Management Packs

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

Information covered in management packs includes:

• Templates to enable auto discovery of devices covered by the management pack
• Rules to detect events
• Event processing, to raise alerts at the correct severity, as required
• Propagation settings, to ensure alerts are propagated up the device tree in the GUI correctly
• Device icons, for use in the GUI management tree

Standard Management packs included in the basic netPrefect™ installation include:

• Windows (XP, 2003, Vista)
• Linux
• Cisco

We will work with you to add management packs for devices you are required to support in your environment.

Basic events generated by the standard management packs include:

• Disk space utilisation
• CPU utilisation
• Memory utilisation
• Network link bandwidth utilisation
• Inventory of installed software
• Chassis component status

Basic alerts generated by the standard management packs include:

• Disk space threshold exceeded
• CPU usage threshold exceeded
• Memory utilisation threshold exceeded
• Network link inbound and outbound utilisation threshold exceeded
• Failed chassis components, eg. fans, PSU, etc.