Network Interface Monitoring Solutions from CA Nimsoft

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Network Interface Monitoring

You’re watching your network devices. You’re watching your servers. You have it all covered, right? Not always. Deep inside network packets lives a vast set of configuration details that allow system, application and network administrators to troubleshoot the most evasive problems. CA Nimsoft Monitor for Network Traffic gives you visibility into every packet crossing your server network interface cards (NICs). This allows usage trending by protocol, and integrated packet capture capabilities (PCAP).

Monitoring traffic in terms of its volume is very useful for performance and capacity planning purposes. At times, it is also useful to understand the type of traffic that is flowing through the network. In the event of an unexpected increase in traffic, it can be very helpful to analyze the traffic by protocol type, e.g. IP, ARP, RARP, and IPX, and be able to compare to previous analysis data.

CA Nimsoft Monitoring for Network Traffic inspects Ethernet packets to report the protocol being used. It also allows you to see bandwidth usage between source and destination addresses, broken down by protocol.

Key Features

Monitor the amount of bandwidth used for various Ethernet protocols and families, such as IP, ARP, RARP, IPX, TCP, UDP, and more.
Define custom profiles to monitor, using source/destination networks/IP-addresses and one or more protocol filters.
Give alarm notifications whenever a system-counter threshold or custom threshold is breached.
View network activity (bytes/packet) in real-time.
A packet-sniffer (without the content browser) to determine where the bandwidth is compromised with a powerful filtering facility.
A summary window that shows the top-n traffic clients.
Manually initiate a network dump at local or remote sites, and examine the data locally on your PC. Or, trigger an automatic dump when a desired pattern is found.
Capture standard PCAP (packet capture) files containing raw packet dumps from the remote location.
Define triggers to search for specific traffic patterns, automatically generating PCAPs based on traffic pattern match.

Benefits

Understand “baseline” and “current” network activity and protocol usage from individual hosts to help determine the root cause of problems.
Gain integrated access to detailed packet-level information to help speed up network troubleshooting.

Technical Details

Ethernet statistics, displaying

The maximum bandwidth for the network device selected on the Setup tab
The current throughput
The number of packets per second

Also the statistics for the different network protocols is displayed, including:

IP (Internet Protocol)
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
RARP (Remote Address Resolution Protocol)
IPX (Internetwork Package exchange)

IP protocol utilization, displaying the different transport protocols in a graph, including:

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)

Packet distribution graphs show the amount of different packet sizes processed.

Platform Features

Agent-optional Coverage

MM Easily monitor local or remote environments. More

Alarm Console

See, assign, and close alarms. Fast. More

Alarm Database

Accelerate problem resolution. More

APIs and SDKs

Tailor the solution to meet your unique business requirements. More

Automatic Discovery & Deployment

Keep informed of changes to your infrastructure. More

CA Nimsoft Portal

Unified view of IT performance More

Executive Dashboards

Powerful out-of-box executive views More

Flexible Pricing & Licensing

Works with your budget, and your business. More

Gateways and 3rd Party Integration

Integrate all of your IT management tools with ease. More

IT Service Level Management

Set, meet, and exceed your SLAs. More

ITIL Compatible

Best-practices. Built-in. More

Message Bus

Rest assured that your solution is future ready. More

Multi-tenant

Scale your services—efficiently and economically. More

CA Nimsoft for iPhone

A unified view, now in your pocket. More

On-Premise or SaaS

Flexibility to suit your business. More

Performance Management Database (PMDB)

Spot trends before they become problems. More

Security

Keep private data private. More

Usage-based Metering & Billing

Provide pay-as-you-grow scalability for your customers. More

Web Archive

Access the world’s largest collection of IT monitoring probes. More

SaaS and On-Premises Deployment Options

Complete Service Desk and Monitoring functionality
No upfront management hardware costs; Accelerated ROI
Reduced training and management overhead
SLA based availability
Access to CA Nimsoft operational expertise
Control and customize the CA Nimsoft management server; Easily resell
Control the physical location of data for policy, security or compliance reasons
Support remote sites with poor Internet performance

SaaS

On-Premises

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Customer Case Studies

“We initially selected CA Nimsoft because of its robust and easy-to-deploy support of our VMware infrastructure. As we consider new applications and services in SaaS and cloud environments, it’s great to know that we can make these choices without requiring any new investment in monitoring products.”

– Dave Potter
Director of IT Infrastructure at Casual Male

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