NetSpot is an open test network monitoring software. This application keeps tracking for slow or failing services and nodes across the network, and then notifies specified authorities. NetSpot monitoring system scans the network for problems caused by overloaded or crashed servers, network connections or other devices. The interface test system is especially important with regard to effective bandwidth management. This software is the main monitoring system last 8 years in a few ISP located in Eastern Europe. Our team is constantly making improvements and upgrades to this software.
Open Test System gives you the opportunity to create custom network tests according to your needs.
Netspot have four groups of tests.
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PING ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to check network hosts presence. You can create multiple ping tests with different values of timeout, retries.
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PORT Test communication endpoint of specific process or a type of network service. You can create custom port tests with various timeout and retries.
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SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) based tests. Adding SNMP OID with expected range of values is the main idea of this type of tests. You can use them to track your devices alarms, warnings, abnormal working temperatures, high CPU loads, disk spaces or any other SNMP value comparison tests.
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INTERFACE Tests are based on SNMP interface counters.
You can set Interface Min or Max traffic, packets, broadcast, errors or discards values.
Every test have his own messaging options which defines the way they will notify you to alarm events.
Netspot notification system is used to warn users for alarm events in their subscription area. You can use different notification settings in every test. There are 3 ways of notification in Netspot, depending on the severity of alarms.
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SMS with mail to sms service
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Mail with external SMTP service
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Voice call messages are generated automatically by text to speech software amd delivered by GSM gateway. This makes this Netspot Notification System independent from any network fail.
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Generic SNMP data visualisation.
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Position management organized by Location and Area.
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You can build links between your nodes in order to visualize your network area into a topology graph.
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Every node can have multiple custom SNMP and interface graphics.
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Here you can assign different PING, PORT, SNMP or interface tests.
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You can skip the host for a period of time.
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It is also possible to attach device backups to this system.
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Automatic host discovery system.
Open Graph System allows you to create multiple custom SNMP Graphs. In Netspot you have access to writing your own RRD graph options, making any SNMP graph template you may need. This gives you an opportunity to specify the visual style or refine values or measurements of your graphics. We have a few predefined ready to use graph templates. In the Node section, you can assign graph templates to your host.
Logging is available at every user action, messaging system and nodes testing results. You can track your user actions. When are logged, what changes they made? You can see what types of messages, to whom and when are generated. SNMP, SMTP and RRD errors and fails are also logged to the system.
Maps will help you visualize your network fails in geographical areas. You can create new locations and areas in this section. You can skip multiple host tests by skipping the entire location. You can check which hosts are members of the location. You see active alarms or nodes to any given location on the map.
The topology or network connections graph is created by defining links between Nodes. You can quickly see which host is a parent and how alarms are distributed over your devices in the topology. Network topology is visualized by showing the backbone network plus selected area. This way you can always see how your area is connected to the backbone of the network. Dividing your network into areas will make it simple to observe and evaluate only the part of the network you are interested in.
The user subscription and messaging system provide ways to distribute problems in different areas over different employees. Netspot will trigger message to any person which is subscribed to the area which has a failed node.