Products > Director™ - Multiply the Power of Your Monitoring Tools
Take control over your mission-critical, high-speed converged networks with
Director, a new monitoring and data aggregation solution from Net Optics, the leader in
monitoring access. Director connects dozens or hundreds of critical high-volume data links to
a sub-station of monitoring tools, enabling you to send just the traffic of interest from any
links to any tools you choose, with remote, dynamic control. Sophisticated filtering,
aggregation, and regeneration capabilities enable not only one-to-one, many-to-one, and
one-to-many mappings of links to tools, but even partial-to-one and partial-to-many by
selecting partial traffic streams based on protocol, IP addresses, ports, and even packet
payload content.
Director is a tool that multiplies the efficiency of your monitoring
resources—and monitoring tool investments—by providing the ability to share specialized tools
across many links and to stretch the processing power of the tools by having them work only on
traffic of interest for their particular purposes.
System Manager turns any Windows workstation into an SNMP-compatible management console to monitor
and reconfigure all the iTap-enabled devices on your network.
System Manager is a centralized management console that provides access to all of your Net Optics
iTap-enabled devices from anywhere within your organization. With System Manger, you can configure
devices or check their status instantly, without the time and expense of traveling to the device's
physical location.
Flexible Deployment
System Manager can operate over a dedicated management VLAN for maximum security.
It operates equally well over the network or Internet, providing remote management
from anywhere on the corporate network or in the world.
Provides a central console to manage any number of Director devices
Group devices by type, department, or other criteria
User-friendly GUI interface
View device and link status
Configure Director hardware and filters
Role-based privileges
RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication and authorization
Secured with password and isolated management port
Runs on any Windows XP, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 computer or workstation
Web Manager
Web Manager is a Web browser-based management console that enables remote management of
Net Optics iTap-enabled devices from anywhere in the world. Web Manger empowers you to
configure devices or check their status whether you are in your office, at home, or on
the road. Besides convenience, remote management also helps reduce the time and cost spent
walking, driving, or flying between buildings and locations to service devices.
Simply type the IP address of the device into the address bar of your favorite Web browser
to connect to the device as if it was within arm's reach.
Web Manager runs on all of the popular Web browsers including Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft
Internet Explorer. Pages are lightweight and load quickly, even over wireless connections.
Simple forms make configuring devices easy, and reveal complete device status at a glance.
Task-oriented
Each iTap-enabled device holds the Web Manager page specific to its model type. Whether the
task at hand is to check device status, disable a port, or change a connection, Web Manager
gets the job done in just a few quick mouse clicks.
Graphical device management interface
Embedded in Director
User-friendly GUI interface
View device and link status
Configure Director hardware and filters
Port names and aliases
Role-based privileges
RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication and authorization
Secured with password and isolated management port
Access from any Web browser including Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
Command Line Interface (CLI)
The command-line interface (CLI) will be familiar to any network administrator. Running over a remote SSH connection or a local RS-232 serial link, the CLI provides visibility and control of every aspect of configuration and operation.
Text-based device management interface
Embedded in Director device
Familiar switch-management CLI syntax
View device and link status
Configure Director hardware and filters
Port names and aliases
Role-based privileges
RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication and authorization
Password-secured
Remote SSH access
Local serial port terminal emulation software access