Bundled Extensions For Increased Versitility

Your network is as unique as your business, so your management system should provide the flexibility to cost-effectively address your individual operational challenges. Bundled as core functionality in EYE, there are several configurable extension modules to give you additional management control of your network. EYE bundled extensions can be toggled on or off as desired to balance management control with operational performance and resource requirements of EYE.

EYE bundled extensions give you the solutions you need to manage diverse physical IT infrastructure components, workstations and servers and produce the business intelligence needed for proactive network service assurance. They augment EYE by illuminating new devices types, delivering incremental functionality, or by providing alternative reporting functionality.

Functional Extensions
EYE functional extensions give you the solutions you need to improve overall management of your network. Configure EYE to meet your unique requirements with functional extensions that include:

• NEW for EYE 2008 SP1 - EYE Report Server Module - Delivers new flexibility and interactivity for selecting, exploring, analyzing, visualizing, and reporting on any of EYE’s wealth of data to uncover previously unknown trends and patterns and empower strategic business decisions. Building upon the openness and accessibility of data provided by EYE’s Data Export functionality, the EYE Report Server uses Web 2.0 drag & drop simplicity to integrate and tailor multiple data sources into descriptive tables, crosstabs, charts, corporate dashboards, or Web mash-ups, to deliver business intelligence throughout the organization. Read More >>
• NEW for EYE 2008 SP1 - EYE Routing Protocols Extension Module - Delivers improved visibility and reduces the management burden of networks using the BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF protocols. With this module, EYE discovers, collects performance data, presents reports, and visualizes active routers and their adjacent peers for each protocol. Proactive management of these devices is enabled through active notification on peer-related events. Read More >>
• EYE Data Export Server Module - The EYE Data Export Server Module addresses the dynamic data reporting and analysis needs of the business by making EYE’s depth and breadth of historic and real-time performance, inventory and forensic data available in an external database for use by any display or reporting technology. Read More >>
• EYE Configuration Monitor - A straightforward, easy to implement extension to EYE enabling automated retrieval, active monitoring, and archiving of device configurations. EYE Configuration Monitor helps customers gain control and predictability of their networks by enabling real-time visibility to potentially harmful configuration changes on managed devices across the network, alerting users when changes occur. Read More >>
• EYE Executive Reporting Module - A graphical management level reporting solution that concisely displays overall network availability and performance. Easily tailored, the Executive Reporting module delivers at-a-glance insight into key indicators and performance trends of the business infrastructure. Concise and graphical dashboard-style reports –driven by EYE’s depth of real-time and historical data – help executives and business unit managers align IT resources with organizational objectives and proactively address utilization issues. Read More >>

Device Extensions
Fully integrated with EYE's core functionality, device extensions broaden EYE's physical IT infrastructure illumination. Configure EYE to meet your unique requirements with extensions that include:

• EYE Managed Hosts Module - Extends EYE's management reach to include workstations and servers. The EYE Managed Hosts Module gathers details such as package/patch version and installation date and monitors/alarms on utilization statistics including memory, disk space, and CPU. Read More >>
• EYE VPN Gateway Module - Enables monitoring and management of VPN Gateways. The EYE VPN Gateway Module gathers detailed inventory information, such as version, serial, and model numbers and monitors/alarms on utilization statistics including device memory, maximum number of tunnels, and number of tunnels in use. Read More >>
• EYE Firewall Module - Enables monitoring and management of network firewalls. The EYE Firewall Module gathers detailed inventory information, such as version, serial, and model numbers and monitors/alarms on statistics including device memory and CPU utilization. Read More >>
• EYE IBM BladeCenter Module - Enables monitoring and management of IBM® BladeCenter® multi-modular server products including associated blades, modules, chassis, and switches. Support for monitoring/alarming on more than seventy events integrated within EYE, providing extensive reporting capability. Read More >>