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Monitoring and Alerts
Route Explorer’s real-time monitoring and analysis of your network’s routing topology provides the following unique benefits:- Real-time, routing based detection of failures provide the fastest notification of outages and performance degradations
- Helps minimize user complaints
- Reduces the outage detection time
- Reduces the total cost (productivity and lost revenue) of outages
- Helps avoid lost investment in redundancy due to an undetected failing secondary path or an undetected failed primary path rerouted to a secondary path
- Helps discover misconfiguarations and human error before they seriously affect users
- Detects routing instabilities that don’t cause an outright service outage but do affect performance or may indicate hardware failures waiting to happen
- Learns and monitors networks of all sizes – multi-homed enterprises to multi-domain global networks. Detects issues in any corner of the network from comprehensive knowledge of the entire network
- Creates an accurate baseline of the network from complete history of routing events. Monitors redundancy against the baseline and generates alerts when impaired
- Route Explorer’s passive monitoring and analysis places little or no traffic burden on the network while providing real-time notifications and requiring little or no intervention from network operations personnel
- Sends alerts to SNMP managers or Syslog for alert consolidation and to simplify centralized network management
Ten ways Route Explorer can help you monitor your network better
Here are some ways in which Route Explorer can help to monitor your network like no other NMS tool can, from getting an early warning of a potential outage to getting instant notification of an outage or performance degradation just beginning:- Get an instant assessment of your IP network’s health with Route Explorer’s unified routing topology map and real-time routing updates. [HTML] [PDF]
- See which routers are advertising default routes throughout your multi-protocol network. [HTML] [PDF]
- Monitor the violations of your routing policy. [HTML] [PDF]
- Monitor the availability of services by monitoring routing prefixes. [HTML] [PDF]
- Place important routing prefixes on a watch list for alerting on changes that may affect performance or reachability. [HTML] [PDF]
- Monitor the redundancy between ASes and receive a real-time alert when redundancy is reduced. [HTML] [PDF]
- Place important routing adjacencies such as WAN links on a watch list to get the earliest warning of possible outage. [HTML] [PDF]
- Get alerted on any prefixes flapping anywhere in the network, to identify possible impending hardware failure or service performance degradation. [HTML] [PDF]
- Place important end-to-end service routes such as delay sensitive VoIP routes on a watch list and get alerted when they get rerouted. [HTML] [PDF]
- Get alerted on possible BGP routing instabilities, router configuration errors or routing policy violations. [HTML] [PDF]
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