Live Drilldown
Network Maps, Visualizations, and Network Layout
Visualization in AutoNOC 2.1 has been improved significantly to include
"investigate anywhere" clickable maps, pop up information, live in-visualization
graphs, IP address labeling, link traffic flow arrows, zoom, window drilldown, automatic
layout, device state display, set inside set drilldown, and more, all accessible within
any browser and requiring no special end user client technologies.
"One
Glance" Device Spindle Diagrams
A powerful new addition in AutoNOC 2.1 is the visualization of a device,
which is called a spindle diagram. This diagram shows the user a spinout display of
everything happening on the device. The state of every probe, log, event, category, and
component is shown on a single zoomable screen. With one glance you can fully understand
everything happening inside of a device making troubleshooting a breeze.
Syslog Server
Built-In
With this release we have integrated a built-in Syslog event server. You
can use AutoNOC 2.1 as a server for all syslog events. Simply configure your devices to
submit their events to the AutoNOC 2.1 server and the software will create the appropriate
logs and manage all of the events for you without any hassles.
Event Analysis,
Filtering, and Suppression
We have vastly improved event analysis and filtering in this release.
Incoming events, such as those from a syslog client can be dynamically analyzed and
filtered with user definable expressions.
New Alarm Tab
There is now a new "Alarms" screen in AutoNOC 2.1. This screen
shows all currently turned on alarms and provides the ability to reset them or ignore
them. This screen makes it easy to reset an alarm that you have already evaluated so that
you don't receive any more alarms for an adjustable time period. You can also use this
screen to ignore troublesome objects to prevent them from firing.
Object Based
Alarms
Alarms in AutoNOC 2.1 can now monitor any kind of an object as opposed to
just probes and logs. For example, it is possible to create an alarm that monitors the
state of a device or a set for problems. This is a very important and useful feature
because it eliminates the problem related to a simple thing happening and the user
receiving 1000s of e-mail notifications. When object based alarms are used you would only
receive one notification.
(Linux) Supports
for Chkconfig Service Standard
This makes it easier to manage the service and makes it more integrated
and more seamless in a linux environment.
Linking &
Switch Port Discovery
When you discover a managed switch that has SNMP enabled and implements
the switching MIB, AutoNOC will be able to correctly link between the switch port
components and other devices in the network model. For devices that AutoNOC is unable to
determine proper linking behavior, use the new Link tab of the device component
dialog to link different components together properly.
AutoNOC
Interpreter
The first step towards full migration and enabling of the complete AutoNOC
CLI (Command Line Interface) in the AutoNOC Operations Interpreter Command Prompt. The interpreter is now available
by clicking on a device, probe, template, or other such object. You can enter expressions
in the interpreter, such as Ping(192.168.1.1) and SNMP_Get(192.168.1.1,public,.1.3)
and the software will perform that function. This is helpful in debugging expressions for
probes as you can do a "test fire" until you get the right response.
Date Range Change
on Graphs
The investigate screen now shows only one graph that is adjustable. That
is you can specify a date and time range and hit the new Render Graph button and
AutoNOC 2.1 will automatically adjust to the time frame listed and load the data for that
graph for you.
Dynamic Bandwidth
Governor
The acquisition service now has the ability to dynamically monitor it's
own bandwidth used and govern itself. This setting is available in the Acquisition
object under configure. When enabled, the software will monitor how much bandwidth it is
using and it will slow itself down in order to spread out the acquisition load over time.
Column Sorting
Various displays in AutoNOC 2.1 can now have their results sorted by
column.
Automatic GIS
Lookups for Lat/Long with Free Add-On Database
When the GIS add-on pack is installed, AutoNOC can automatically look up
the latitude and longitude of most locations.
Login Security and
Firewall
In a world of increasing security concerns we have added an IP header
level firewall to the software. You can now filter who can access your AutoNOC 2.1 portal
by IP range making it only available to people coming in from certain IP addresses. This
feature is available on the Portal Setup dialog under Security. Be
careful with this feature as it is a true internal firewall and if you lock yourself out
of your own management portal, the steps to recover the model are tedious.
Clickable Row
Editing of Objects with Table Controls
The new ability to click edit rows within tables in the GUI is a great
time saver and makes tweaking probes quick and easy.
User
Personalization Improvements
AutoNOC 2.1 remembers the language the user last logged in with and the
username last used from that IP address to shorten logon times.
Duplicate Object
AutoNOC 2.1 includes the ability to duplicate any object or tree of
objects. This is useful, for instance, in creating custom probes derived from existing
ones.
User Definable
Variables
All internal variable constants (such as an interfaces speed) are now user
modifiable. You can also create your own custom variables and use them within probes.
Column Sorting in
Reports
Most tables in AutoNOC 2.1 can now be dynamically sorted ascending and
descending within the GUI.
Faster Event
Display on Observe Tab
A new optimized event query capability has been added that significantly
speeds up the amount of time required to display events on the Optimize page.
Probe Template
'Intelligence' Improvements
A variety of improvements have been made to many of the built-in probes.
These changes help to identify things such as when a disk isn't available in the hard
drive as a state.
Device Downtime
Scheduling
Devices can now have downtime scheduled and their state will be ignored
when this is true so that no alarms fire.
Dynamic Object
States
AutoNOC 2.1's new features include the ability to have child objects
automatically use the flags of their parent objects. New expression capability includes a
dynamic object hide expression. This customizable capability is useful and comes built-in
with the ability to automatically hide. Please note that all probes on import have the use
parent state enabled. If any of your settings have modified probe behavior, you will want
to uncheck the use parent state flag. The bulk dialog has a capability to do this with a
lot of devices as well.
Reduced Memory
Requirements
The probe acquisition cache has been eliminated due to its large use of
memory and constant update reflection issues when doing changes to an existing model.
Lots of Minor
Fixes and Improvements
For instance, the GUI multiple object selector, on the left only shows the
ones you haven't chosen to make the page load faster and more human understandable.
