Technical Detail

In a single software solution, netPrefect™ provides the ability to monitor and control every device on a network, regardless of its make and model, location, platform or traffic type. In the majority of cases, organisations have multiple solutions in place to deliver what netPrefect™ provides through one solution, with a single, easy to use, graphical user interface.

netPrefect™ is functionally-rich and has been designed to deliver enterprise-class capabilities and performance. It can be effectively deployed in any organisation where availability, quality and security are mission critical, and to improve network efficiency, extend product lifecycles and reduce total cost of ownership.

netPrefect™ provides both in-band and out-of-band monitoring options across local, wide and remote connections. netPrefect™also supports SNMP, and a wide range of other protocols.

netPrefect™ enables organisations to extract greater business value from their IT infrastructure by enabling:

In-depth control of all devices on the network, from a single point of access
In-built user defined alerts, to predict trends and enhance productivity
Dynamic, automated logs for compliance
Flexible licensing models
Greater productivity, by managing network devices from a central console

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Architecture

netPrefect™ can bring all of the serial consoles together, onto a single management system in a single location, while allowing access to each of the consoles from multiple systems in multiple locations. At the same time, more modern management mechanisms, such as the SNMP and WMI protocols, may be used to manage devices in the DataCenter.

Alert Notification

Alerts are generated with the state relative to the event that triggered them. Alert generation can be suppressed if repeat alerts occur within specific time spans. Alerts are assigned ISO severity values in the range Indeterminate, Clear, Warning, Minor, Major, Critical. Alerts can be classified against user defined sub-systems, e.g. performance, network, etc.

Appliances

A range of purpose built preconfigured appliances.

Business Continuity

Install netPrefect™ on multiple servers to ensure business continuity in the event of loss of the primary server. netPrefect™ can be clustered to provide failover and load balancing support.

CMDB

Use the flexible auto discovery and query techniques provided by netPrefect™ to discover network and device configuration for input to your CMDB.

Compliance

In recent years, government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA have been introduced, and with them entirely new headaches for IT professionals. Security requirements are now defined by law. Comprehensive and complete logs of all user activity and security events are now needed, not only to enforce security policy, but to provide accountability and audit trail.

Configuration Backup

For those devices that have the capability to upload their configuration data via TFTP, netPrefect™ has an inbuilt TFTP server allowing you to execute periodic commands on your managed devices that perform the upload of configuration.

Console Access

netPrefect™ is not just about monitoring. Give your users privileges to connect to the console views of the managed devices, and allow them to interact with the devices, fixing any issues interactively, with all interaction logged and audited.

Dashboard

See exactly how many issues you have at a glance using the dashboard in the User Interface.

Device Management

netPrefect™ can monitor and manage devices/applications via a variety of built-in mechanisms.

Educational Videos

In order to allow you to understand more about how to install and configure netPrefect™ we have created a series of videos.

Event Detection

netPrefect™ converts all captured data from its native format to plain text. This allows events to be detected easily, by specifying the unique text pattern that identifies them.

Forecasting

Monitor the usage of critical resources over time, and plan for future requirements to ensure that you have budget in place when expenditure is required.

In-Band and Out-of-Band

By combining in-band and out-of-band management in a single solution, netPrefect™ enables your business to significantly increase the availability, quality and security of the services you deliver.

Logging and Audit

In order to provide comprehensive auditing capability, netPrefect™ maintains logs of system activity including Captured managed resource data, Detected events, Detected alerts and netPrefect™ user interaction

Management Packs

Install management packs for your hardware/software type and automatically start monitoring your chosen device type.

Multi-Platform / Appliance

netPrefect™ is developed in Java, giving total flexibility in choice of platform, enabling you to fit it to your business model.

Release History

These pages denote new features present in each netPrefect™ release. Browse the sub pages to learn about the new and exciting progress that we have made with product development.

Remote Desktop

Connect In-Band to your managed devices via their native Remote Desktop functionality

Reporting

Provide your Users/Customers with customised web reports of their managed resources, their state and utilisation.

Security

netPrefect™ presents a fully secured system using 128 bit encryption (stronger encryption may be enabled if required).

Software Only Distribution

Software Only Distribution is an internet download of the netPrefect™ engine installation kit

User Interface

The user interface provides the functions needed for full monitoring and control of all configured devices. The user interface can be downloaded and installed from the web server built into the main netPrefect™ application server. The level of control is dependent on user rights and privileges, giving secure access to only those who should have it.