Advanced Network Performance Monitoring

SwitchMonitor Pro monitors utilization and errors on interfaces attached to managed hubs, managed switches, routers, servers, firewalls, network printers, and other network devices.

Many features are included to help make your job easier: network inventory, support contract information tracking, and device uptime reporting.

SwitchMonitor Pro provides you with the ability to:

• Check utilization on interfaces
• Fix errors on interfaces
• Schedule switch equipment downtime
• Find switch OS version information
• Track overall network utilization
• Work the issue list
• Locate interfaces with the highest error rate
• Find highest transmitters/receivers
• Monitor WAN and Internet links on routers
• Watch utilization on server interfaces
• Take an inventory of your network equipment
• Track equipment support contracts
• Check network device uptime/stability
• Schedule server outages
• Track abnormal network usage

Quickly Identify & Understand Performance Issues

SwitchMonitor Pro provides network performance information on every interface on your network. Instantly know which interfaces are over-utilized, and which interfaces have too many errors.

Information Anywhere

You need to be able to securely access your network performance information wherever you are: Wweb browser, PocketPC, or Cellphone. Staying informed no longer means monitoring screens all day in an operations center. Teleworking from a remote site is made easier with a low-bandwidth optimized user interface.

Full-Featured PocketPC Interface

All features that are available via the web interface are available on the PocketPC web interface. Being completely mobile provides you with the ability to resolve problems rapidly while still in the field. No more running back to a desktop just to check network statistics.

Monitor WAN and Internet links

SwitchMonitor Pro can monitor utilization and errors on router interfaces. This will allow you to keep track of performance on your Internet and other WAN links that are connected to your router. Each interface will have utilization tracked daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly so you can watch overall trends of your usage and determine when you should consider adding or reducing bandwidth.

Create a Self-Documenting Network

SwitchMonitor Pro collects and displays the OSI services that each device reports. This lets you rapidly and accurately determine the purpose and function of each network device without having to perform a manual inventory. Each device on your network is also interrogated for for information about its OS version, location, and administrative contact. This provides an efficient method to track device inventory information across the enterprise. Inventory information can be downloaded in CSV format for importing into spreadsheets for even greater reporting capability.

Track Equipment Support Contracts

A network emergency is no time to be searching for service contract information. SwitchMonitor Pro keeps track of service contracts for each of your network devices. This means that your service contract information is easily accessible from wherever you are. You'll always know when service contracts are due to expire before they've expired because SwitchMonitor Pro will send out a monthly service contract report keeping you abreast of your contract status. In addition, a reminder email is sent one month prior to each service contract's expiration, preventing lapses in support contracts.

Know Network Uptime

Each device reports how long it has been online and servicing the network. This determines the general reliability and stability of your network hardware. Being familiar with this statistic helps you to evaluate when equipment should be replaced or serviced.

Complete End-to-End Monitoring

Tracking errors on all interfaces on your network provides you with an unabridged vision of your network's health. Monitoring server interfaces permits detecting errors on server NICs (like duplex issues or collisions).

Outage Scheduling Made Easy

Monitoring server interfaces for usage means that you can easily know when there's no usage on servers. This makes scheduling an outage very easy because you can easily predict when there will be low usage on the server.

Detect abnormal usage

Watching your Internet link's usage can help you to detect abormal usage. Typically, most Internet links have a lot of inbound traffic flows; servicing web browsers and other inbound information requests. If you notice that there are strange outbound traffic flows during certain hours, you may be able to detect inappropriate usage (like a hacker or illegal file sharing) on your network. You can use SwitchMonitor Pro to track the utilization back to the specific interface (by checking each interface on your switch for a matching pattern of utilization) and thus locate the specific machine that is generating the traffic.