Network Troubleshooting
Corporate enterprises face increasing challenges in managing networks, including high rates of growth and change, heterogeneous technologies and services, cost constraints, and pressure to accelerate new application and service deployment. Consequently, operational risks are increasing.
The traditional approach to network management involves multiple point tools, each providing insight into a limited part of the network. Consequently, network operators find it difficult to quickly assess the impact of performance bottlenecks and network outages, to enable rapid diagnosis and troubleshooting.
OPNET nCompass™ for Enterprises provides a unified, graphical visualization of large, heterogeneous production networks, including devices, their interconnectivity, traffic, and status. nCompass for Enterprises unifies data from a wide range of network management tools, providing consolidated views for more intuitive and productive navigation and analysis. nCompass for Enterprises’s geographical network dashboard is dynamically updated with real-time operational information. Third-party tools and programmed scripts can be launched from its console for deeper drill-down and assisted troubleshooting.
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Gauges monitoring aggregated CPU utilization for key network equipment |
| LEDs displaying the up/down status of important device interfaces | |
| Time-varying graph showing interface utilization | |
| Graphical display of network topology, circuits, and link utilization | |
| Comprehensive log of key events |
Benefits
Improve service availability
When critical network outages occur, valuable time is wasted correlating information from numerous management tools to determine the source and impact of the problem. By unifying the knowledge of management tools, nCompass enables you to rapidly identify, troubleshoot, and repair network issues to improve service availability.Increase staff productivity
Subject matter expertise is commonly possessed by a small number of key individuals in the organization. nCompass captures their expertise allowing it to be leveraged by a larger audience to enhance team effectiveness and productivity.Key Features
- Unified network views of topology, configuration, traffic, and status
- Real-time situational awareness of network operations
- Assisted troubleshooting to speed remediation of critical issues
- Configurable dashboards displaying key performance metrics
- Contextual launch of 3rd party tools from a common interface
- Automatic response to network events through e-mail, pager notification, and trouble ticket system integration
- Direct access to devices to execute commands, and collect and display results