Support for the new 64-bit platforms enables the AutoNOC operations core to take advantage of various hardware improvements including a larger memory pool and additional high-end processor configurations. This vastly increases the size of networks AutoNOC is able to manage while reducing the number of servers necessary.

"AutoNOC has typically been limited to approximately 400,000 probes on one server because of memory addressing limits in 32-bit architectures. The new 64-bit support allows us to increase this limit into the millions of probes, support true 64-bit computation and expand the real-time network analysis capabilities of our product," says Kyle Lussier, president of AutoNOC.

"Participation in the IntelŪ Early Access Program has enabled AutoNOC to bring its product to the Intel Itanium 2 processor customer base,” said Melissa Laird, general manager of Intel’s Developer Relations Division. “This represents another example of a vendor that has come to recognize the advantages of true 64-bit computing on platforms based on Itanium 2 processors."

The 2.5.210 platform upgrade of AutoNOC includes the introduction of official support for the Itanium and x64 computing platforms. Additionally this update provides many other major technology improvements, including:

• Network Model Search
  Users can now search their operations model using a web-search like interface. They can search by IP and regular expressions making it easy to find specific devices and interfaces within the network.

• New BGP, OSPF, Environment, and Other Probes
  We are pleased to have added various BGP and OSPF probes for the real-time monitoring of the state of various neighbors and peers. This is particularly helpful when introducing changes within large networks that are currently in operation. Additionally we have made many improvements to support more advanced interface naming, mechanisms, discovery models, environment monitoring, and other things.

• Core Performance Optimizations
  The latest update of AutoNOC implements many internal core optimizations that reduce CPU usage significantly and improve the performance polling rates across the network. In some cases we are seeing polling rates approaching 100,000 probes per second and the software is able to poll very large devices with many interfaces in as little as 15 seconds, and possibly less. The new core is capable of integrating and performing up to 256 simultaneous and different SNMP walks per IP address. This is useful in that all probes for a device can be solved simultaneously making things very fast.

• Memory Usage Improvements
  Large sections of the operations core have been re-designed to reduce memory churn and long-term memory fragmentation. This has expanded the size of the operations models the software is capable of running.

• Alarm Improvements
  Direct fire alarms, improved multi-threading support, all-alarms flag, more alarm specific interpreter functions, and other capabilities have been added to AutoNOC's alarm system.

• Server Reliability and Recovery Improvements
  Additional automated back-up capabilities have been added, memory self-monitoring, crash recovery with feedback, process restart check, and other reliability improvements.

People interested in downloding the AutoNOC 64 release should create a support account by visiting http://www.autonoc.com or direct questions to support@autonoc.com.

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