Monitoring of Windows Services with WMI in Nectus In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use WMI to monitor Windows Services. Nectus lets you create profiles that specify which services to monitor with WMI and how to send alerts related to them. The specific topics we will cover in this chapter are: What is WMI? […]
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to implement User Group based Device Access Restrictions with the help of Device Views. By assigning one of these Views to a User Group, you control which Devices the Users in that Group can see. Implementing Device View restrictions allows members of User Groups to focus on only those […]
Nectus AWS monitoring does not require root user permissions to performs it’s actions. Actually it requires a small set of permissions, so it’s more secure and reasonable to have a special AWS user’s account having that minimal set of grants. This guide will show to create such user’s account. First login to the AWS console […]
Creating User Accounts and User Groups In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create User Accounts and assign them to User Groups. You’ll also learn how to create User Groups and set their Access Rights. The specific topics we will cover in this chapter are: Creating User Accounts Creating User Groups Setting User Group Access […]
Troubleshooting of any wireless problems usually starts with determination of specific Access Point where client is currently associated with and tracking wireless client’s roaming behavior in time. Access Point detection helps to understand current RSSI levels at given selected channel and presence of alternative AP at the client’s location. Nectus provides basic tools that make locating […]
Generating Wireless Heat Maps Wireless Heat Map is the visual representation of the wireless signal levels at different locations of specific selected area. Area can be a building floor or outdoors. We read signal level directly at the antennas of the Wireless APs and calculate signal attenuation with a distance and overlay resulting signal levels […]
Enabling Monitoring for SNMP Interfaces In this chapter, you’ll learn how to enable monitoring and create monitoring groups for SNMP Interfaces. The specific topics we will cover in this chapter are: Automatic Discovery and Grouping of SNMP Interfaces Creating and Activating Monitoring Groups Creating and Customizing Monitoring Profiles Customizing Alerts Placing Interfaces in Monitoring Groups […]
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, […]
Nectus Overview
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 […]
In this post we will cover some new functionality added to Nectus in latest Wireless release. The “Wireless Client Search” allows the operator to find any wireless client by its MAC, IP address or Username. The client search is located under main menu “Tools”: In the menu, you have an option to search for a […]
In this post, we will cover the wireless heat maps and how they are created in Nectus. A heat map will allow to visualize the state of the wireless coverage and help to take decision in order to improve the coverage. Using the information from APs along with a map of physical location, you can […]
One of the key features of Nectus is ability receive SNMP traps. This allows the operator to quickly detect physical (links failures, flaps) or logical (adjacencies failures, flaps) changes in the network followed by restoration procedures or root cause analysis. Let’s see how does it work on example of this Layer 2 diagram: The SNMP […]
Nectus can monitor OpenFlow capable devices in the same way as the non-OpenFlow devices. In this article we will show how Nectus can discover and monitor switches that are SDN OpenFlow ready. We will use following sample topology for demonstration with Floodlight OpenFlow controller and three OpenFlow switches:
Under the Tools menu, there are quite a few tools that can help the operator to understand better the network, to perform troubleshooting and to gather information from devices. These are the options:
This post will cover the SysLog server functionality of Nectus network monitoring software. As with any modern network monitoring software Nectus has the ability to receive and store the syslog messages from routers, switches or servers. Syslog messages can be accessed from Top menu “Logs”: