Encore Networks
Network Manager™

Configuration and Management of Large Scale Networks

Configuring and managing a large scale network is no easy task. With 100’s or even 1000’s of locations a network management platform is essential for quickly indentifying problems and maintaining network availability. Encore recognized this essential need for management capabilities and has developed the ENCORE NETWORK MANAGER™ (ENM)

Encore’s ENM is a customizable network management platform that is based on the popular SolarWinds Orion product. Encore has customized the product to meet our customer’s special needs for configuration and management.

Increased Network Availability and Performance
ENM enables network engineers to quickly detect, diagnose and resolve network performance problems and outages. ENM offers many out-of-the-box network-centric views that are designed to deliver the critical information a network engineer needs. Furthermore, ENM sends these alerts via e-mail, pager, SNMP trap, text-to-speech, Syslog messages and more.

 
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Key Features of the ENM
  • Monitors and analyzes real-time, in-depth network performance metrics for all Encore routers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices
  • Provides a customizable web interface that supports multiple views by user and department, as well as map views of your global network
  • Provides a configuration server that automatically downloads configurations to newly discovered devices.
  • Download server that maintains the current software load of all Encore devices and automatically downloads new versions of code to all devices
  • Includes GPS tracking and alerting of network devices
  • For Encore cellular routers the ENM provides specific cellular information including signal strength, SNR, and other configurable parameters.
  • Enables advanced alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states
  • Scales to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers for up to 100,000 devices
 

Supporting Features

Fully Customizable Web Views
ENM Web-based views can be customized to meet the needs of small companies, large enterprises and service providers. Views are fully customizable and Web accounts can be limited based upon department, geographic area, customer ID or any user-defined field.

Custom MIB Support
Customers can create a custom poller to monitor any SNMP-enabled device value that has a MIB, which amounts to virtually any statistic that a network device records. Examples of custom MIB monitoring include monitoring temperature on a switch, fan speed on a router, and battery status on a UPS.

Network Maps
ENM web-enabled maps provide a real-time pictorial status of the network topology with the ability to click and drill into regions, departments, and devices.

Syslog Viewer
ENM includes a Syslog Viewer which can receive, process, forward, and send syslog messages. Advanced features such as alerting, filtering on severity/facility rules, and parsing messages are also included.

Sophisticated Alerting
ENM powerful Alert Engine allows you to configure alerts for hundreds of different network scenarios and includes the ability to define device dependencies. For example, users can set up correlated alerts, sustained alerts, and escalated alerts.

Advanced Reporting Engine
ENMAdvanced Reporting Engine allows you to pull the data that you need from the ENM database and display it on the Web or directly in the Report Writer.

SNMP Compatibility
ENM allows more secure polling of SNMP values from any device that supports SNMP v3. ENM can also receive SNMP traps, which are specially-configured notifications sent by network devices when unusual events are detected on that node. ENM can also monitor elements on custom SNMP ports other than the default port of 161.

Open Architecture
ENM uses an open SQL Server database, Windows-based polling engines and an interactive, customizable web interface for viewing the network status and statistics. ENM uses industry-standard MIBs and protocols to monitor the network and does not require the use of remote probes or agents.

Integration with SolarWinds Toolsets
With a SolarWinds Toolset installed on your desktop you can “right-click” on a node or interface in ENM and directly launch a Toolset application.

 
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