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 […]
Note: Information is based on Nectus IP geo-location service State City IPv4 Addresses Ohio Columbus 225326103 California Los Angeles 54776440 Arizona Fort Huachuca 54644594 Texas Houston 42689210 District of Columbia Washington 32721834 New York New York City 31867103 Virginia Ashburn 31828300 Indiana Indianapolis 26421929 Georgia Atlanta 25527566 California Palo Alto 25105708 Washington Redmond 24885468 Michigan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ruckus “Antenna Info” SNMP OIDs =========================== Antenna Type (0 = 802.11bg, 1 = 802.11a, 2 = 802.11ng, 3 = 802.11na, 4 = 802.11ac) ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.3.[6.108.170.179.26.66.144].[0]’ => “2” ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.3.[6.108.170.179.26.66.144].[1]’ => “3” Antenna Gain (dB) ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.44.[6.108.170.179.26.66.144].[0]’ => “7” ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.44.[6.108.170.179.26.66.144].[1]’ => “7” Tx Power Level (0 = Full, 1 = Half, 2 = Quarter, 3 = Eighth) ‘1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.2.1.5.[6.108.170.179.26.66.144].[0]’ => […]
Support for Ruckus Wireless Controllers was added to Nectus. AP Name: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.2 AP Name: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.2 AP Model: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.4 Operation Status: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.3 (0 = Down, 1 = Up, 2,3,4 = Prep) Connected Clients: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.15 Coverage: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.59 (1 = Indoor, 2 = Indoor-Distribute, 3 = Outdoor) Connection mode: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.2.1.1.17 (0 […]
Nectus goes wireless. Starting from version 1.2.24 we added support for Cisco Wireless. Powerful dashboards and RSSI heatmaps now available to all Nectus customers. Download your copy of Nectus
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”:
Note: Information is based on Nectus IP geo-location service State City IPv4 Addresses Ohio Columbus 225326103 California Los Angeles 54776440 Arizona Fort Huachuca 54644594 Texas Houston 42689210 District of Columbia Washington 32721834 New York New York City 31867103 Virginia Ashburn 31828300 Indiana Indianapolis 26421929 Georgia Atlanta 25527566 California Palo Alto 25105708 Washington Redmond 24885468 Michigan […]
Meltdown and Spectre bugs in simple words. All modern processors have very important feature called “Speculative Execution” where CPU tries to predict all possible operations that might be required to be executed next and actually executing those without knowing for sure which one will be the next. Those guesses are called Speculative Branches. By the […]