netPrefect™ can manage devices/applications via one or more of the following mechanisms:
- Device initiated TCP/IP connection
A raw TCP/IP connection initiated by a remote device/application which transmits ASCII data
- Log File
Any log file available to the netPrefect device management component (e.g. local or via a windows share of nfs mount point)
- Raw TCP/IP
A raw TCP/IP connection initiated by netPrefect to a remote device/application which transmits ASCII data
- SMTP
Any incoming SMTP message which conforms to RFC 788 and RFC 2821
- SNMP
Any device which supports SNMP V1 or V2c
- SNMP Trap
Any device that sends SNMP V1 or V2c traps
- SSH
Any device which supports a remote SSH connection
- SYSLOG
Any device which has the ability to remotely log using the SYSLOG protocol
- Telnet
Any device which supports a remote Telnet connection
- Telnet - using SSL protocol
Any device which supports an SSL secured remote Telnet connection
- Reachability
Tests for reachability of the managed device using either ICMP ping or connection to the ECHO port (Port 7)
- Port Scan
Tests for open ports on the managed device, reporting the port status
- WinConsole™
A Windows agent which provides:
- a command line interface for performing rudimentary commands (e.g. log off user, reboot system, show processes etc)
- monitoring of the Windows event log
- monitoring of application log contents
- monitoring of files (indicates whether a file exists, when it was last updated, accessed etc)
- monitoring of Windows service status
'In Band' devices supported include:
- Any Device that supports SNMP V1 or V2c
'Out of Band' devices supported include (but is not limited to):
- OpenVMS
- Linux
- UNIX (most)
- WindowsNT - through use of agent software which allows NT to be managed through its RS232/serial or TCP/IP ports
- Routers and other networking hardware with RS232/serial port management
- PABX systems with RS232/serial port control or monitoring
- Environmental Control systems which have RS232/serial port management
- Any other hardware which can be controlled through a serial port
Device Monitoring can be restricted to specific times of the day
All managed device data is:
- Timestamped
- Logged to database
- Periodically archived as ASCII text for offline historical storage
User access controlled by:
- Defined system groups based on access profiles
- Permissions per user per system group (e.g. Read-Only, Read-Write etc).
Advanced Event/Alert Detection and Notification:
- Event detection can be restricted to specific times of the day
- Automatically clear/raise events after predetermined time
- Complex Rule definitions in order to generate events using text patterns defined as:
- Simple text strings
- Regular expressions
- Wildcard expressions
- Events notified in real-time via:
- Graphical User Interface
- Email
- Text file to be read by other applications
- SNMP Trap to third party management tools
- Insert into user specified SQL Database
- Alerts generated with state relative to the event that triggered them
