nGenius Performance Manager for Flows - Key Features
- Well-known TCP- and UDP-based applications
- User-defined, custom-developed applications
- Custom application port / server associations
- Complex applications using port-ranging and port-hopping
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| NetFlow Record Packet Capture and Decode |
- Built-in capture mechanism in the nGenius Collector captures datagram from NetFlow-enabled routers
- Decodes for NetFlow v 1, 5, 7, 9
- Extended duration analysis by trace file merging
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- DHCP - Measures the round-trip time taken to discover a DHCP Server and obtain a lease
- DNS - Difference in time from when the client sends a DNS request to when it receives a reply
- ICMP Echo - Measures round trip time for how long it takes the target device to respond to an ICMP echo
- UDP Jitter (VoIP) - Measures round-trip delay; includes average jitter, or both jitter and MOS, and packet loss
- TCP Socket Connect - Difference in time from when the client sends the initial SYN to when the client sends the final ACK in the connect sequence
- Web Page Retrieval - Measures time to retrieve the specified Web page. Also measures the TCP connect time.
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- Customizable workspaces
- Single, multi-interface and enterprise-wide perspectives
- Interface, application, host, and subnet grouping
- Aggregation by router interface, site, QoS groups, router interface-QoS, site-QoS
- Custom naming for interfaces, applications and groups
- Bi-directional (in, out, in vs. out) traffic and usage monitoring
- Maximum, average and 90% baselines
- Capacity Planning views, Link Overlays, Dual Y-axis views
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| Reporting & Capacity Planning |
- On demand, ad-hoc reports for instant collaboration
- Custom-defined scheduling of NewsPaper-style reports
- Daily, weekly and monthly trend-based reporting
- Top-down analysis through drill-downs
- HTML, PDF, Web viewer, CSV and auto-email formats
- Short and long-term historical trend-based reporting
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| Alarming and Event Identification |
- Virtual interface alarming on NetFlow, QoS, Site
- Rising, falling and time-over-threshold parameters
- Auto-actions to trigger scripts and SNMP traps
- User notification by email, visual indications in viewing console and alert notification export
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- 1 minute increments - dependant on router configuration
- Database supports historically logged data for applications, hosts and conversation flows
- 15 minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and custom time range view selections
- Extendable data repository providing raw and summarized data for user-defined time durations.
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- Stand-alone and distributed server configurations
- Multi-tiered, web-based client/server access
- Standby Server option for disaster recovery
- Access control through role-based security
- Local and remote storage / accessibility of reports
- User authentication through Cisco ACS Server
- SNMP V3 support
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- nGenius Collectors
- Routers, switches and other network devices supporting RMON/RMON2, Mini-RMON, NetFlow, sFlow, JFlow, IP/SLAMIB2, Frame Relay MIB (RFC 2115), CPU & memory from Cisco devices
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- HP: Operations Manager, Network Node Manager (NNM) and Business Availability Center (BAC)
- IBM: Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Netcool/OMNIbus
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