Device Modules

Fully integrated with EYE's core functionality, Device Modules extend EYE's physical IT infrastructure illumination. Automated and continuous discovery makes details of these components available in EYE's Component Viewer, real-time events are captured and alerted in the EYE Bulletin Board, while all extensive and historical details are stored In EYE's CMDB. Configure EYE to meet your unique requirements with optional Technology Modules that include:

• NEW - EYE SSL Services Module - Provides in-depth visibility, awareness, and manageability of Cisco® SSL Services modules operating within your network. This module helps companies reduce the complexity of managing web server farms and improves the availability of high-performance web services necessary for today's e-business applications. Read More >>
• NEW - EYE Management Module for VMware ESX Server - Simplifies management and reduces operational costs of VMware ESX servers. This optional module makes VM servers and their associated VMs visible and manageable in the context of the overall network infrastructure so businesses can reap the benefits of virtualization without running the risk of losing control to “VM-sprawl". Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE Wireless Module - Unifies visibility and management of wireless and wired networks to reduce operational expense and ensure availability of critical wireless access points and controllers. This optional modules extends EYE’s current strength in management of wired corporate switched local area networks (LANs) to monitoring the edge where wireless controller / lightweight access point (LAP) technology works either independently or together with Ethernet switches and/or autonomous wireless access points (WAPs). Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE IBM BladeCenter Management Module - Provides in-depth visibility into the various modules – power supplies, fans, and network switches – as well as the operation of the various blades including processors, memory, I/O and storage all housed within the BladeCenter chassis. With the addition of the IBM BladeCenter Management Module, EYE eliminates the noise clouding efficient management of these mission critical devises by providing automated, actionable network management intelligence. Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE Managed Hosts Module - Delivers actionable information for proactive and preemptive maintenance of key workstations and servers in your infrastructure. Automatically capturing hardware and software details along with monitoring the dynamic use of select system resources, the EYE Managed Hosts Module helps you keep mission-critical systems operationally efficient to prevent end-user service interruptions. Read More >> or Watch Video >>

Functional Modules

Many businesses employ optional technologies available today to extend or improve the quality or performance of their network infrastructures. Although each is designed to deliver incremental benefits, these technologies are typically hard to use and configure. EYE Functional Modules give you the solutions you need to improve the capability of distributed agent management technologies, understand configuration changes to these technologies and their impact on overall network performance.

Configure EYE to meet your unique requirements with optional Functional Modules that include:

• NEW for EYE 2009 - EYE Green IT Perspective™ Module - Sustainability does not stop at the data center door, but commercially available solutions to quantify the IT infrastructure’s contribution to Green IT initiatives have not been available – until now. A first in the network management industry, the Green IT Perspective available in EYE helps today’s IT organizations substantiating the business value of the network. Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE NetFlow Analyzer Module - Provides in-depth visibility into network traffic and its patterns, real-time network behavior and how traffic impacts the network's overall health. With detailed insight to application flows and how they traverse infrastructure connectivity, businesses gain better control and predictability of user activity, capacity planning and traffic engineering, proactive infrastructure and security analysis, and service level reporting for accounting and billing. Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• 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 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 routing peer-related events. Read More >>
• EYE Quality of Service Module - Automatically and continually discovers and presents QoS configuration details in the context of overall network performance and availability. EYE QoS Module gives visibility to Cisco® QoS Modular CLI (QMC) configurations to improve performance of QoS enabled networks while reducing administration complexity and time. Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE MPLS Module - Automatically and continually discovers configured MPLS IP VPNs and captures details at three tiers: LDP, LSR, VPN. Detailed configuration, utilization, & performance data is stored while configurable operational thresholds alert to potentially detrimental changes to enable resolution before user impact. The EYE MPLS Module helps customers using current generation MPLS-enabled networks maximize this mission critical data carrying service and make knowledgeable and informed capacity planning decisions. Read More >> or Watch Video >>
• EYE Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Module - Extends EYE’s unique access layer managing strength to include monitoring and capturing details of power supplied to devices from Cisco Ethernet switches. EYE’s visibility into which guest and auxiliary VLANs are associated to an interface is important to maintaining both the performance and security of your network. Read More >>
• EYE IP SLA Module - Simplifies and centralizes the setup and configuration of Cisco® IOS IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLA). Real-time network performance information including latency, jitter, packet loss, and web site download time is integrated within EYE for reporting. Read More >> or Watch Video >>

Integration Modules

One of Entuity's key objectives is the provision of flexible infrastructure management solutions. Integration and extensibility are key components of that objective.

Eye of the Storm's design reflects the real world, where customer requirements vary. This is especially so when companies are outsourcing their networks, or, maybe through mergers, taking on networks that use widely different technologies. What you then require is a product that is flexible, not just within its own configuration but also in its interaction with other applications.

Eye of the Storm is integrated with a whole series of leading system management tools, including:

• EYE Integration Module for BMC® Atrium™ CMDB – Contributes EYE’s acclaimed depth of network inventory, performance, operational, and forensic details to the industry-leading BMC Atrium CMDB. Read More >>
• EYE Integration Module for BMC® ProactiveNet Performance Management – Extends EYE’s demonstrated breadth and depth of detecting and alerting on network infrastructure performance and operational issues to facilitate broader event correlation and proactive incident and problem management through the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management product. Read More >>
• EYE NetFlow Tracker Integration Module - Combines EYE’s depth of infrastructure, connectivity, and event detail with the complete flow-based information of Fluke NetFlow Tracker to improve the performance and return on investment of your most critical business asset – your network. With detailed insight to application flows and how they traverse infrastructure connectivity, businesses gain better control and predictability of user activity, capacity planning and traffic engineering, proactive infrastructure and security analysis, and service level reporting for accounting and billing. Read More >>
• EYE Integration Module for BMC Remedy Action Request System - This bi-directional integration automates the workflow of generating Action Requests (ARs) on managed devices on your network. The EYE AR System Integration Module maximizes the accuracy and minimizes the effort necessary to create service processes in the BMC Remedy AR System. EYE's extensive IT infrastructure details are also linked to opened action requests to improve overall service resolution. Read More >>
• EYE Netcool Integration Module - This integration module gives customers using Netcool/OMNIbus a greater return on investment from their end-to-end manager of managers. The module integrates EYE’s depth of event details to automate resolution and improve the return on investment of the overall solution. With a scalable architecture designed to efficiently serve multiple servers, individual customer data is kept separate and secure. This is ideal for service providers or whenever enterprises demand segregated environments. Read More >> Additional information is available on the IBM Tivoli OPAL Catalog online.
• EYE TEC Integration Module - Forwards real-time events to IBM TEC and allows drill down from the TEC console back to the EYE interface. Forwarded events conform to TEC standards including severity levels, completeness of event details, and availability of event help. Read More >> Additional information is available on the IBM Tivoli OPAL Catalog online.
• EYE HP OpenView Integration Module - For IT organizations who have standardized on HP business technology optimization (BTO) solutions to optimize business services across IT domains in their enterprise, the EYE HP OpenView Integration Module delivers EYE’s depth of network infrastructure event details to OpenView for broader correlation and integration to IT infrastructure management processes. Read More >>
• EYE Unified Communications Manager Module - Enables management of Cisco® Unified Communications Manager - formerly Cisco CallManager (CCM) - within the context of the overall network. Configuration change and availability are monitored/alarmed and all CCM information is integrated within EYE for reporting. Read More >> or Watch Video >>

Entuity also provide generic integration solutions and notification via pager, e-mail or SMS about any specified event. As well as providing fault, performance and inventory information to system management tools, Eye of the Storm's Open Trap Receiver allows other products to use it as a management tool.

Flow-based Performance

As usual, the trouble ticket could not be more vague - "The network is slow!" But fortunately, Eye of the Storm has the functionality to not only give you a bottom-up view of how the network devices are operating, but also gives you a top-down view of the flows - applications, protocols, and conversations - occurring across your network. You start the EYE NetFlow Analyzer to have a closer look.

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The Google Map View Shows Locations and Top Statistics

One of the interfaces in your London location seems to have a high amount of out traffic utilization. Using the convenient hyperlinks in the EYE NetFlow Analyzer, you can launch the Network Snapshot for closer inspection.

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The Network Snapshot Quickly Identifies Top Devices

At a glance, you notice on device in particular represents a high percentage of the overall traffic. With another simple click, you can drill down to a traffic report on the device in question.

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Detailed Traffic Reports Graphically Show a Range of Statistics

You can clearly see the 95th percentile traffic and the times where the peaks are occurring. This corresponds with the frequency at which your user is complaining, so you are on the right track. One more hyperlink click should do the trick.

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Protocol Details Clearly Show Traffic Make-up

Within minutes, the EYE NetFlow Analyzer has given you the flow-based performance insight you need to make a well informed decision and improve your network's performance.

Configuration Management

Experience tells you - along with every industry expert - that the overwhelming majority of network problems result from inappropriate configuration changes. You know that you need to better automate your configuration management process, but although the full NCCM solutions on the market seem helpful, they require more effort than you can spare at this time. By having an automated backup process and active alerting to any changes in configuration, you can quickly decide if any changes are detrimental and fix issues more effectively.

The EYE IOS Configuration Monitor offers just the functionality you need without the burden of complicated policies, uncontrolled remediation, or extensive implementations. EYE's first line of defense is scheduled or on-demand archiving of configurations for managed devices.

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EYE IOS Configuration Monitor Automates Config Archival

Configurations are saved to a specified location on the network for safe and secure back up, enabling the fast retrieval of valid device configurations when required. Historic details are also logged to facilitate compliance verification.

You will also spend less time worrying about configuration changes on your network because IOS Configuration Monitor automatically compares running versus saved configurations, searching for significant device changes or policy non-compliance that may adversely affect device or network performance. Changes discovered to be non-compliant or different to previous files versions are automatically alerted through the EYE Bulletin Board, saving time and effort on this important task.

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EYE Detects and Actively Alerts on Configuration Changes

Prompted by real-time alerts, EYE has another trick up it's sleeve to save you time and aggravation. A graphical compare launched from the Bulletin Board can quickly and visually compare identified configurations. With an easy to read interface, you can quickly establish changes, deletions, and additions – each presented with a different color - quickly indicating if corrective action is warranted.

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EYE's Graphical Compare Highlights Config Changes

EYE IOS Configuration Monitor ideally provides a fast and effective way to ensure that all device configuration changes are tracked and monitored to ensure a consistent, stable and manageable network environment.

Reporting with Entuity Eye of the Storm

Generating reports can be manually intensive, time consuming and frustrating, particularly if the reported need is not a "canned report" provided by your network management software provider.

Fortunately, a broad range of reporting is conveniently available in EYE. For example, the Network Summary Report module presents concise and graphical summary of key network statistics perfect for management review:

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EYE's Network Summary Report module can be easily tailored for your individual business needs.

Entuity's Eye of the Storm FLEX Reporting allows you quickly and easily generate reports from EYE's management repository.

Suppose your supervisor wants to present an availability report to his CEO. She has asked you to produce a report that shows the availability for the router that provides connectivity to a remote sales office in New Canaan, CT. She has also asked for a utilization report of the circuit that goes to that same location, for the period between March 6th and March 9th. And, of course, she wants it now, in a PDF format that can be easily read by the CEO.

Using Eye of the Storm's flexible report generator, you can quickly deliver what she needs. By selecting a Monitored Device, and reporting on Component Availability for the period in question, and by filtering down to just the router to the sales office, and combining that with a bandwidth analysis of the port that goes to New Canaan, you get the boss what she needs.

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EYE's detailed and graphical reports help you get the most from your network.

This is just one example of how customers use Entuity's Eye of the Storm to provide meaningful information in today's fast-paced work environment.

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