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PacketTrap Perspective provides network management tools for Cisco

By // October 10, 2008, 6:55 AM PST

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  • PacketTrap Perspective Network Discovery

    Cisco blogger David Davis walks you through PacketTrap's new network management platform, Perspective.

    The first step with PacketTrap's new Perspective network management package is to configure the settings for discovering network devices.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Network Discovery

    Perspective lists the information discovered for each network device, including which devices have SNMP and WMI enabled.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Network Discovery

    Perspective Smart Policies recognizes the network devices by type and automatically assigns them to corresponding policy groups.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Networking Policy

    When you select Networking Policy, you will see the data collection monitors for your selected device. Here, you can see that syslog files and Cisco Netflow will be collected, and that a backup of the Cisco configuration file will automatically run daily.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Configuring Alerts

    You can configure alerts to be sent when certain conditions are met. Here is an alert set up to notify IT when utilization hits a certain level.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Dashboards

    You can design your own monitoring dashboard with gadgets. This one monitors wireless activity on your network.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Dashboards

    Here, the dashboard displays more customized information with the use of gadgets. Perspective allows for unlimited dashboards and gadgets.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Configuration Alert

    Perspective monitors device configuration file changes and sends alerts when the files have been changed.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Baselines

    Perspective automatically keeps performance baselines of network interfaces and all other data collected on the tagged devices.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Graphs

    Perspective displays easy-to-read graphs that visually alert you to possible performance problems.

  • PacketTrap Perspective NetFlow Data

    Perspective uses Cisco NetFlow data to tell you what applications are traversing a router and the utilization those applications are taking up.

  • PacketTrap Perspective NetFlow Graph

    Here, the Netflow data shows us the utilization of a single network conversation, traversing a router's interface.

  • PacketTrap Perspective Config Checks

    Perspective points out differences between Cisco configurations by checking the list of backup files it has made of your Cisco devices.

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PacketTrap Perspective Network Discovery

Cisco blogger David Davis walks you through PacketTrap's new network management platform, Perspective.

The first step with PacketTrap's new Perspective network management package is to configure the settings for discovering network devices.

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