Fault Detection is the first goal of LoriotPro. the huge number of health indicator to supervise in an Information System is impossible without a centralize solution that collect and display those indicators. LoriotPro provides first a convenient way of vitually storing the devices to manage. They are classified in a directory tree structure that is fully designed by the administrator thus the structure is always well adapted to the company infrastructure or organization. Visual current status of devices are displayed in almost real time in the directory but alos on graphical IP Map (the InternetWork MAP) or in organisationnal view (Active View). The Fault Detection with LoriotPro is very fast because the faulty device or application is pinpointed by its color in a blink of an eye. Additionnal programs called Plug-in provided other ways for fault detection. Among these one : Process Surveyor detect faulty or missing processus under Windows or Unix, Bulk Trheshold Control detects any changes or incorrect values in the SNMP MIB objects, Bulk TCP poller detects unresponding TCP ports etc...

Fault Correction in the Information System is not directly performed by LoriotPro. LoriotPro helps the administrator to fast identified a failed node within the infrastructure. Generally the failed node and/or is failed application are managed by proprietary configuration tools. One useful capability of LoriotPro is to start the configuration tools when the device is selected (A telnet session, a WEB access ...). Anyway, when the default is hardware a human intervention is necessary.
The SNMP set command is a way of setting and changing parameter remotly. For example the Common Query Tools and the Advaned Query Tools allow direct changes on SNMP values.

The localization of the fault is obvious with the MAP display (the responsible equipment is red colored) and with the Healt Control Center that filters devices by its location in the directory and by its current status. Furthermore, for huge networks with hundreds of nodes a search tool help to find a device in the directory or on the MAP. Actions can be taken on status change and start a diagnostique tool dedicated to the incriminated device. The verification of connectivity is available everywhere in the GUI by simple ping or SNMP request or with advanced diagnostique tools like our graphical TraceRoute or the Path Trace tool. To find faults in Switch and Bridge network achitecture using the spanning Tree algorithm us the Spanning Tree Bridge MAP plug-in.

The localization of the fault is obvious with the MAP display (the responsible equipment is red colored) and with the Healt Control Center that filters devices by its location in the directory and by its current status. Furthermore, for huge networks with hundreds of nodes a search tool help to find a device in the directory or on the MAP. Actions can be taken on status change and start a diagnostique tool dedicated to the incriminated device. The verification of connectivity is available everywhere in the GUI by simple ping or SNMP request or with advanced diagnostique tools like our graphical TraceRoute or the Path Trace tool.

The Event Manager from LoriotPro provides the monitoring of the events (alarm condition and informationnal status) occuring in the network, on the systems and application. Events are the result of traps (SNMP alarm sent by the devices or the application) or event directly created by LoriotPro on a SNMP polling result. By reading the objet value of any SNMP aware device and by setting threshold on these values and/or status, LoriotPro triggers alarm (event) generation. Event are immediatly displayed in the Event Monitor and store in log file for futher analysis.

The Event Manager from LoriotPro includes a powerfull filter engine that allows filtering on muliple criteria. The configuration is either perfomed directly in a config file of from an advanced wizard graphical interface. Filters are available for LoriotPro Events or SNMP traps. The Syslog Collector product provides the same advanced filtering capabilities for the SYSLOG messages standard. The filtered message could triger actions (SMTP message, trap forwarding, syslog forwarding, execution of programs).
Fiters are also available within numerous Plug-in, the Bulk Threshold, Active View, for example allow to trigger events on SNMP value.

LoriotPro is able to generate events (alarm) on SNMP value threshold and on non reponding polling. LoriotPro integrates a powerfull polling engine that is able to poll hundreds of hosts either with ping or SNMP requests. Failed pollings triggers alarms of various severity. This polling engine is fully configurable, polling interval, type of polling, set of SNMP oid, maintenance period...Plug-in are also able to generate alarm on conditions, Process Surveyor detect faulty or missing processus under Windows or Unix and generates, Bulk Trheshold Control detects any changes or incorrect values in the SNMP MIB objects, Bulk TCP poller detects unresponding TCP ports etc...

LoriotPro is not able to do Alarm Clear correlation. Alarm clearing is realized one by one or by group but not with correlation. However, the Event Browser is a LoriotPro Plug-in dedicated to the retrieval of historical alarm information. This powerful Log files browser and search engine could scan all your log file history for finding the event predefined by key words. Intuitive correlation could be done by the administrator at this level.

LoriotPro provide the control of resource utilisation by graphically displaying on line grahics or counters graphics the current and past usage rate. The variety of counter provided in the MIB files allows a fine control of who is using what. Tools that are able to control ressource utilization with LoriotPro are the Interface Monitor, the various linear and counter Graphics, the MRTG graph, the LoriotPro style Graph.

LoriotPro do not provide tools for defining provisioning plan but provides trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to perform provisionning. With such information it is easier to provision a ressource upgrade before the overload. The setting of threshold on usage levels allows the triggering of events and informs the administrator that upgrades are necessary.The Bulk Trheshold Control Plug-in detects any changes or incorrect values in the SNMP MIB objects and helps to provision resources on reached trheshold.

LoriotPro provides advanced discovery tools. The Discover process is a state of the art discovery module that is able to find by multiple ways the presence of any IP device. The starting point for a discover could be the LoriotPro platform or a remote (router) node. The scope of the discover is fully configurable in term of Hops, SNMP version ... Other tools helps the discover process to build a clear image of the Information System, the IP/SNMP scanner, the Trace Route and Internetwork Path, Netbios Name Resolver.

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LoriotPro is one of the best tools on the market for Ressource Shutdown detection. The core of the program is an advanced polling process which scan the availaibility of hundreds of hosts in few minutes.

Change management is not the goal of the product from the point of view of human ressources training. The discover process only help the administrator to detect any change (new system or device added or removed) by performing full intelligent scanning of the network.

LoriotPor provide trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to perform provisionning. The setting of threshold on usage levels allows the triggering of events and informs the administrator that upgrades are necessary.

LoriotPro with its integrated concept of Directory provides by default inventory management. The location, the quantities of equipment, their model numbers, serial numbers, software and hardware versions, installation dates can be collected and diplayed immediatly in dialog box or in WEB report. Furthermore, custom values can be attached to each device and categorize hosts on proprietary values. An integrated search engine finds any of these ressources in few seconds. An enhanced WEB scripting language performing background SNMP requests allows the administrator to built up to date reports on the current asset. Additionnal Plug-in dedicated to Cisco devices collect and save the current version of IOS. Discovery process, the IP/SNMP scanner and the Trace Route tools performs advanced search for discovering any non registered devices.

LoriotPro provides trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to perform provisionning. The setting of threshold on usage levels allows the triggering of events and informs the administrator that upgrades are necessary.

Only one Plug-in from LoriotPro is directly connected to cost management. The Cisco ISDN statistics provided detailed information on Calls duration and thus can be used to calculate cost.

The Accounting limit management is possible with LoriotPro but limited to the SNMP SET command options available on the device.
LoriotPro is able to perform setting on any device and on any settable SNMP object. If disk space can be limited from SNMP LoriotPro provides the SET command that control the usage. SET can be performed directly in some MIB table like available in intergated tools like the Common Query tool. It is also possible to set limits (threshold) that will trigger an alarm when this limit is reached.

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LoriotPro is able to perform setting on any device and on any settable SNMP object. If disk space can be limited from SNMP LoriotPro provides the SET command that control the usage. SET can be performed directly in some MIB table like available in intergated tools like the Common Query tool. It is also possible to set limits (threshold) that will trigger an alarm when this limit is reached.

Schedule audits and reports could be realized with LoriotPro. An internal scheduler can perform report generation. Reports are scripts that are executed on demand. Scripts can contain all the information available by SNMP or contained in the Directory. It is for example possible to print all the routing table of routers within a network in a single report, to collect the list of installed application on system ...

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LoriotPro is the ideal tool for finding errors and setting alarm thresholds on tolerable values. The SNMP MIB contains by default tons of indicators on error rates and exploiting them with LoriotPro is a matter of few mouse clicks. Additionnal programs called Plug-in provided other ways for fault detection. Among these one : Process Surveyor detect faulty or missing processus under Windows or Unix, Bulk Trheshold Control detects any changes or incorrect values in the SNMP MIB objects, Bulk TCP poller detects unresponding TCP ports etc...

The first level of performance that LoriotPro collect is the availibility. By polling at regular interval all the hosts located in your IS, LoriotPro provides you with an in depth view on the availibility of your ressources. By default line graph and counter graphs shows the availibity and performance of your hosts. This proactive monitoring preemts any degradation in service quality.

LoriotPro provides the internal process for gathering data statistics over service intervals. Internal timers trigger hundred of SNMP polling requests toward the Network Elements and retreive data statistics used for real time statistics or trend analysis.

LoriotPro provides trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to make performance analysis. WEB Report with line graph are generated from this collected data

LoriotPro provides trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to make performance analysis. The TraceRoute Plug-in for example provides detailed values on round trip time with mininmum, maximum and average values.

Problem reporting is possible with an integrated E-mail system that forward events and alarms to predefined E-mail address. Event log could be printed and use as reports either for all hosts or on a host by host basis.

LoriotPro provide trend analysis with long term information that helps the administrator to perform provisionning. The setting of threshold on usage levels allows the triggering of events and informs the administrator that upgrades are necessary.

Statistics are available on availibilty and perfomance for each host located in the directory and polled at regular interval.
Performance data can be stored in database if they are issued from a Netflow collector Device. Netflow is a Cisco concept that collects rich statistic information on netwok flows.

LoriotPri support SNMP v3 that allows a selective access to agent indicators and data. The LoriotPro WEB console intergates user access control and provides a fine tuning of what objects can be seen in the directory tree.

LoriotPro does not provide solution for enabling NE functions except device SNMP v3 configuration

LoriotPro and the Syslog Collector solution provide a perfomant solution for Syslog message management. Syslog messages are use to log security information in many Unix based Firewal and proprietary one like PIX from Cisco. The Syslog solution is able to filter severe security alarms among a high flow of log.
Log browser are provided allowing the administrator to easily find log entries on search key words among hundreds of log files.

LoriotPro and its advanced Event management is able to manage security alarms either comming from Syslog collector agent or SNMP devices. SNMP Alarms (events) are either result of SNMP polling results or received traps.

LoriotPro does not provide solution for data privacy. LoriotPro includes mechanisms that guarantee data privacy of its own protocol.

The LoriotPro WEB console intergates user access control and provides a fine tuning of what objects can be seen in the directory tree. This feature allows the delegation of partial management work.

THe bulk threshold Plug-in is a good tool for testing security breach in Firewall for the TCP open ports. IP/SNMP scanner helps the administrator to detects SNMP aware hosts and those that are opened to attacks with common communities.

Audit trail are are also maintain in the common log. All access could be log as LoriotPro events.