MG-SOFT Net Inspector Fault and Performance Manager About the Software
MG-SOFT Net Inspector 2010 is a powerful fault and performance management
application designed for monitoring the status and performance
of managed devices and for managing alarms associated with devices
in the supervised TCP/IP network. In addition, Net Inspector
supports VoIP and NetFlow monitoring.
Net Inspector is a client/server application supporting distributed management,
meaning that two or more remote polling engines can be deployed to facilitate efficient
management of your network.
The server module continually monitors network services and important SNMP parameters
(depending on configuration) on your network devices and triggers alarms when
problems occur, e.g., if a device or service stops responding, if SNMP variable
crosses the threshold value, etc. The software has a built-in support for
monitoring the status of a variety of network services (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, SMTP,
IMAP, IMAPS, POP3, SSH, Telnet, NNTP, NNPTS, LDAP, LDAPS, IPP, LPD, MsSQL, MySQL and
Oracle service), and lets you monitor other, user-defined services.
Besides actively polling devices, Net Inspector also receives SNMP Trap
and Inform notifications, which are sent to it by managed devices when
important events occur. The software translates received SNMP notifications
to ITU X.733-compliant alarms, stores alarms in a database and dispatches information about
alarms to connected clients.
Net Inspector Client, on the other hand, is a pure Java™ application that
connects to the server through a TCP/IP connection (which can be secured through
encrypted SSH channel) and provides a graphical user interface that lets you view
and manage alarms on managed objects, monitor the status and performance statistics
of managed objects, as well as configure the client and certain parameters of the
server application. Net Inspector Client can be launched by simply clicking the
relevant link in the included Net Inspector Java Web Start page.
Net Inspector employs advanced network discovery methods and algorithms that let it
automatically discover network devices supporting SNMP or ICMP Ping protocol and
graphically present the layer 2 (physical) and layer 3 (logical) topology of the
discovered network.
MG-SOFT Net Inspector Java Client main window displaying the network topology and active alarms (left section)
and several performance management windows showing the device performance and system resource utilization
charts and data (right section).
Discovered devices are represented by icons that are automatically linked with connection
lines and mapped onto layered maps that reveal how devices are logically arranged into
networks and subnets on the IP level. The integrated scheduler can automatically run the
network discovery operation in regular intervals in order to detect new network devices
and changes in the network topology and update the Net Inspector configuration accordingly.
Due to this automatism and its user-friendly interface, Net Inspector lets you start
monitoring your network almost instantly, without any special training.
In addition to fault management, Net Inspector now incorporates also
the full-featured performance management functionality (provided by the
integrated MG-SOFT Performance Manager application), effectively
covering both essential network management areas. Advantage of the
integrated fault and performance management is that full history of
alarms and performance data is available at the central point, which
allows you to see a more realistic picture of the health of the
network and let you bring educated decisions, based on trend reports,
regarding its maintenance. Further advantage is that the integrated
system enables you to monitor virtually any parameter available
through SNMP (vendor-specific metrics, vendor-specific traps), and let
you deploy distributed polling engines that enable load balancing and
better performance of the management system. Distributed management
also makes the system easily scalable without seriously degrading its
performance, so the management system's capacity can seamlessly grow
with your network.
Besides, Net Inspector now incorporates NetFlow monitoring
that measures the amount and type of network traffic and offers detailed
IP traffic statistics identifying the applications that generate
the most traffic (in packets and bytes), endpoints (IP addresses) that receive and send
the most data, protocols that are used most, etc. This information
is obtained by collecting, analyzing and aggregating NetFlow packets
exported by the NetFlow-enabled devices. Monitoring IP traffic flows
effectively complements the standard SNMP monitoring and together they
offer a valuable insight into the network infrastructure and bandwidth
utilization and let you easily identify the causes of congestions,
determine where to apply Quality of Service, optimize resource usage, etc.
NetFlow monitoring enables more accurate capacity planning and ensures
that resources are used in accordance with your corporate goals.
Furthermore, Net Inspector also lets you monitor the VoIP Quality-Of-
Service metrics (like MOS, jitter, latency, packet loss, etc.) on
devices implementing the IP SLA VoIP jitter functionality (e.g., Cisco
routers).
The software can perform various actions when network events occur.
In addition to sending e-mails and executing arbitrary commands (e.g.,
to fix specific network problems in an automated fashion), Net Inspector
can notify users about important alarms also by sending SMS (Short
Message Service) text messages through an attached mobile phone.
In addition to the standard user-based authentication mechanism and
associated access rights, Net Inspector also lets you configure and
assign different user views to users. User views differ in respect to
what managed objects they contain. This principle enables effective
delegation of the network supervision activities to different staff
members and even end-users.
Net Inspector is available in three editions. The LITE edition is a
fault management platform suitable for small networks, while the
WorkGroup and the Enterprise editions let you efficiently monitor the
status, health and performance of medium- and large-sized networks.
Net Inspector Server 2010 is available for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows operating
systems (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, and Windows 7). A version for RHEL Linux is to be
available in the near future. Net Inspector Client, on the other hand,
runs on all operating systems with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE),
version 6.0 (a.k.a. 1.6) or later. Currently supported database
management systems are PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server.
Net Inspector development has started in 1995 to provide an SNMP management
platform running on 32-bit Windows operating systems (Windows NT 3.5),
because at that time no robust and reliable SNMP management platforms
running on that OS were available on the market. This means that MG-SOFT
has been actively developing and maintaining this particular product for about
15 years already and that, as of now, the product is fully customer
proven, robust and reliable fault and performance management platform.
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MG-SOFT Net Inspector Fault and Performance Manager About the Software
MG-SOFT Net Inspector 2010 is a powerful fault and performance management
application designed for monitoring the status and performance
of managed devices and for managing alarms associated with devices
in the supervised TCP/IP network. In addition, Net Inspector
supports VoIP and NetFlow monitoring.
Net Inspector is a client/server application supporting distributed management,
meaning that two or more remote polling engines can be deployed to facilitate efficient
management of your network.
The server module continually monitors network services and important SNMP parameters
(depending on configuration) on your network devices and triggers alarms when
problems occur, e.g., if a device or service stops responding, if SNMP variable
crosses the threshold value, etc. The software has a built-in support for
monitoring the status of a variety of network services (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, SMTP,
IMAP, IMAPS, POP3, SSH, Telnet, NNTP, NNPTS, LDAP, LDAPS, IPP, LPD, MsSQL, MySQL and
Oracle service), and lets you monitor other, user-defined services.
Besides actively polling devices, Net Inspector also receives SNMP Trap
and Inform notifications, which are sent to it by managed devices when
important events occur. The software translates received SNMP notifications
to ITU X.733-compliant alarms, stores alarms in a database and dispatches information about
alarms to connected clients.
Net Inspector Client, on the other hand, is a pure Java™ application that
connects to the server through a TCP/IP connection (which can be secured through
encrypted SSH channel) and provides a graphical user interface that lets you view
and manage alarms on managed objects, monitor the status and performance statistics
of managed objects, as well as configure the client and certain parameters of the
server application. Net Inspector Client can be launched by simply clicking the
relevant link in the included Net Inspector Java Web Start page.
Net Inspector employs advanced network discovery methods and algorithms that let it
automatically discover network devices supporting SNMP or ICMP Ping protocol and
graphically present the layer 2 (physical) and layer 3 (logical) topology of the
discovered network.
MG-SOFT Net Inspector Java Client main window displaying the network topology and active alarms (left section)
and several performance management windows showing the device performance and system resource utilization
charts and data (right section).
Discovered devices are represented by icons that are automatically linked with connection
lines and mapped onto layered maps that reveal how devices are logically arranged into
networks and subnets on the IP level. The integrated scheduler can automatically run the
network discovery operation in regular intervals in order to detect new network devices
and changes in the network topology and update the Net Inspector configuration accordingly.
Due to this automatism and its user-friendly interface, Net Inspector lets you start
monitoring your network almost instantly, without any special training.
In addition to fault management, Net Inspector now incorporates also
the full-featured performance management functionality (provided by the
integrated MG-SOFT Performance Manager application), effectively
covering both essential network management areas. Advantage of the
integrated fault and performance management is that full history of
alarms and performance data is available at the central point, which
allows you to see a more realistic picture of the health of the
network and let you bring educated decisions, based on trend reports,
regarding its maintenance. Further advantage is that the integrated
system enables you to monitor virtually any parameter available
through SNMP (vendor-specific metrics, vendor-specific traps), and let
you deploy distributed polling engines that enable load balancing and
better performance of the management system. Distributed management
also makes the system easily scalable without seriously degrading its
performance, so the management system's capacity can seamlessly grow
with your network.
Besides, Net Inspector now incorporates NetFlow monitoring
that measures the amount and type of network traffic and offers detailed
IP traffic statistics identifying the applications that generate
the most traffic (in packets and bytes), endpoints (IP addresses) that receive and send
the most data, protocols that are used most, etc. This information
is obtained by collecting, analyzing and aggregating NetFlow packets
exported by the NetFlow-enabled devices. Monitoring IP traffic flows
effectively complements the standard SNMP monitoring and together they
offer a valuable insight into the network infrastructure and bandwidth
utilization and let you easily identify the causes of congestions,
determine where to apply Quality of Service, optimize resource usage, etc.
NetFlow monitoring enables more accurate capacity planning and ensures
that resources are used in accordance with your corporate goals.
Furthermore, Net Inspector also lets you monitor the VoIP Quality-Of-
Service metrics (like MOS, jitter, latency, packet loss, etc.) on
devices implementing the IP SLA VoIP jitter functionality (e.g., Cisco
routers).
The software can perform various actions when network events occur.
In addition to sending e-mails and executing arbitrary commands (e.g.,
to fix specific network problems in an automated fashion), Net Inspector
can notify users about important alarms also by sending SMS (Short
Message Service) text messages through an attached mobile phone.
In addition to the standard user-based authentication mechanism and
associated access rights, Net Inspector also lets you configure and
assign different user views to users. User views differ in respect to
what managed objects they contain. This principle enables effective
delegation of the network supervision activities to different staff
members and even end-users.
Net Inspector is available in three editions. The LITE edition is a
fault management platform suitable for small networks, while the
WorkGroup and the Enterprise editions let you efficiently monitor the
status, health and performance of medium- and large-sized networks.
Net Inspector Server 2010 is available for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows operating
systems (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, and Windows 7). A version for RHEL Linux is to be
available in the near future. Net Inspector Client, on the other hand,
runs on all operating systems with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE),
version 6.0 (a.k.a. 1.6) or later. Currently supported database
management systems are PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server.
Net Inspector development has started in 1995 to provide an SNMP management
platform running on 32-bit Windows operating systems (Windows NT 3.5),
because at that time no robust and reliable SNMP management platforms
running on that OS were available on the market. This means that MG-SOFT
has been actively developing and maintaining this particular product for about
15 years already and that, as of now, the product is fully customer
proven, robust and reliable fault and performance management platform.
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MG-SOFT Net Inspector 2010 is a powerful fault and performance management
application designed for monitoring the status and performance
of managed devices and for managing alarms associated with devices
in the supervised TCP/IP network. In addition, Net Inspector
supports VoIP and NetFlow monitoring.
