Netcordia announced (http://www.netcordia.com/news/press-releases.asp) today that NetMRI's analysis will now include the capability to perform analysis in real-time. A number of customers had asked that NetMRI be able to detect when a problem was corrected and reflect that in the issue list and this capability addresses that request. When data that NetMIR collects indicates that a problem exists or has been corrected, the issue list will be updated to add or remove the item. In addition, we are adding the ability to trigger our innovative Getflow technology to configure netflow data collection on Cisco router interfaces that are running at high utilization so that you can see which systems are using the link and the specific protocol/port numbers that are being used.
Another source of real-time data is from the events that NetMRI receives from Splunk's log file analysis. In the past, I’ve found log data to be moderately useful, mainly because of the volume of log messages that can be generated by any reasonable size network. Since syslog and SNMP traps are nearly real-time, this will drive another component of the real-time analysis that is being incorporated into NetMRI.
-Terry
About tslattery
Terry Slattery, CCIE #1026, is a senior network engineer with decades of experience in the internetworking industry.
Prior to joining Chesapeake NetCraftsmen as a full time consultant, Terry was the founder and CTO of Netcordia, and inventor of NetMRI, a suite of network management products. Terry started Netcordia as a consulting company in 2000 and transitioned to a network management product company in 2003. During the consulting days, he used his network design and implementation skills to lead a team in the design and implementation of a high availability network at a brokerage clearing house. Terry is the former President and founder of Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc., a networking and computer systems training and consulting company. He co-invented and patented the vLab(tm) internet-based remote lab system. He is co-author of the McGraw Hill text Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks. Terry led the team that developed the current Cisco IOS user interface under contract to Cisco Systems. Terry is experienced in the design and installation of large TCP/IP based networks and is a successful network protocol instructor. He is the second Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #1026 and the first outside of Cisco. He enjoys membership on the Vanderbilt University Engineering School’s Industrial Advisory Board and the IEEE.