Network-1 Software & Technology, Inc.


NET1-NetPanel


P. O. Box 8370
Long Island City. NY 11101 USA

Tel: 719-590-9611
Fax: 718-590-1559


The NET1-NetPanel product was designed by the Network-1 Corporation to provide a variety of features that enhance the capabilities of the basic NetView product on both the OSF/1 - Alpha and AIX - RS/6000 platforms. The product's primary goal is to simplify the daunting task of managing the enterprise network. NetPanel meets this goal by supplying a powerful instrument-like graphical interface and a sophisticated rule-based inference engine for detecting key network events and trends.

The NetPanel graphical display allows customization of a series of instrument clusters that reflect the current state of various network devices and their attributes. The instruments include a wide variety of meters, gauges, light arrays etc., that can be directly associated to SNMP variables of all, some, or one particular network device (e.g. a router, bridge, repeater hub, etc.) These netpanels are designed and configured for use in the NetPanel Configuration application, while they are tied into the "live" SNMP traffic for real-time display with the NetPanel Display application. Both applications provide the standard Motif Windows environment and use the point and click paradigm for control. There is no practical limit to the number of netpanels that may be displayed at one time.

The NetPanel product is closely tied to the Data Collection application provided by NetView, thus using a central point for defining the SNMP polls of interest to the network manager. SNMP traps (asynchronous event signals from SNMP network devices) are also fully supported by NetPanel and its instrumentation. Historical capabilities allow you to re-play a previously stored data flow via the netpanels to assist in the trend analysis of your network.

NetPanel's inference engine is rule based and allows for the use of either the pre-defined network manager. A rule definition tool is provided that allows for the creation of new items in the rule-base, by using an easy to learn graphical interface. Additional device rules will be sent on a regular basis to those customers under a Network-1 maintenance agreement. These device rules alert the network manager to network events that range in severity from "worth noting" to "critical".


Solaris version: 2.3

Solstice application/version: N/A

Types of integration: Console Menu Interface, Data File Integration, Requires Solstice SNM or Solstice Enterprise Manager