Enabling Monitoring for SNMP Devices In this chapter, you’ll learn how to enable monitoring and create monitoring groups for SNMP Devices. The specific topics we will cover in this chapter are: Automatic Discovery and Grouping of SNMP Devices Creating and Activating Monitoring Groups Creating and Customizing Monitoring Profiles Customizing Alerts Placing Devices in Monitoring Groups […]
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Nectus Feature List (October 2018) Network Discovery Basic SNMP Network Monitoring Basic SNMP Device Monitoring (CPU, RAM, TCAM, Up/Down) Basic SNMP Interface Monitoring (Errors, Dropped Packets, Traffic Volume, Utilization, Up/Down) Real Time Network Topology Visualization Windows Server Monitoring (CPU, RAM, Disk, Network, Services, Processes, Status, Up/Down) AWS Instance Monitoring and Backup (CPU, RAM, Disk, […]
Another piece of art generated by Nectus with a help of D3.JS library. Discovery of small Datacenter was completed under 3 minutes and topology generated under 5 seconds. Conversion to Visio is supported in Nectus starting from 1.2.40. Real-time Device and Link status is overlayed in this topology making it suitable for NOC level monitoring.
Keeping Track of Telco Circuits Remember that awkward moment when you discovered that you still paying for the circuit that suppose to be decommed 2 years ago? I do. Keeping track of the Telco circuit is important on many levels: financial and technical. Having Circuit ID ready and knowing where to call when circuit goes […]
Visualizing Network Topology In this chapter, you’ll learn how to generate a map of the L2 Topology for your site. An L2 Topology shows the physical connections between devices, which can be extremely useful for maintenance and troubleshooting. The topology can display real-time up/down status information along with other relevant information about the site. The […]
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Cascading Syslog Servers Introduction to the Syslog Protocol Syslog is a protocol that allows systems to send Event Notification Messages through IP networks to Syslog Servers (also known as Event Message Collectors). There the messages can be sorted, searched, and analyzed to monitor the state of individual devices as well as the overall system. Syslog […]
AWS Instance Backup Automation with Nectus Having your data backed up and secured is crucial for business-critical systems. If your servers run in AWS infrastructure, then you already have an advantage of performing backup of the hosted instances using Amazon built-in features. This can be performed manually using AWS console the following way. First, select […]
Creating Custom Dashboards In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create Custom Dashboards. Nectus lets you create an unlimited number of Custom Dashboards, making it easy to focus on exactly the information you need at any time. This chapter covers how to: Create a New Custom Dashboard Add Widgets Manage Widgets Manage Dashboards Available Widgets […]
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Create an Outage Map In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create and use Outage Maps. An Outage Map is a graphical representation of the status of the Sites in your organization. Using real world maps and GPS coordinates, an Outage Map instantly shows you outages for any of your Sites in any region of […]
Network and Server Uptime Calculation Considerations for Monitoring tools Uptime is one of the most important IT infrastructure operational metrics that gives an overview how “stable” or “reliable” your IT infrastructure is with 99.9999% uptime being a platinum standard. But how do you calculate an Uptime? In ideal (continuous and none-discrete) world calculation of Uptime […]
Creating Hierarchical Site Structure in Nectus In this chapter you’ll learn how to create a Hierarchical Site Structure in Nectus and populate it with Devices. This activity is fundamental to using Nectus. Specifically, you will learn how to: Create a New Site Delete a Site Move a Site Add a Device to a Site Delete […]
Edit Site Properties You can easily edit the properties of any existing Site. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to edit the properties of an existing Site. We’ll also discuss the functions of each editable property. Opening the Edit Site Properties Dialog Box It takes just a few clicks to open the Edit Site Properties […]
Support for monitoring Aruba wireless controllers was added to most recent release of Nectus NMS. It brings visibility to most loaded wireless APs, SSIDs and controllers. It displays basic antenna info, current AP channels, gives list of rogue APs and rogue clients and allows generation of Wireless HeatMaps over floorplans.
After support for wireless devices was added in Nectus, specific monitoring dashboards were created to track any change that can affect the wireless users, controllers or access points. The wireless dashboards are vendor specific and this is where you can find the dashboard for Cisco wireless devices: The focus of this article is on Cisco […]