CA Nimsoft Monitor

Monitor Critical Network Services

CA Nimsoft Monitor for Network Response Time simulates real network requests to determine the availability and performance of critical network services.

CA Nimsoft Monitor for Network Response Time:

• Monitors the availability and responsiveness of DNS, NTP, DHCP, and LDAP queries.
• Detects latency problems before they become hard failures.
• Provides network administrators with the ability to diagnose issues as global or local problems.
• All response time data can be transformed into meaningful SLA reports for internal and/or external tracking and reporting.

Network Response Time Monitoring Solutions that Yield Real Dividends

With CA Nimsoft Monitor for Network Response Time, your organization can gain a range of benefits:

• Improve network availability and performance.
• Gain accurate response time information from all of your critical locations.
• Improve visibility into future capacity issues because of overburdened services.

DNS Monitoring

Supports Internet (IN) and Chaos (CH) server classes.

Supported server lookup types include:

• Normal IP Address (A)
• Mail Server (MX)
• Name Server (NS)
• Text Strings (TXT)

Monitor points include:

• DNS availability
• DNS forward lookup response time
• DNS reverse lookup response time

NTP Monitoring

Supports NTP and SNTP server types

Monitor points include:

• Lost contact with server
• Response time threshold
• Offset threshold
• Jitter threshold
• No server updated from any peer
• Server is not fully initialized

DHCP Monitoring

Monitor points include:

• DHCP server unavailable
• DCHP response time threshold

LDAP Monitoring

• Supports multiple connection methods—including normal LDAP and Secure LDAP
• Supports SIMPLE Bind and GSSAPI (Kerberos) credentials

Any desired test queries can be run and monitored for:

• Number of records found
• Query response time threshold
  • Threshold violations can also automatically trigger custom command execution