- Serial-over-IP
- Programmable
- Device Management
- Terminal/Sniffer
- OEM/ODM
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Solutions > Network Management > Router/Switch Monitoring Router and Switch MonitoringAggreGate Network Manager automates the job of constantly monitoring business-critical routers, switches, access points and base stations. It offers extended support and integration for popular hardware vendors such as Cisco, 3Com, Alcatel, Nortel, Juniper and others. Furthermore, the Network Manager provides industry-leading support for custom SNMP implementations that use private enterprise MIB structures. Traffic/Bandwidth Monitoring
The system collects real-time traffic and bandwidth usage percentage metrics from individual router/switch ports. Traffic data is stored in the database to be later used for building charts and reports. Network Manager is optimized to keep and quickly access long-term trends for thousands of network interfaces. This helps to build averaged charts for hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly traffic/bandwidth usage. Unlike similar plaforms, AggreGate Network Manager's architecture provides fully customizable charts and reports. It's possible to combine traffic from several ports and even devices on a single chart, add moving average or linear regression trends to facilitate capacity planning, and more. Scheduled Traffic ReportingTraffic and bandwidth usage reports may be scheduled for periodic emailing to system administrator or other persons. Reports may be sent in PDF, HTML, RFT, Excel, and other formats. High Bandwidth Utilization AlertsAggreGate Network Manager may trigger an alert if interface's bandwidth utilization percentage exceeds certain threshold. The alert notifications may be delivered via email, SMS, and other methods. Traffic Decomposition and AnalysisIn addition to retrieving simple per-port traffic metrics via SNMP, the Network Manager can collect and process traffic data using NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX. See Traffic Monitoring for more information. Interface Status Monitoring
Every managed switch and router provides real-time information about status of its network interfaces via SNMP. The Network Manager collects port/interface status information from monitored devices to provide per-device and global port status reports. When a network interface goes down for some reason, one of the following alerts is generated:
Other Performance MetricsAll standard router health and performance metrics are collected by default, including availability, response time, CPU load, memory usage, fan speed, etc. A lot of tools are provided for analyzing these metrics:
Moreover, AggreGate Platform provides unique functionality for setting up alerting, querying, reporting and charting on custom performance indicators (such as WiMAX signal strength). Router/Switch Discovery and MappingNetwork discovery process finds all routers and switches in the scanned network, creates device accounts for them, and applies optimal monitoring profiles for all ports/interfaces. If discovered routers are later added to a dynamic network map, each device is accompanied with several mission-critical metrics shown on the map right next to the device image. Custom Asset Information
AggreGate Network Manager is a very flexible IT asset tracking solution. In addition to specifying pre-defined asset tracking data (serial number, model, location, notes, etc.), it's possible to associate custom data in user-defined format with every router, switch, or other IT asset. Cisco Equipment SupportCisco network devices provide more detailed and precise versions of "standard" metrics (CPU load, fan speed, etc.) via non-standard SNMP MIBs. These metrics are directly supported by built-in alerts, reports, charts, and other data processing facilities. For example, Cisco-specific alerts include:
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