ntwrk monitoring capsa
DESCRIPTION
Network Monitoring using Colasoft Capsa 7TRANSCRIPT
NETWORK MONITORING TOOL: COLASOFT CAPSA 7
-Amit Singh Dahal
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OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Capsa 7 Features
• Capsa 7 Advanced Features
• System Requirement to Install Capsa 7
• Capsa 7 UI
• Comparing Capsa 7 with Pandora FMS and Nagios
INTRODUCTION
• Portable network analyzer from Colasoft
• monitors the network traffic transmitted over a local network
• helps network administrators troubleshoot network problems
• adopts new user interface style of Microsoft Office 2007, which intends to display analysis statistics in a more simple-straight and graphical style
CAPSA 7 FEATURES:
• Network traffic analysis
• Network communication monitoring
• Network problems diagnosis
• Network security analysis
• Network performance detecting
• Network protocol analysis
ADVANCED FEATURES
• Captures packets from a single or multiple network adapters
• Analyzes the header & contents of each packet
• Provides statistics on MAC & IP address
• Analyze Protocol (Data link -> Application Layer)
• Diagnoses different kinds of network problems
• Presents statistics in graphs
• Alerts Computer network anomalies
• Outputs packets & logs to files
• Logs DNS, web browsing, Email, FTP & IM services
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT TO INSTALL CAPSA 7Minimum requirements
• P4 2.8GHz CPU
• 2 GB RAM
• Internet Explorer 6.0
Recommended requirements
• Intel Core Duo 2.4GHz CPU
• 4 GB RAM or more
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Supported windows operating systems
• Windows XP (SP 1 or later) *
• Windows Server 2003*
• Windows Server 2008*
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
CAPSA 7 UI
CAPSA 7 UI (MAIN)
COMPARING CAPSA 7 WITH PANDORA FMS AND NAGIOS
NameIP SLA
ReportsLogical
GroupingAuto
DiscoverySNMP Syslog
Triggers / Alerts
PlatformData
Storage Method
Access Control
Nagios Via plugin Yes Via plugin Via plugin Via plugin Yes C, phpFlat file,SQL
Yes
Pandora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesPerl, PHP, C++
MySQL,PostgreSQL,Oracle
Yes
Capsa 7 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Colasoft Oracle Yes
REFERENCES:
• http://www.colasoft.com/capsa/network-solution.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa
• http://www.colasoft.com/resources/product-documentations.php
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyxCLll04c