wins monthly meeting wins support (610) 990-8686 11/07/2008

WINS Monthly Meeting

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WINS Support (610) 990-868611/07/2008

Agenda• Introductions

• PAIU Update

• WINS Contract Update

• Looking for Trouble

• Network Monitoring

• Network Tools

• Question & Answers

Introductions• Name• Title• Location

• New Fortinet Sales Rep : • Michael Harth• Major Account Manager• Fortinet- The New Generation of Secure Gateways• Office: 484.924.9839• Mobile: 610.608.4635

PAIU UpdateCurrently the DCIU and Widener are discussing known options

New options may be discovered

No decisions have been made

Review 2 Options

Minimum Hardware Cost : $29,391.00

WINS Contract UpdatePeter Shoudy is working with the DCIU to come up with a mutually agreeable approach that will allow the contract to be renewed again when the current renewal expires June 30, 2009

Letter of Intent was sent to the DCIU on October 23rd to extend the existing agreement one year and allow for districts to opt out, providing Widener written notice by March 1, 2009.

Looking for Trouble• Enough politics… let’s talk tech!

• The network is running GREAT or is it???

• When was the last time you looked at :– DNS Server Event Log– DHCP Server Event Log– Firewall Logs– Router Logs– Switch Logs

Syslog Server Software (Syslog Watcher Pro)http://www.snmpsoft.com/syslogwatcher/

Demo on NOC 05 XP PC – https://147.31.180.181:2150/invite/i5q2f9cs4c5hm1v5cw1hl8f0vvebwoll

Network Monitoring• Whats Up Gold – http://147.31.180.177

– http://www.whatsupgold.com/products/whatsup_gold_premium/index.aspx– Up to 25 devices - $995 – Up to 100 devices - $2,595 – Up to 300 devices - $3,795 – Up to 500 devices - $4,995 – Up to 1000 devices - $6,995 – Up to 2500 devices - $10,995

– Buy from our sales team– Phone:+781-676-5700– 1-800-793-4825 (US/Canada)– Fax:+781-676-5710

Network Monitoring• Statseeker - http://147.31.148.30/

– http://www.statseeker.com/Product

– Freecall:   1-866-772-8638

– We purchased in 2003 for $15,000 + $5,000 for maintenence

Network Monitoring

• Offsite Web Monitoring (1 Year for 1-5 Devices $50/device)• http://www.securityspace.com/netmon/std_index.html?refid=1020296821

• Visual Pulse Professional (vipc-0010s 10-elements $460 )• http://www.visualpulse.com/

• Wireless Network Management - • http://www.airwave.com/airwave-demo/• http://amp.widener.edu

Network Tools• DNS Tester Tool (free)

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DNSTester.aspx

• Wireshark – Packet Capture (free)•http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

• Solar Winds Engineers Edition ($1,390 for single license)http://www.solarwinds.com/products/toolsets/engineer.aspx

•Visual Route Advanced (vr-0001a 1-user $125.95 )http://www.visualroute.com/

•Simple Com Tools (free)http://www.simplecomtools.com/udptesttool.htmlhttp://www.simplecomtools.com/tcptesttool.html

Questions & AnswersNext Meeting December 5th, 2008!