Monitor & manage networks, applications, data centers and clouds

• Built-in support for over three thousand network devices, computers, applications and data center infrastructure elements.
• Rich managed device or application plugin library, extensible with plugins developed by third parties.
• Module manager for managing loaded plugins and setting discovery order.
• Generic support of SNMP (v1, v2 and v3).
• Support for loading SNMP MIBs from MIB files.
• Support for browsing SNMP OIDs from MIB files loaded.
• Support for other management protocols such as: IPMI , telnet/CLI, MODBUS , ASCII, CORBA, SQL, WMI, RMI and others.
• Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom plugin development.
• Support of wide range of network elements:
  • Unix, Linux and Windows hosts: availability, network interface statues, network traffic, CPU loads, memory and storage usage, process monitoring.
  • Network switches and routers: management interface accessibility, port statuses, network traffic on ports (unicast and non-unicasts), Forwarding Database (monitoring MAC addresses on ports), performance statistics e.g. CPU loads, temperature as per vendor MIB.
  • Feature-rich management plugins for Cisco  network devices.
  • Brocade (formerly Foundry Networks) routers with MPLS support.
  • Juniper plugins for: switches, firewalls and routers (includes BGP monitoring).
  • Remote Access Servers: Juniper BRAS (Broadband Remote Access), Acme Packet Net-Net series and others.
  • Adva Optical Networking Fiber Platform devices - FSP3000 WDM system.
  • ATM switches (e.g. Marconi/Fore): interface statuses, network traffic, network clock synchronization, network clocks reconfiguration on failures
  • VoIP systems: BroadSoft Broadworks Platform, Nuera VoIP Gateway, Quintum Tenor Call Relay and others.
• Support of storage/SAN devices including fibre channel switches, RAIDs , controllers and tape libraries using SNMP, IMPI or command line interface.
• Support of wide range of applications such as:
  • Application servers: Apache Tomcat , IBM WebSphere , JBoss  and others.
  • WWW and communications servers: Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) , Microsoft Exchange  and Microsoft Active Directory .
  • Applications based on the Microsoft .NET Framework .
  • Standalone, J2SE (standard edition) Java applications .
  • Middleware and transaction brokers: IBM WebSphere MQ , ActiveMQ, Tuxedo and others.
  • Databases: Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server , MySQL , PostgreSQL  and others.
• Virtualization awareness and support for VMware  and Citrix.
• Data center infrastructure support:
  • Power supplies (UPS), UPS events tracing e.g. battery low, backup mode, input/output voltages, current, power, battery capacity, power distribution units (PDU) and air conditioning devices (e.g. Emerson ).
  • Data center monitoring devices (e.g. Poseidon ).
• IP video cameras, e.g. Sanyo, IQEye and others.
• Physical access control systems, e.g. Suprema BioStar  and others.

Please contact us for detailed information on currently supported devices.

• Multiple, user-configurable dashboards - instantly visualize and update status of managed systems .
• Hierarchical view of managed elements such as logical blocks of a service: databases, static content, physical nodes, virtual machines and others.
• Standard and user-defined hierarchies.
• Business view aspects (e.g. service aspect with status propagation and notifications).
• Compound devices (e.g. a host with interfaces, a host with applications running).
• Visualization of backbone devices.
• Flexible, user-configurable rules for status calculation for compound devices.
• Per node/compound device dashboards in hierarchy views.
• Map views: Internet maps (Yahoo!) and user defined map images with zoom, panning and GPS coordinates.
• Auto layout of objects on maps.
• Drag and drop support to build hierarchy and assign elements to view aspects and maps.
• Visualization of device dependencies and links.
• Network interfaces management and inventory (managed and unmanaged interfaces, naming interfaces, tracking history of interface status).
• Visualization and inventory of networks.

• Wide range of built-in sensors including: PING, SNMP, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, WMI, SMTP, TCP port, DNS, SNMP OID and others.
• Custom (module defined) sensors: Oracle instance, MySQL instance, JMX and others.
• Multiple sensor thresholds.
• Multiple levels of response times aggregation.
• Graphical presentation of sensor responses.
• Scheduled and on-demand (operator initiated) sensor probing.
• Per-device intervals for sensors.

• Multiple network element discovery mechanisms (IP network scan, SNMP scan) with ability to provide custom, user-defined discovery methods.
• Operator-initiated or scheduled discovery procedures.
• Hierarchical discovery (e.g. when a multi-interface device is discovered all sub-nets on the interfaces are scanned).
• Discovery exclusions.
• Discovery of applications on hosts (e.g. Oracle database).
• Discovery of multiple objects on a single IP (e.g. interface, operating system and applications).
• Multiple discovery options, e.g. discovery of all or backbone only interfaces, subnets and others.
• Scanning networks with multiple credentials (e.g. multiple SNMP read communities).

• On-screen message and sound notification.
• SMS (via gate or modem), e-mail, IM and user-defined notifications with user-defined severity and frequency criteria.
• Notification manager for easy notification configuration.
• Message templates for easy customization of e-mail and SMS notifications.

• SNMP and syslog collectors.
• A number of built-in correlation rules such as: de-duplication, pair-wise, scheduled maintenance and others.
• Compound event support (i.e. a user may define conditions on a number of simple events and correlate them into a single one).
• Time rules support such as event frequency.
• Filtering, blocking and event thresholds.
• Rules engine for providing user-defined correlation rules.
• Rules order priority setting.

• Full case manager functionality.
• Assignment of alarms (or their groups) to responsible users.
• Automatic clearing of alarm statuses.
• Support for severity levels and escalation chains.

• Performance counter template library.
• Support for 64-bit counters (SNMP and non-SNMP) required for monitoring of high-speed links such as Gigabit Ethernet.
• Graphical representation of performance measurement results.
• GUI management of performance counters (create, delete, modify, suspend and others).
• Multiple aggregation levels for performance data.
• User-configurable retention times for historical data.
• Individual collection intervals for each defined counter.
• Arithmetic operations on performance counters (e.g. link saturation = link speed / bytes transferred).
• Baselining and baseline-triggered alarms.

Multiple Verax NMS instances can be configured in a tree-like, master-slave umbrella monitoring structure. Umbrella monitoring can be used by:

• Managed service providers for managing their clients' infrastructure with:
  • no client firewall configuration,
  • low bandwidth required for management,
  • no monitoring agents required on managed client infrastructure.
• Geographically distributed enterprises with multiple branch offices.
• Telecommunications operators to manage regional, state and national networks.

Features

• A single master can monitor multiple slaves.
• Monitoring of all or selected objects on a slave such as devices, interfaces, applications and business aspects.
• A single slave can be monitored by multiple masters; each master can monitor different objects on the slave.
• Unlimited hierarchy depth level.
• Ability to monitor slave systems behind NAT/firewalls with no configuration required on a firewall (firewall traversal functionality built into the system).
• Object status, event and alarm forwarding with fully configurable rules (e.g. forward only critical alarms).
• Alarm status synchronization between master and slave (i.e. when an alarm is cleared on a slave, it is also automatically cleared on a master).
• Password-secured master-slave connection.

• Configuration file database (per each device type).
• User or system initiated, configuration save and load operations on a single or a group of devices.

• Generate reports in PDF, CSV or XLS formats.
• Graphically design report templates.
• Schedule report generation times.
• Set report retention times.
• Rich, predefined reports including:
  • IN/OUT traffic summaries on key network interfaces.
  • Top 10 (highest traffic) interfaces and devices for last hour, day and week.
  • Excessive network traffic alarm summary for last hour, day and week.
  • List of unknown MAC addresses that appeared on the network in last 24 hours.
  • List of MAC addresses changing their switch interface assignment (i.e. connected to various locations on the network).
  • Interfaces with top status changes (from up to down and vice versa).
  • WAN usage link reports.
  • Summary of changes in device inventory.
  • Change comparison reports for select counters in last days and weeks.

Please click on images below to view sample reports.

• Credential manager for secure management of login credentials such as SNMP passwords, WMI logins and others.
• Security profiles associated with each user defining: password strengths, session timeouts, idle timeouts and others.
• Network view limitations defined on a per-user basis.
• Security audit log providing full information on user logins (timestamp, host IP address, success, failure), logouts and denied operations with a graphical interface.
• Event log for tracing system and user events (e.g. new object added, object deleted, etc.).
• Logging & tracing services configurable at runtime.
• Secure communications bus between client and server, ensuring that all exchanged data is encrypted.

• Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom plugin development. The SDK contains:
  • SDK Guide for developers
  • JavaDoc API documentation
  • Libraries (Java .jars) required to build a plugin
  • Examples (Java source code ready to be compiled)
• Scripted, user-defined rules across the system for elements such as: event correlation, status checking, automated actions and others.
• User-defined and scheduled reports.
• Open for integration and SOA-ready via RMI and SOAP interfaces.
• Seamless integration with Verax Trouble Ticketing - helpdesk, support and SLA management.

• Customizable look and feel.
• User friendly, rich GUI based on Rich Internet Application technology.
• Support for full screen mode, high-resolutions, multiple displays and panel hiding - ready to be deployed at Network Operations Centers (NOCs).
• Sound and animation operator feedback.
• Online, contextual help system.
• Multilingual user interface changeable at runtime.
• Filters, incremental search, mini-dashboards, statistics in each main view for maximum operator productivity.
• System log and configurable tracing levels for easy troubleshooting and support.
• Smartphone access client for Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian.

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