Technically, AggreGate Network Manager is implemented as a set of plugins and drivers extending AggreGate Platform.
Some features provided by the Network Manager are just inherited from the core of AggreGate Platform. At the same time AggreGate Network Manager comprises a number of plugins and drivers that extend the basic AggreGate functionality and provide components for managing and monitoring network devices, services and applications. These components are listed below.
Covering nearly all the standard network management requirements, AggreGate Network Manager remains a highly customizable and extendable system, inheriting these merits from AggreGate Platform and its architecture.
Network Host Device Driver
Network Host Device driver is used as a basis for management and monitoring of servers, applications, and services located in IP network of any type (wired or wireless, local or global, etc.). This driver includes support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Database Device Drirver
Database Device Driver is designed for monitoring database servers and executing arbitrary SQL queries.
Network Management plugin provides network-management configuration and monitoring tools like alerts, queries and reports, charts, widgets that support availability, system performance and network performance monitoring for IP hosts, SNMP-compliant devices, databases, printers, VMware ESX servers, wireless devices, a variety of web services and applications.
Discovery plugin provides support for network discovery.
Syslog plugin provides Syslog messages monitoring and consolidation.
NetFlow plugin supports network traffic monitoring, decomposition, and analysis using NetFlow protocol.
Local File driver provides monitoring for files located on AggreGate server. Refer to Local File Monitoring for details.
Local Folder driver provides monitoring for folders located on on AggreGate server. Refer to Local Folder Monitoring for details.