and WorkGroup editions.

Tone, Numeric and Alphanumeric pages Send messages to individuals or groups Automatically splits long messages Background operation Logs status and message traffic Supports TAP, IXO, Numeric DTMF, SkyPage DTMF, and Mobilcomm DTMF Protocols Full DDE support for other applications MAPI support for Microsoft Mail

Customisation

MIB Expressions

SNMPc 5.0 supports MIB expressions to show derived information such as line Utilisation.  You can use any of the predefined MIB Expressions, or create your own, to automatically view interesting information in a format you can understand. You can add MIB expressions MIB source files, or create them dynamically with the MIB Expression Calculator.

MIB Compiler

The built-in MIB compiler accepts any MIB in ASN.1 format. Many standard and Enterprise Specific MIBs are preinstalled and ready to use. Once compiled, you can use MIB definitions with any SNMPc NT MIB functions, including the table or graph displays and long term statistics polling.

Custom Tables

You can dynamically create custom tables using the MIB navigation tool window. Custom tables can be subsets of existing MIB tables, or can include variables from tables in different MIBs. You can use MIB Expressions to include derived data types such as Utilisation, Volume, and Percent Errors.

Custom Menus

User defined custom menus directly perform SNMPc 5.0 commands without having to select MIB objects. Custom menus can display a MIB table; edit, graph or chart any set of MIB variables; set an SNMP MIB variable; or run an application program. SNMPc 5.0 automatically enables or disables Custom Menus depending on the protocol attributes supported by the selected objects.

Applications

Multi-Vendor Graphical Device Views

The HubView and BitView scripting applications display a graphical image for multi-slot routers, bridges, and hubs. Device specific custom menus and mouse commands perform SNMPc Enterprise commands on the selected slot or port, or other graphical element.

SNMPc 5.0 includes device scripts for all devices that conform to standard MIBs and for dozens of private MIB devices, including Cisco, Bay, and 3com devices. You can easily develop HubView or BitView scripts to graphically manage any SNMP device.

RMON User Interface

SNMPc 5.0 includes support for any RMON-1    probe. You can configure and view data from any of the RMON groups. The Matrix program shows Host conversations in a matrix graph. Packet capture filters use protocol or application type and source or destination addresses. Captured packets can be saved in industry standard formats.

MIB Browser

SNMPc 5.0 includes a general purpose MIB browser for displaying and setting individual MIB variables. The MIB Browser can also read all variables supported by a device and export the variable names and values to a file.

Support Applications

SNMPc 5.0 includes Tftp server and client applications, and a Bootp server application, to aid in downloading IP addresses and executable images into devices. SNMPc 5.0 also includes a copy of the Notify!Connect pager notification application from ExMachina. Notify!Connect works with any numeric or alphanumeric pager to immediately alert you when important events occur.

Programming

SNMPc 5.0 Programming Interface

The SNMPc 5.0 architecture uses a simple DLL based API that provides complete distributed management capabilities to any application. This API has a small number of common functions that operate on instances of object classes. Each object has a set of attributes that you can read and modify.

Object classes map onto functional groups, including Session, Map, Log, SNMP, MIB, Event Filter, Custom Menus, and others. Classes also exist for creating high level objects such as map views, log views, MIB tables, and MIB graphs.

You can easily create programs that run as Polling Agent, Server, or Console components.

WinSNMP Programming Interface

SNMPc 5.0 supports the WinSNMP de-facto standard API for SNMP based programming under Windows. SNMPc 5.0 includes a runtime DLL and trap receiving program, as well as the include files, libraries and documentation required to develop WinSNMP applications.

DDE Programming Interface

SNMPc 5.0 also supports the SNMPc 4.0 Windows DDE based API. You can use this API from Visual Basic programs and from many standard Windows programs such as Microsoft Excel. Commands can query the Map and Mib databases, perform low-level MIB operations, download MIB tables, and execute SNMPc 5.0 commands. HubView and BitView were both developed using the DDE API. Many SNMPc 4.0 OEMs and resellers have also developed DDE based applications for SNMPc 4.0 that will run under SNMPc 5.0.