Monitor and troubleshoot critical areas of the network with probes. Network Instruments offers a complete line of probes that monitor network activity across multiple topologies. Network Instruments hardware probes support LAN, WAN, gigabit, and 802.11 a/b/g, and have the option to support RMON and HCRMON. Hardware probes report to Observer consoles located anywhere on the network for distributed visibility.

Device Performance

Quickly identify which devices, routes, and IP services are up or down and how they are performing. OI automatically detects and reports on device health using flow technologies including SNMP, WMI, WSD, IP SLA, NBAR, and WAAS. Use synthetic transactions to regularly assess the health of critical services. Intuitive graphs and table-based displays make it easy to manage IP services and the underlying infrastructure. All data is stored for long-term trending and analysis.

Route Performance

Business Performance

Use business groups to track the impact of devices and resources on business services and processes. Organize network devices into specific subsets based on geography, department, device type, application service, or any other basis. Combined with alarms, they allow instant visibility into the area of the business needing attention.

• Prioritize problems based upon their impact on business processes

• Review reports, monitor resources, track inventory by business group

• Drill within groups for easy sub-level analysis

Performance Management

Seamlessly integrate Observer Infrastructure into ORS for a complete and aggregated view of performance. Track and correlate infrastructure health side-by-side with network and application views.

• Easily assess impact of infrastructure performance on overall enterprise

• Improve problem solving by isolating issue to application, network, or device

• View device performance in context of overall network and application performance

• Enhance planning capabilities by matching capacity trends with underlying devices details

• Autobaseline infrastructure metrics; be alerted to degrading performance

Discovery and Mapping

OI active discovery generates a map of any segment or group of systems on the network. The simple and effective interface provides a real-time, continuous visual grade of response times and health on all network assets and routes.

Map local and remote networks of any size

• Verify at a glance which devices are up or down

• Prioritize device problems based on their business impact

• Export device maps to Visio

Monitor Routes

• Track response for hops and routes between OI and any IP-based device

• Establish route maps and be alerted to changes and delay

• Record uptime/response time and route flapping for QoS and SLA verification

Event Notification

OI is alarms are highly customizable. Set alarms and adjust thresholds to alert you instantly to problems or changes in critical devices and routes.

• View alarms by business group or route

• Drill down for device status details

• Graph and compare alarm data over time

• Set alarms on SNMP and WMI objects