smartBridges now offers a customized InterMapper® solution to help telcos, carriers and businesses achieve high wireless network availability through proactive network management and monitoring.
Reduce Downtime
With the customized InterMapper from smartBridges, you can check the health of your Nexus network on a continual basis. Potential problems are highlighted before the network gets noticeably affected.
1. SNMP Probes and Ping Responses
InterMapper uses industry standard SNMP probes to retrieve detailed status and diagnostic data from networked devices. Its SNMP probes query devices to collect a number of data variables that describe a device, its current operational state, traffic information (bytes and packets per second, error counts, utilization) for the interfaces, as well as the devices' DNS name and IP address, uptime, availability, packet loss statistics, round-trip time, and more.
Figure 1-In depth analysis of ping tests allows one to predict the impact
of performance on overall availability
Furthermore, ping tests are conducted by sending a short packet to a remote device and waiting for a return response. No device status data is collected. Rather, InterMapper measures the percentage of ping responses over time. What is the fraction of packets lost over a three hour period? Obviously, a 100% return rate is very good. A 90% return rate indicates that something is seriously wrong — if 10% of packets are not getting through, customers will complain of slow response times.
2. Customized smartBridges Probes
InterMapper has several smartBridges specific probes that enhance the basic SNMP probes and gather advanced, crucial information. InterMapper probes are applicable for all smartBridges equipment.
These probes display signal levels, the number of people connected to an access point, different link-level statistics, and other management data that helps pinpoint, define and track potential network problems.
This information makes it easier to determine the status of devices and predict the impact of performance issues on overall availability. Additionally, InterMapper color codes the devices on its maps by severity, making it extremely easy to note potential network. Red indicates a device is down, green indicates the device is performing well, with yellow and orange showing levels of performance degradation.
This additional data enables administrators to focus immediately on underperforming devices and plan maintenance or upgrades for devices or segments that are regularly over utilized.
Figure 2 - Customized Nexus probes allow IT managers
to plan network maintenance and future upgrades
Intuitive, Easy to Use GUI
Customizable, dynamic maps provide real time view of traffic flow and device status to highlight trouble spots and outages. Furthermore, the easy-to-use Data Charting Graph gives an Integrated Network View and Statistics.
Figure 3 - The user friendly GUI shows you clearly the status of the network,
using color coding to identify trouble spots
Monitor from Anywhere, Anytime
View maps sitting at home, at an Internet café or any other location with an Internet access. Using a standard web browser, the built-in InterMapper client, or the optional InterMapper Remote Access, you can manage the network on the move.
Figure 4 - Check the status of your network using a web browser from anywhere in the world
Network Expansion Planning
The acquisition of new network equipment and services should be directed by trends in usage and performance, not constant problem reports or failure. With InterMapper, you'll maintain network operations while expanding and improving network capacity according to organizational growth and need.
For example, InterMapper will use an orange color code on a link to indicate that the link between a router and a server is at 90% or more of capacity. This connection is overloaded.
Figure 5 - See which links are overloaded and plan for future upgrades
InterMapper runs on: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, MacOSX, Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE, and other Linux distributions.
Intermapper works with all smartBridges equipment.
InterMapper® is a registered trademark of Dartware, LLC Copyright ©2006
