Net-Probe 3.0.1 | 6.9MB | 2 Mirrors
One of Net-Probe's features is a web interface, allowing users to view Workspaces, Graphs and Alarms over the internet. The interface does not allow for editing of the items, that is left to the Windows Interface. Some actions can however be performed through the web, like requesting an alarm be Checked Now, or changing the Mode of a Workspace. The demo shows the power of the web interface. The demo is fully functional except that it does not allow for any actions, i.e. Change Mode, Check Now etc, will not do anything. The functions are shown in the same way they would normally.
The graphs and checks do not reflect results from actual computers or networks, but rather from simulation scripts. These scripts attempt to show what you would actually read from a network with a few problems. The network layout was from actual networks, although the names and IP's of the host and networks have been changed.
Real Time Monitoring
Net-Probe offers real time monitoring of any network connected device. It does this through a rich graphical interface available through a web browser as well as a dedicated application. Items can be monitored in two ways, either graphed or as an alarm.
Here the links of a router are depicted. The New York to Sydney link has failed.
Graphical layout
Alarms and graphs are integrated into the graphical layout. Drawing elements have been kept as simple as possible enabling for simple, quick and neat representations of the monitored environment to be setup.
This screen shot shows the monitoring of an electric fence around a golf course. This can be done using Nemtek's (www.nemtek.com) Merlin Energizer and Net-Probe.
Network layout Detection
Wizards allow for any network to be scanned and a representation of it drawn in a few easy steps. This shows the interconnection of each device.
The wizard can also automatically add alarms and graphs. This enables rapid deployment.
Alarms
• Alarms check a host or service. Below are the methods of acquiring data. You are not limited to these (see expandability below).
• SNMP
• Performance Monitor
• Scripts
- CPU Load
- DB
- DHCP
- DiskFreeCheck
- DiskFree
- DNS
- Finger
- FTP
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- IMAP
- IPChains
- IPTables
- LDAP
- MailQueue-Postfix
- MailQueue-Sendmail
- MySQL
- NNTP
- Ping
- POP3
- PostgreSQL
- Process
- ProcessCount
- Proxy
- RADIUS
- Service
- SMTP
- Users
Actions
Actions are performed when an alarm goes off. These could be notification type alerts, either graphical or sound. They could also be functions like sending an email, restarting a service etc.
This partial screen shot shows some of the Actions that can be setup.
Alerter
The Alerter is a small application that lives in your task bar and will inform you of the status of the items being monitored.
Graphs
Real time graphs can be included in the layout. The graphs are highly customizable. Like most systems in Net-Probe wizards guide you through the creation process.
Band
One graph can be selected to sit in the task bar.
Network Tools
A number of tools have been included. These include ping, traceroute, snmp browser, dns and a network scanner.
This partial screen shot shows an example of the SNMP Browser. This browser makes use of Inference which simplify viewing the SNMP tree.
Expandability
One of the methods of getting data for the alarms and graphs are scripts. Dozens of prewritten scripts have been included to measure and test most standard networked services. The source of these is open allowing you to expand or specialize them to other tasks. This makes it possible to monitor any network device. Scripts can also be added to perform specialized actions when an alarm goes off.
A simple text editor can be used to perform this advanced customization. You can use any of you favorite scripting languages as long as Windows supports it. For most users this will not be necessary.
Net-Probe will work on:
• Windows 2000 Pro/Server
• Windows XP Home/Pro
• Windows 2003 Server
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