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An up-to-date and trusted inventory of assets is a prerequisite for succesful network management. EYE achieves the goal in two steps:
- Automated discovery of network assets and their inclusion to its inventory
- Continuous observation (discovery) of known assets and monitoring of their updates and modifications
EYE discovers a wealth of data about typical network devices. It goes well beyond simplistic MIB2 information provided by simpler solutions, such as:
- physical components and modules of modular devices
- chassis, CPUs, memory, cache, temperature sensors, fans, power units, interface cards, and more
- logical network configurations and connectivity
- L2 physical links, VLANS, spanning trees, routing protocol peers, physical-virtual connectivity and other L2/L3/L4 information
- virtual network components
- virtual switches, virtual port groups, virtual machines, virtual interfaces
As a result, EYE offers an unparalleled live big picture of networks with all its physical, logical and virtual components included in a single pane of glass.
Benefits
- Ultimate knowledge of physical assets in networks, including their revisions, firmware and optional subcomponents
- Accurate inventory reports and audits
- Discovery of unused capacity, spare ports detection
- Dynamic and up to date connectivity information with real time statuses of links and alerts about their outages
- Accurate description of how physical and virtual networks meet
Topology Information
EYE discovers and reports on various types of links, including:
- Physical L2 access switch connectivity
- Spanning trees
- infrastructure links between switches and routers - trunks, uplinks
- BGP, OSPF and EIGRP peering information
- IPv6 neighbor discovery
- CDP, LLDP, SONMP
- MPLS with VRF information
Supported infrastructure
EYE supports thousands of network devices from hundreds of vendors. While one of the major benefits of EYE is its ability to quickly adopt new devices in hours or days, it ships with a wide support for infrastructures that includes:
- Traditional Ethernet networking - switches, routers, wireless solutions
- Load balancers, firewalls, VPNs, SSL Proxies, PoE Injectors
- Blade centers, hypervisors, basic hosts
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 Fully automated and dynamic map
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 EYE automatically discovers and keeps inventory up to date.
 Virtual infrastructure as reported by a VMWare vCenter Server
 Inventory details of a virtual switch
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