nGenius Performance Manager - What's New in Version 4.6
The nGenius Performance Management System version 4.6 delivers on NetScout’s promise of a unified software solution for the majority of older and all new InfiniStream products. It also provides many new features and enhanced functionality that continue to extend visibility into the modern IP network in order to predict, identify and resolve the most complex networked application issues. These new features and functionality include:
- A combined set of protocols and a common decode engine for all packet analysis
- Sniffer Analysis, a new console that provides users with Sniffer Expert and Sniffer Intelligence functionality as well as direct connection into the majority of NetScout’s packet capture devices
- Tighter integration between nGenius Performance Manager and our packet analysis tools, including the ability to
- Launch Sniffer Intelligence from the Performance Manager Alarm Viewer, using the start and end time from the alarm as context
- Launch MultiSegment Analysis from the nGenius Performance Manager Navigation Tree or All Enterprise view using the start and end time range as the filter
| Additional nGenius Performance Manager Features |
- Burst Advisor View displays 1ms peaks that occur in each 15 minute CDM flow
- Burst Alarms on virtual interfaces with 100 microsecond granularity
- Application packet and octet alarms for virtual interfaces
- QuickSelect double view showing link stats for last 24 hours at 1 minute granularity in the top section and Applications, AL Conversations, NL Conversations, AL Hosts or NL Hosts in the lower section
- Selective Recording on a per application basis; often important for compliance
Aggregate Host Groups configure which hosts are collected individually and which are aggregated
- Site-to-Site Views provides historical link statistics between monitored sites for more comprehensive and faster analysis of site-to-site traffic
- Ability to disable IP_Other Host and Conversation collection
- Support for APN Monitoring
- New Mobile Filters for Sniffer Intelligence providing the ability to filter by CDMA (IMSI or NAI) or GSM (MSISDN, IMSI or APN)
- Extensions to Sniffer Mobile Intelligence for UMTS/GPRS and single box call trace
- Multi-box call trace via MultiSegment Analysis (UMTS/GPRS)
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| Additional Protocol Support |
- Ability to extend standard applications within Global Settings to more easily refine and focus monitoring, such as:
- New “Multicast” node under UDP to categorize new multicast applications for MDP, CTS, CQS and OPRA
- Children of M3UA (which is a child to SCTP) applications: ISUP, BICC, RANAP and TCAP
- GTPv0 and GTPv1 child protocols for the following control pane protocol types: PDP Create Request/Response, PDP Update Request/Response, PDP Delete Request/Response
- Support for the Riverbed Steelhead signaling protocols to provide application visibility into the performance of Riverbed-accelerated WAN traffic
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| nGenius Performance Manager for NetFlow Support |
- MIBII polling at 5-minute intervals for more granularity in view resolution, alarming, baselines and newspaper
- Support for Cisco QoS MIB polling, including Discard Packets, Discard Bytes
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- Interactive Summary views: zoom, log/linear toggling, forecast lines, mouse-over data display
- Over Time Service views with drop-down time choices: Last Hour, Last 6 Hours, Last 12 Hours, Today, Last 24 Hours, Yesterday, Last 7 Days, and Last Week
- Ability to aggregate application services (i.e., group FIX Order Single and FIX Other into a single view)
- Ability to display Service Maps in a grid format for easier viewing of large deployments
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| Dedicated Global Server Support |
- Separately-licensed software or dedicated server that is designed specifically for managing distributed nGenius Performance Manager environments
- Innately includes support for optional product licenses (such as nGenius K2 or nGenius Analytics for Flows)
- Provides all the functionality for adding and configuring devices and settings on the Local Servers within the cluster it manages
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