What's new in V7

Live/Standby Management Servers

To ensure a reliable 24/7 network monitoring solution SNMPc 7.0 introduces support for live/standby management servers. An automatic failover process includes the reconfiguration of any distributed polling agents in the network. Through the new standby server feature users can continue to monitor their network if the primary system is disabled through system failure, human error or disaster.

Audit Trails

SNMPc 7.0 also delivers improved security and accountability through support for user audit trails. Any user access to the management platform or configuration changes are tracked and written to a log file. Alerts are automatically generated if an intrusion attempt is detected.

Application Service Polling

In SNMPc 7.0 customers can now poll any TCP/UDP application port and monitor the health of an application though a unique send and reply string. As an example this will allow SNMPc to monitor a Web server and ensure that the page is displayed successfully. It will also allow SNMPc to monitor the health of a database by issuing SQL queries or monitor non SNMP devices via Telnet.

'Quick' Event Filters

Management Stations, which cannot process alerts effectively, can deliver confusing or misleading information. This can increase the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) for network issues. SNMPc 7.0 addresses this issue by introducing a new simplified alert filtering system. When an alert is received users can choose for SNMPc to automatically create a filter to recognize and respond to that alert in the future.

One of SNMPc's great strengths is its ability to receive and process SNMP alerts from any device and from any vendor. In SNMPc 7.0 Castle Rock has incorporated a quick filter feature so that when an alert is received the user can instantly configure SNMPc to recognize that alert in the future and take the appropriate action. This leads to improved system implementation time and reduced ongoing system maintenance.