nVision helps you to make sure that every critical network device is working properly. With this program you will no longer have to worry about the health of important services. It will continually and automatically check to ensure that the mail server is sending and receiving e-mails, the SQL server is in good condition, there is still enough space on your network drives, your internet connection is fully operational all the time, and much more. If any problematic situation should arise, you will be notified and a corrective measure can be run automatically, even if it is midnight.

In your everyday job, nVision will help make sure that you know the state of your network all the time. Is a user calling because of a printer problem? With one look at the map, you will know that the printer is turned off. Having problems with the internet connection? Send your provider a report showing how the percentage of lost packets has risen lately or all the times when the connection was down.

Network inventory with license auditing will protect you and your company from severe penalties for possessing illegal software. Effective license management will help you avoid the purchase of unnecessary programs.

It will also help you effectively manage computer equipment throughout the whole company.

If you are responsible for equipment worth millions, then nVision with its probe will let you make sure that the temperature in your server room is not too high, and that the room is not flooded or on fire.

Constant processes of monitoring and alerts in case of potential threat prevent outages and significantly reduce the duration of a breakdown. Permanent control of environmental parameters protects operational processes and IT premises from the consequences of some allied perils (overheating, humidity, fire, flooding, etc.) which can result in device destruction and data loss. Proactive network monitoring, apart from eliminating emergency situations, also facilitates IT infrastructure management and development.

The new version of Axence nVision will protect you and your company from the severe consequences of possessing illegal software. Many businesses face serious legal risks due to software piracy, exposing themselves to severe civil and even potentially criminal penalties. Under the law, a company can be held liable for its employees’ actions, even if management was unaware of these actions. The copyright owner may then choose between actual damages (the amount it has lost because of your infringement plus any profits attributable to the infringement), and statutory damages, which can be as much as $150,000 for each program copied. In addition, the government can prosecute you criminally. If convicted, you can be fined up to $250,000, or sentenced to jail for up to 5 years, or both. What you also lose is your good reputation and the trust of your customers and business partners, which can cause even more harm to your company.

nVision also provides advanced license management solutions. They help optimize processes, improve reliability and security, as well as reduce, to a significant degree, the costs connected with the purchases and maintenance of software licenses which are not fully used. Your investment in nVision will pay off very quickly – when you will no longer need to buy one or a few unnecessary licenses.

A key argument for investing in nVision is the wide scope of its functionality and the highest quality in relation to price.

nVision has a very advanced network scanner which allows you to discover all the hosts in your network. It also detects all routers and "goes through" them to scan all neighbor networks. It discovers all hosts and then scans for services and applications running on them, such as HTTP, FTP, mail and database servers, etc.

A network scanner will be run periodically to discover new nodes, services and applications. The scanner uses ICMP and SNMP to detect hosts and determine their type: router, switch, Windows, NetWare, Linux, network printer, etc. nVision automatically creates a routing map to reflect your network logical organization. This map is created on the basis of the information held in your router’s routing tables.

		The host icon presents a wide range of information right on the map – displayed in these examples: Host type: Windows XP Leading service (usually PING) response time is 10ms Host status <Warning> (yellow icon) because service HTTP is down for 4min 1s Leading service response time and packet loss rate are visualized on the chart This is an SNMP manageable host
		Host type: Linux server Host status <Down> (red icon) for 1 day 2hrs There are 3 currently ongoing (unresolved) alerts

The maps are easily customizable. You can arrange icons, link them, place bitmaps in the background, etc. nVision also automatically creates a routing map to reflect your network topology.

You can set up multiple alerts to monitor the status of your systems and receive an alarm whenever they go down or experience problems, such as important parameters going out of range.

nVision uses smart monitoring technology, which ensures that every service and counter is monitored as often as possible. It automatically manages the monitoring interval based on the number of nodes.

The dependency feature allows to suppress alerts from devices located behind the router. If the router goes down, the dependent devices will not be polled. The program can be installed as a Windows service to ensure continuous monitoring.

 

nVision monitors interface status changes and network in/out traffic. Port mapper lists all connected computers and traffic generated by them.

nVision can monitor a server for both incoming and outgoing mail services. nVision not only checks whether mail services respond to simple requests, it also performs real test operations like sending and receiving e-mail. The time required to log in and check for a mail list can be monitored and presented on a chart. nVision can send test e-mails and log the time of this operation. Whenever a mail server is experiencing any problems, you will be notified.

Web servers and URLs You can monitor page load time and content change. The web page load time can be presented on a chart and alerts issued when this time rises unexpectedly. You can also set up the alert when a page changes content. If you have a page with partly dynamic content, nVision shows you the percentage of change (not just a changed/unchanged option).

Monitor Systems, SNMP devices and Services

Systems:

Windows, Linux, Unix servers; routers, switches, VoIP, firewalls and more.

SNMP devices supporting SNMP v1:

TCP/IP Services HTTP, POP3, SMTP, FTP and 50 others. You can monitor their response time and the percentage of requests lost. You can also define new services.

nVision is ideal for monitoring Windows devices and applications.

Windows services Windows service monitor alerts you in case of a service going down and allows you to restart/stop it. Windows performance CPU utilization, memory, disk space, network transfers and many more.

MS SQL, Exchange, IIS and other applications nVision allows you to monitor the health of applications like MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS IIS, Windows system, and many others. Monitoring is performed with WMI and SNMP. This way, you can set up multiple counters to watch the status of your systems and be alerted whenever such parameters like CPU utilization, cache memory, cache hits, queue length, number of sessions, etc. go out of range.

nVision automatically collects information about node hardware and software:

• Computer hardware details: model, CPU, memory, main board, drives, cards, etc.
• Installed applications and Windows updates.

It allows license usage auditing and verification. nVision will alert you in case of program installation or any configuration change. So you don't have to check the database periodically to know that a user has installed illegal software - you will be notified.

Inventory can be collected with WMI or an nVision agent. This way, you can use the method, that best suits your network security configuration (many administrators want to keep WMI closed). The WMI method does not require anything to be installed on remote machines while agents actively send the information to the server, so it does not weaken firewall and node security.

With nVisiion you can remotely monitor user PC's providing insight into user activity.

Optional nVision agents can monitor user activity on Windows computers:

• User login and activity/inactivity time
• Application usage grouped by the activity type (work, gaming, chatting, web browsing, etc.)
• Visited web pages
• User bandwidth usage in the user activity

The agent also provides workstation remote control (VNC compatible).

nVision provides a wide range of charts and reports: real-time and historical charts, system and application performance, network traffic and many more.

It also allows you to create new reports. Every event (alert) raised in the program is logged in the database, providing analysis of the performance of all hosts or the whole network. This will help you to access reports about the most problematic hosts in the network, frequent problems, etc. Reports can be fully customized. It is also very easy to create new ones.

Service and host availability

Reports showing ping and other service response time, lost requests and state change timeline.

Application performance

Specialized reports showing the performance of applications, such as MS SQL, Exchange and IIS.

Interface traffic and utilization

Charts and reports presenting in/out traffic and utilization of node network interfaces.

Inventory

Lists hardware and software installed on the computer.

User activity

Presents user work time, used applications and visited web pages.

The program provides a wide range of alerts and reports: real-time and historical charts, system & application performance, service and host availability, interface traffic and utilization, inventory, user activity.

nVision monitors the network without any agents (except user activity monitoring, which is optional), so there is nothing to install on nodes that need monitoring.

There are no agents to install, maintain or update in order to scan and monitor your network. Using either TCP/IP, SNMP, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) the program can identify and monitor critical network elements.

nVision uses smart monitoring technology, which ensures that every service and counter is monitored as often as possible. It automatically manages the monitoring interval based on the number of nodes.

nVision includes This is a set of handy tools consisting of NetWatch, NetStat, fast trace, lookup, bandwidth, NetCheck, host and port/service scanner and SNMP browser.

 

Axence DataGuard is a software managing the access rights to all I/O ports and physical devices which might be utilized by the users to copy files from corporate machines or to run external software.

Blocking ports and media

• blocking physical devices and interfaces: USB, FireWire, SD sockets, etc., SATA, portable hard disks, floppy disk drives
• blocking devices, which do not support any file systems, i.e.: mobile phones, multimedia players in WPD mode (e.g. MP3 players), cameras, printers,  network adapters, Wi-Fi adapters, Bluetooth, IrDA ports, etc.
• only the data transferring devices are blocked – other peripherals (keyboard, etc.) can be connected

Managing port access rights

• defining the user/group rights to access and copy files
• authorizing corporate devices: flash drives, disk drives, etc. – private devices will be blocked
• full blocking of specific port types for selected machines
• central configuration by means of rules (policies) set for an entire network or selected groups of machines

Auditing operations on portable devices

Saving information about all operations on portable devices for each user:

• connection/disconnection of a flash drive
• reading and copying files to/from a flash drive.

DataGuard includes an alarm system as well.

The Trouble ticket database in in HelpDesk module:

• Trouble ticket database allows the users to report technical problems by means of trouble ticket creation mechanism.
• tickets are solved by the HelpDesk employees;
• Administrators’ canassign to appropriate persons or groups, who are then notified about the assigned problem waiting for solution;
• User can monitor the solution process.
• Trouble ticket database mechanism is based on Web interface.