| How can ONCALL assist
in the prevention of disasters?
Unlike
network management applications such as Whats Up Gold, CiscoWorks,
Optivity and Castle Rock's SNMPc, ONCALL is designed to operate
separately to operational day to day Help desk operations activities
and management applications
When
other alerting systems have failed, ONCALL can provide early and
independently generated notification of adverse conditions before
catastrophic failure or facilities loss occurs
- ONCALL is configured
as a dedicated system monitoring only your most critical network
devices and services.
- ONCALL provides
independent monitoring of all types of IP network infrastructure
devices. ONCALL uses ICMP pings, snmp queries and traps to
periodically test for metrics which operate outside predetermined
values.
- ONCALL uses
a series of user definable actions which enumerate and test for adverse
conditions before automatically generating alerts to one or several
persons via GSM SMS messaging (cell phones, pagers etc.)
SMS mail, SMTP messaging, pop-ups and Exchange mail.
ONCALL's
purpose is to provide vital independent accurate data logging of
critical events, enumeration, and, if necessary, messaging via
independent paths using unambiguous language.
My existing Network Management system
already provides alerting of critical event information. What is unique
about ONCALL?
- ONCALL has been purposely
designed for monitoring and reporting adverse events
- ONCALL is
capable of using your LAN, PBX, private lines and
GSM networks,
pop ups and mail systems simultaneously to issue alerts
- Alerts can be targeted via a
calendar system to take care of communications method, shift changes
and personnel availability
- ONCALL can be used as
a secondary system for proprietary management systems such as process
control
- ONCALL can
be configured to monitor environmental conditions in your unmanned Data
centre, telecomms equipment room and machine rooms
Many
generic network management systems have alerting as a secondary
activity and have limited functionality. This is not particularly
conducive to disaster prevention. In fact, day to day operations
activities can accidentally render an alerting system useless through
misconfiguration. Why take the risk?
Is ONCALL supplied with any configuration
utilities for identification of OID's etc.?
Yes, ONCALL is shipped with a
powerful integrated mib walking tool. This makes configuration easy!
Is
ONCALL web enabled?
ONCALL
uses a client / server model; ONCALL Viewers are special
instances of ONCALL customised by user account, to provide specific and
individual views and features which would be uneconomic to reproduce as
web pages. ANEC will offer licences to some customers to use
the
ONCALL database schema to produce web sites as required.
Does
ONCALL produce graphical and tabular reports?
Yes,
ONCALL provides an ability to output the contents of log files,
tabulated data and graphs from its integrated powerful graphics engine.
Many formats are supported including xml, xls and plain text.
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