Observer Analyzer
Observer Analyzer
Observer Analyzer monitors unified communications (UC) deployments, network performance, applications, and troubleshooting on complex networks including VM environments.
With robust and comprehensive analysis, Observer Analyzer offers immediate issue resolution and builds long-term performance improvements. It provides the complete package needed by network managers, architects, and engineers to achieve peak performance:
Key Features
Application Performance
Reduce downtime and increase productivity with in-depth, contextual application analysis. Get response time data for thousands of applications plus performance metrics,transaction detail, and predictive analytics that show the network impact of new application deployments.
Expert Analysis
Get immediate intelligence in both real time and post capture using Expert Events for TCP, UDP, VoIP, Wireless, and more. It tracks and organizes common services, flags response performance by severity, tracks port-based protocols for slow response, and differentiates between network and application problems with local traffic and WAN/Internet traffic distinction. Enhanced HTTP application monitoring offers deep insight into how web-based applications are operating, as well as how users are accessing IT resources, including browser type and operating system.
Conversation Analytics
The only network analyzer that offers Connection Dynamics, it graphically breaks down individual network conversations piece-by-piece, pinpointing which request or response is causing the issue. Retransmissions and dropped packets are flagged for instant recognition of the issue source. Spaces between conversation sections identify latency and response time issues. TCP/UDP Expert Events show excessive retransmissions, and provide an explanation of the problem and possible causes.
Trending
Use network trending to forecast IT needs or justify upgrades with comparative reports. View and analyze network traffic stats over periods of time — from days to years. Trending metrics can be broadly applied to meet diverse challenges like translating web traffic into Internet usage data to appropriately bill departments on service use.
Troubleshooting
Perform in-depth troubleshooting with an interface that provides intuitive workflows for quick problem resolution. Deep drill-down capabilities with root-cause analysis pinpoint issues at the source with accuracy and ease. High-performance packet capture, decode, and filtering capabilities offer additional support.
Triggers & Alarms
Analyzer deploys ongoing monitoring of activity levels and immediately sends prioritized alerts when network fluctuations cross your pre-set levels. It gives you the following alert options: emails, paging, trouble tickets, or kick starting an automated packet capture.
Features also include flagging activities or errors from a pre-defined list; setting custom notifications based on any filter; obtaining email with virus information (including source and destination); and placing triggers on any WLAN activity.
Packet Capture
Analyzer’s packet capture, decode, and filtering capabilities are second to none. It lets you view individual packets and decode for over 740 primary protocols and countless sub-protocols. Observer filters packets quickly and efficiently by address, address range, protocol offsets, and protocol presets using the intuitive GUI and by-command line.
“No other vendor could touch the Observer Platform for its combination of breadth of functionality and affordability.”
Howard Arnault-Ham, Head of IT at Aardman Animations
Observer Analyzer offers three product options based on feature and functionality levels.
Observer Analyzer: Standard Edition
bserver Analyzer Standard Edition offers packet capture, decode, statistics, and more. Solve network issues through root-cause analysis, manage changes proactively through trigger and alarms, apply trending metrics for predictive planning, and more. Get deep and ongoing monitoring.
Observer Analyzer: Expert Edition
Need a network troubleshooter with the speed and muscle complex applications demand? The integrated Expert Edition has every robust feature of Standard Edition with added power to pinpoint problems at the source, and automate the investigation and resolution processes. The Expert Analysis functionality provides the knowledge of 700 Expert Events that alert you to problems, with conversation analysis sections for TCP, UDP, ICMP, Voice and Video Conferencing, and Wireless.
You also get Connection Dynamics for graphical conversation views right up to the application layer. Plus Application Performance Detail that places app issues in the context of its IT environment; and Stream Reconstruction, VoIP tools, and MultiHop Analysis. Use Expert Edition power to keep end-users satisfied and increase uptime.
Observer Analyzer: Suite
Our premium software console is packed with every feature the Standard Edition and Expert Edition offers, and then some. Suite is a web publishing service, stealth troubleshooter, and complex problem solver – with added bells and whistles to make network managers work smarter, not harder. It provides tools to generate and share customized reports on the web, with optional custom decode modules for proprietary use.
Compare Editions
| Standard | Expert | Suite | |
| Packet Capture/Decode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Financial Protocol Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find Virus and Hack Signatures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Statistical Drill Down | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Triggers and Alarms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Error Tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-Time Statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Network Trending/Reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| IPv6 Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trace File Aggregation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SRTP Support | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Application Analysis Trending | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Stream Reconstruction | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Expert Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Application Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| URL-Based Tracking | ✓ | ✓ | |
| VoIP Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| VoIP Systems Supported | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MPLS Monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SSL decryption | ✓ | ✓ | |
| NetFlow Collector | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Video monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Video metrics | ✓ | ✓ | |
| End-user experience monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Third-party decode and analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LTE Support | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SNMP Device Management | ✓ | ||
| RMON Support | ✓ | ||
| Switch Station Locator | ✓ | ||
| Web Publishing Service | ✓ |
Please review this link for information on minimum system requirements.
Observer Analyzer is part of the Observer Performance Management Platform where each product seamlessly works together to create IT management solutions for complex environments. It also connects with larger enterprise IT initiatives, including integration with IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView.
Analyzer is often connected with GigaStor, and Apex to increase management performance power.
- Use Analyzer with GigaStor for long-term data capture and in-depth analysis on historical events
- Analyzer is also used with GigaStor for forensics analysis and stream reconstruction
- Analyzer pairs with Apex for high-level or aggregate reporting, enterprise-wide reporting, and global alerting
Observer Analyzer deployment is flexible, intuitive, and problem-free.
The Observer Analyzer software is most frequently deployed on a network engineer’s laptop and used for diverse purposes like connecting to Observer GigaStor and probes; acquiring data via local interfaces like wireless and Gigabit cards; and providing advanced Expert Analysis to packet captures acquired by third party devices. Additionally, some organizations may choose a centrally deployed Analyzer Suite for ongoing trending-data monitoring and analysis or the processing of alarms and alerts.
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