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Network Associates to Roll Out Sniffers for SMB

Network Associates Inc. on Monday will expand its Netasyst line of network management tools aimed at small and midsize businesses. The latest Netasyst offerings include a pair of new distributed network analysis tools that obviate the need for technicians to take a portable protocol analyzer to the network segment users want to analyze. The client/server-based […]

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Apr 9, 2004
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Network Associates Inc. on Monday will expand its Netasyst line of network management tools aimed at small and midsize businesses.

The latest Netasyst offerings include a pair of new distributed network analysis tools that obviate the need for technicians to take a portable protocol analyzer to the network segment users want to analyze.

The client/server-based version of the tool includes an agent that can be installed on any PC attached to the critical network segments operators wish to monitor, and a console that gathers both statistical data gathered by the agent as well as protocol captures. Both run on Windows XP.

The Netasyst D and Netasyst DX network analyzers both provide remote troubleshooting of 10/100 Ethernet LAN segments from a central location and allow operators to see what kind of protocol traffic is traversing WAN links from remote LAN locations. The Netasyst DX option adds expert protocol analysis and diagnostics to the base Netasyst D.

“The expert system takes knowledge accumulated over 17 years, looks at network traffic and picks out problems based on that knowledge. It runs off a rules set that covers the data to the applications layer,” said Steve Finegan, product launch manager at Network Associates in Santa Clara, Calif. Netasyst DX can decode applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server.

“This will allow us to have a client at a remote site and track what kind of bandwidth usage we have on our WAN,” said existing user JR Williams, network system engineering lead at Uline Shipping Supply Specialists in Waukegan, Ill. “A program like this will be a great help to see if problems are local or over the WAN. For example, if someone were streaming live music or doing a very large download from the Internet, we’d be able to see that traffic going over the WAN link. It’ll give us much more in-depth WAN diagnostics that we don’t currently have,” he added.

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