Network Administrator and Cisco Cdp Monitor Software for Windows

Alchemy Eye PRO
$399 - Alchemy Lab

Alchemy Eye PRO is a system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager BEFORE problems get seriously out of hand. This helps protect your company's data and reduces the likelihood of costly network failures. If a server goes down, Alchemy Eye automatically notifies the network administrator and writes a detailed log file.

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Alchemy Network Inventory
$199 - M.I.S.Helpers

Network Administrators use this tool to inventory computers in the corporate networks for the software and hardware configuration, generate software licenses reports, etc. The program does not require the client module to be installed on each individual workstation, but can be configured to inventory all network computers by only copying the files to a single shared folder on a file server. With Alchemy Network Inventory you can not only build comprehensive detailed reports on the network PC's configuration, but also export inventory information to SQL databases, intranet web sites, text files, etc.

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Cisco CDP Monitor
$19.95 - TallSoft

Cisco CDP Monitor is an efficient network diagnostic and troubleshooting tool. It is very useful for network administrator and network engineer.
At first, Cisco CDP Monitor is a CDP agent for windows host. It is able to use the CDP(Cisco Discovery Protocol) which is a private protocol and is only used in Cisco's devices such as Cisco router, Catalyst switch and so on.
With Cisco CDP Monitor, You can send the information (CPU number and model, host name, user name and the windows version, service pack version) of your host to the connective Cisco device with CDP, and you can get and display the information from the connective Cisco device, such as device name, device model, port which is connecting with, administive ip address, IOS version, VTP Domain Name, and so on. With these information, you can easily know the total topology of your network and you can easily do troubleshooting. Once the CDP information changed (maybe the link or device failed, or you changed the setup of Cisco device), Cisco CDP Monitor will detect and notify the administrator by Warning Message Box, Warning sounds, Send email and Run related program.
So Cisco CDP Monitor can monitor your network automatically . In specailly, Cisco CDP Monitor can send the information of the host to Cisco devices. So the LAN Management Solution and the Routed WAN Management Solution of CiscoWorks 2000 Campus Manager can get these information and show the total topology of your network in graphics mode, not only the Cisco network devices, but also your PC and host. You can monitor windows host in Cisco's Network Management software.
What can Cisco CDP Monitor help you ?
1. To learn the structure of whole network.
2. With CiscoWorks 2000 Users can get the Cisco network devices and PCs list of his network in graphics mode.
Who need Cisco CDP Monitor ?
1. Network Administrator
2. Network Engineer

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DeviceLock
$35 - SmartLine Inc.

DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can access what devices (floppies, serial and parallel ports, Magneto-Optical disks, CD-ROMs, USB and FireWire drives, Bluetooth, ZIPs, etc.) on a local computer. Once DeviceLock is installed, administrators can control access to floppies, CD-ROMs, USB or any other device, depending on the time of day and day of the week. DeviceLock enhances access control for Windows System Administrators and helps control removable disk usage. It can protect network and local computers against viruses, trojans and other malicious programs often injected from removable disks. Network administrators can also use DeviceLock to flush a storage device's buffers. Remote control is also available. Keep in mind that almost 80% of all security breaches come from the inside! DeviceLock is a best solution to secure NT and protect your network computers against attack from the inside.

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WanSpy
$150 - DVS INFORMATICS P LTD

Overview of WanSpy

WanSpy is intended to give Network Administrator a visual view of how his
Expensive Wan Bandwidth is getting utilized. In addition to online monitoring WAN
link, WanSpy also facilitates Network Administrator to keep record of WAN usages for inventory purposes.WanSpy is based on SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) accepted across
industry for management of computer networks.

Features

Use Cisco(R)'s IP Accounting

Snmp ver 2c complient.

Very simple upgradation path to all coming SNMP versions.

It allows you to set Refresh Time according to network load.

Graphical display of first 10 IP pairs in the table showing their percentage utilisation of the overall bandwidth on WAN port.

Interface traffic graphs showing incoming and outgoing octets on all interfaces.

IP Traffc graphs showing incoming ,outgoing, forwarded, discrarded ip packets.

Cisco system graph showing free memory and CPU utlization.

Bandwidth utilazation graph showing %utilization of incoming and outgoing traffic

Audio alarm generated when the number of bytes transferred exceeds the specified limit on the WAN port. The last alarm time is also displayed on screen.

Log file generated which stores the IP pair values which cross the specified limit.

Facility to print and save reports showing source IP, destination IP, bytes transferred, packets transferred and violations on WAN port.

Export the IP accounting data to screen, text file, MS Excel format

Alarm the network administrator based on configurable WAN bandwidth usage threshold

Application of Wanspy
1)Overall management of Cisco Router
2)Monitoring, how WAN is currently utilizing.
3)Generating Reports of Wan usages in certain time period





Disply Interface table and interface details that can either export to Microsoft Excel or text file.

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DeviceLock Me
$35 - SmartLine Inc.

DeviceLock Millennium Edition gives network administrators control over which users can access what removable devices (floppies, Magneto-Optical disks, CD-ROMs, ZIPs, etc.) on a local computer. Once DeviceLock Me is installed, administrators can control access to floppies, CD-ROMs or any other device, depending on the time of day and day of the week. DeviceLock Me enhances access control for Windows System Administrators and helps control removable disk usage. It can protect network and local computers against viruses, trojans and other malicious programs often injected from removable disks. Network administrators can also use DeviceLock Me to flush a storage device's buffers. Remote control is also available.

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