Numara Network Monitor Overview (PDF)

Unmanageable. Expensive. Inflexible. If that’s what you think network monitoring tools are all about ― think again. Numara Network Monitor is simple, affordable, and customizable. Now there’s no excuse for exposing your business to network outages that cost time and money – not to mention user frustration. Network Monitor continuously monitors network health and performance to help ensure availability of critical server applications and vital network resources.

With Numara Network Monitor – Less is More

With Network Monitor, you get everything you’d expect in a network monitoring tool – except high-cost and complexity. Plus, you get the flexibility you demand to customize for your environment with simple Visual Basic* scripts. Even big network monitoring challenges like SNMP trapping and Windows application services seem small with Network Monitor. Network Monitor beats the competition because it is:

• Fast and Easy to Use: Fully operational in hours, not days
• Low Cost: Fits any IT department’s budget, simple all-inclusive pricing
• Flexible: Can be customized to fit your environment and adapt to your changing business needs

Features Include:

Monitoring:

• Ping
• NT services
• NT processes
• SNMPv1 and V2 variables
• Port availability (SMTP, POP3, DNS, HTTP, FTP, NNTP, custom ports)
• NT performance counters
• Resource monitoring scripts (DHCP, DNS, Exchange, IIS, NTDS)

Notification:

• Visual & audio notification
• Record events in the Windows event log and Network Monitor log
• Run an external program
• Send alpha/numeric page
• Send an e-mail
• Send an SNMP trap
• Run customizable VB scripts*

Performance Monitoring:

• Set custom thresholds for monitored variables
• NT performance counters include: CPU utilization, memory usage, disk space and hundreds more!
• Use WMI to retrieve Windows NT-centric information
• Resource monitoring scripts specially designed to monitor DNS, DHCP, Exchange, etc.

SNMP Support:

• Monitor your managed routers
• Watch for resource overloads and bandwidth utilization
• Monitor any SNMP V1 or V2-enabled device
• Built-in MIB compiler
• Basic MIBs included to get you started
• Supports SNMP V1 and V2
• All built into one console (or ‘all-in-one console’)

NT Service and Process Monitoring:

• Monitor all your critical services like Exchange, SQL, IIS, DNS, and NT services
• Automatically restart an NT service if it stops unexpectedly
• Send notification if restart fails to page, phone, e-mail, etc.

Advanced Functionality:

• Easy to use customizable network map ( physical or logical topology) with all the tools in one console.
• Easily customizable to your specific environment through VB scripts
• Auto-discover your entire network (up to a class B range) and identify devices running IP or SNMP.
• Global settings allow quicker object configuration
• Object maintenance (current or schedulable) – determine when maintenance will take place, allowing Network Monitor to skip those scheduled objects
• Polling frequencies are customizable to the object level or at the entire enterprise level
• Object polling dependencies that allow objects not to enter an error state if an upstream dependency is not responding
• Web interface (Network Monitor Web Console) for on demand viewing of network health

*Cypress Enable visual basic script(s) included. Limited support provided