porttracker features

porttracker v2.2 Features

GUI Enhancements

The porttracker GUI now has an enhanced menu structure for easier and more intuitive access to the porttracker appliance features. Other GUI enhancements include:

• *NEW* Support for wild cards and ranges in IP filters.
• *NEW* Drop-down multi selector added in reports.
• *NEW* Scrollbars in Tool Tips will have vertical scroll bars.
  

Additional Default Views

The porttracker GUI now includes the following default views:

• *NEW* End Devices
• *NEW* Infrastructure / Default
• *NEW* Infrastructure / Slow switches
• *NEW* Port View / Default
• *NEW* Port View / Multiple Devices on a port
  

System Utilities

Many system functions that were previously only accessible via the text-mode management console interface are now also accessible via the GUI. These system functions include:

• *NEW*Update firmware
• *NEW* Reboot appliance
• *NEW* Shutdown appliance
• *NEW* Collect Support
• *NEW* Restore backup
• *NEW* Toggle TCP Dump
• *NEW* Start/Delete Network scan
• *NEW* Restart Service

Views and Reports

Summary

• Selectable Columns
• Customizable multi-column Filters
• 2-column Sorting
• Saved Views
• Personalized "Default" Views
• Scheduled reports in HTML/CSV format via email
• Complete Audit history of a switch, port, and end device
• telnet to infrastructure device interface
• Summary view showing the number of Infrastructure, Ports, and End Devices found during the last operations.
• Totals for Current Views

 

For first time visitors

With flexible filtering, views can be created to meet a wide variety of specific reporting needs. The user can select columns and filters and save them as favorites to be recalled at a later time.

porttracker can displays the following collected and derived fields:

 

End Devices view

End Devices view displays end device connectivity information including:

• DNS Name (FQDN)
• IP Address
• MAC Address
• Switch Name
• Switch IP
• Slot/Port
• Admin/Link Status
• Speed/Duplex
• VLAN Number and Name
• Port Alias and Description
• VTP info
• First/Last Seen Times
• Comments

 

Infrastructure View

Infrastructure view displays information about the switch and port capacity information including:

• Switch Name, IP Address, and FQDN
• Total, Free Ports (not in use 'now'), and Available Ports (not used for a period of time)
• First Seen, Last Seen, and Last Changed times
• Description, Location, and Services

Port View

*NEW* v2.2 can configure the appliance to exclude a port from the Port View. The appliance will treat excluded ports as trunk ports in subsequent polls.

Port view displays interface information as well as device type for all physical connections on the switch, including:

• Switch name and IP
• Last seen time for the switch
• Slot/Port number
• Speed/Duplex
• Port MAC
• Admin/Link Status
• Last Changed time
• Port Alias and Description
• Detected Device Type and count (End device, Phone, Infrastructure, Nothing Found)
• Packets and Errors

Filters

Filters are used to mine the potentially large amount of data in the porttracker database and show with precision the desired information. Multiple filters can be applied between fields and within fields to display exactly what is required.

Filters include:

• AND, OR, NOT
• GREATER THAN, LESS THAN
• BEFORE, AFTER, Relative Dates (e.g. in the last 'n' weeks)
• Network/Mask, *.*

One or two columns can also be sorted in Ascending or Descending order.

Saved Views and Reports

Filters, column selection, rows per page and sort order can all be customized and saved for later use.

A user can choose their own “default” view.

These saved views can also be turned into reports, and emailed in either CSV or HTML on a scheduled basis.