Switches are the backbone of your LAN. Any
problem in your switches affects a large proportion of your
LAN users. Implementing a proactive switch monitoring system
helps you detect problems early and avoid potential problems.
MSP Center Plus switch monitoring functionality automatically
discovers switches in your network and places them on a special
switch map . All the switch ports are also discovered and
intuitively placed on the map.
Using MSP Center Pluss switch monitoring capability, operators
can gain visibility into the status and availability of switch
ports. MSP Center Plus actively monitors switch ports and quickly
notifies operators whenever a switch port or the switch goes
down. Operators can setup MSP Center Plus to monitor only critical
ports, an industry best practice for Switch monitoring, that
prevents unnecessary alarms from being generated. MSP Center Plus
also offers visibility into spanning tree status showing which
ports are blocked and which ones are forwarding.
MSP Center Plus Switch Monitoring features
Switch and Switch Ports availability monitoring
With MSP Center Plus you can create business
views (maps) to graphically visualize your entire LAN. MSP Center Plus
can automatically send alerts when a link goes down.
MSP Center Pluss reporting functionality also provides you
with a detailed availability report of your Switches and Switch
Ports. You can use these reports to ensure that your SLAs
are being met.
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Port-wise Traffic Monitoring
MSP Center Plus helps you monitor and troubleshoot
Switch Ports for traffic, utilization, errors and Service Level
Agreement (SLA) verification. By presenting accurate information
on port traffic and utilization MSP Center Plus helps you identify
top talkers on the LAN.
- Monitor Port utilization and traffic with threshold alerts.
- Detect potential BroadCast Storms and proactively prevent
the same.
- Identify highly utilized and under-utilized ports.
- Get alerted when a port start discarding packets
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Switch Monitoring Tools
Real Time Switch Monitoring Tools such
as Switch Port Mapper and STP Tool are bundled with MSP Center Plus.
Switch Port Mapper
The Switch Port Mapper is an useful utility that is embedded
in MSP Center Plus. It helps you to quickly find out the list of
devices connected to the switch ports.
STP Tool
Spanning Tree Protocol details for each port can be viewed
using the STP Tool. TThis gives you valuable information about
the spanning tree state of each port such as which ports are
blocking and which ports are forwarding etc.
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