Introducing EtherPeek NX!"
EtherPeek NX brings the power of NetSense Expert Analysis to WildPackets' award-winning EtherPeek technology. Combining EtherPeek's familiar feature set and award-winning UI with the problem detection heuristics, expert mapping, and diagnostic capabilities of NetSense!", WildPackets delivers another powerful, affordable tool for helping you manage your network.

Real-time Expert Analysis
The Expert Analysis system provides automated problem identification. It evaluates and analyzes all 7 layers of the OSI model, separates packets into independent conversations and displays them in intuitive tree structure. Analyzing each network device, the system isolates and describes behavior indicative of network, client, server, router, or infrastructure problems. EtherPeek NX records the error condition, allows a quick display of relevant packets, provides explanation of why the error occurred, and what can be done to correct it. The Expert Analysis system tracks more than three dozen separate problem behaviors, and provides latency and throughput analysis.

Expert Mapping
The EtherPeek NX Peer Map is drawn as a vertically-oriented ellipse, able to grow to the size necessary to show all communicating nodes within your network. Reading the peer map is easy: the thicker the line between nodes, the greater the traffic; the bigger the dot, the more traffic through that node. The number of nodes displayed can also be limited to the busiest and/or active nodes, or to any EtherPeek NX filters that may be in use.

Features
Expert ProblemFinder
Allows user to customize behavior of expert system in order to tailor it to the characteristics of his or her own network. ProblemFinder also provides descriptions, causes, and remedies for each of the problem conditions the expert system encounters.

Threshold Assistant
Allows the user to quickly adjust problem solver values by choosing network speed, and using built-in real world networking experience algorithms.

Multiple capture windows
Each capture window can have its own filters, expert analysis, peer map, etc. Useful for monitoring different application servers, comparing traces for client and server, and starting new captures to isolate problem devices while maintaining network capture buffer simultaneously.

Enhanced Alarms
EP NX provides over 100 real-time conditions tracked by the alarm system. NX has added the ability to set 3 conditions - Suspect, Problem, and Resolved - providing finer control over when a particular condition should be considered informational, minor, major, or severe.

Select Related filtering
This exclusive feature provides a one-click means of extracting the precise packets the user is looking for. The user can quickly select the packets corresponding to specific hosts, protocols, conversations, and even expert problem reports.

Developers Kit
Includes a plug-in wizard to enable you to create custom analysis modules and the tools necessary to develop specialized decodes.

Improved Windows Decodes!

News
WildPackets Launches EtherPeek NX!"
High-end Analyzer Delivers Real-time, Real-world Expert Diagnostics
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Reviews
Get to Know Your Network
"EtherPeek NX is a breeze to use, and the data it can provide is astounding."
InfoWorld, November 29, 2001
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Solving the Budget Problem
"A new breed of sniffer, notably WildPackets EtherPeek NX, decodes packets and analyzes them in real time, allowing network administrators to identify problems more quickly and keep traffic flowing smoothly."
InfoWorld, November 29, 2001
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Maintenance Program
When you purchase EtherPeek NX, one year of Level I Maintenance is included in the purchase price. WildPackets' Maintenance Program provides enhanced levels of service and extends the benefits and product update period (Level II and Level III Maintenance). More...

Hardware requirements:
To minimize the chance of packet capture loss and to optimize EtherPeek's overall performance, a 400 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM is the minimum system requirement for 10 Mbit Ethernet, and a 600 MHz processor with 256 MB RAM or better is the recommended configuration.

Resources

EtherPeek NX Data Sheet

EtherPeek NX FAQ

White Papers