PathSolutions Switchmonitor and SwitchMonitor VOIP

Powerful Network Performance Monitoring System made easy and affordable! SwitchMonitor tracks traffic flows in, out, and through your network switches provides you with an unprecedented picture of the performance of your network. You can instantly know which interfaces have the highest utilization, and where network errors come from.

If you use VoIP on your network, SwitchMonitor VoIP adds features designed specifically to increase voice quality.

SwitchMonitor: Total Network Visibility

SwitchMonitor puts you in complete control of your network. It constantly watches all of your switches, routers and links, monitoring for any faults or performance problems. You'll see the results on a simple web-based dashboard that lets you understand your network status at a glance. And, if your network has a serious problem, SwitchMonitor will notify you immediately via e-mail or pager.

Advanced Notification

SwitchMonitor also ensures the reliability of your critical WAN links. If a link goes down or becomes congested, you'll be notified immediately. SwitchMonitor's historical utilization graphs let you schedule network downtime and plan for capacity expansion. And availability monitoring makes it easy to verify SLA compliance.

If something does go wrong on your network, SwitchMonitor makes it a snap to fix. SwitchMonitor automatically diagnoses common problems and suggests solutions. You can drill down into every device and link, examining detailed configuration information. SwitchMonitor even logs historical utilization and error information, allowing you to troubleshoot intermittent problems.

Rapid Deployment

Unlike other solutions, SwitchMonitor deploys in just minutes on your network. It doesn't require expensive, dedicated servers, web servers or databases—SwitchMonitor can even be installed on your desktop. And SwitchMonitor automatically discovers your network, configures itself, and starts monitoring—no need to set up complex SNMP object queries.

SwitchMonitor offers the following capabilities:

Dynamically updating network map: Shows performance of all critical WAN links on one pannable map interface. (More...)
Advanced performance monitoring: Automatically monitors utilization, packet rate, broadcast rate and error rate of every network link.
Performance trending: Tracks and displays historical utilization and error rates for every network link. Exports data in CSV format for further analysis.
Availability monitoring: Tracks and summarizes availability for each device on your network.
Outage alerting: Sends alerts via pager or email for link failures, device failures, excessive utilization and excessive errors rates.
TFTP server: A TFTP server is included to help with network device configuration backups.
Syslog server: Syslog messages can be received logged and alerts can be generated based on the received message.
Auto-diagnosis: Network Prescription™ diagnoses common problems and recommends solutions in plain english. (Sample)
Network dashboard: Displays network status at a glance for all the devices on your network.
Emailed Daily health report: Emails report on network status to keep everyone informed about what's happening (request a sample).
Top-10 lists: Displays the heaviest transmitters, receivers, broadcasters and error generators on your network.
Network inventory: Automatically discovers all devices on the network and gathers key configuration information such as serial number and OS version.
System locator: Automatically locates the switch port to which a system is attached.
Device drilldown: Displays detailed information about a device and all of its interfaces.
Support contract manager: Tracks information about support contracts and automatically alerts you when they are near expiration.

SwitchMonitor Editions

SwitchMonitor

SwitchMonitor VOIP

SwitchMonitor VOIP
Testimonials

"You have to try SwitchMonitor in order to believe it. It gives us a god-like control over the network."
- Edward Lee
Network Engineer, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

"It only takes about five minutes to learn. None of us at Superior will ever become net experts. But that's okay, SwitchMonitor tells us where to look."
- Dave Schmidgall
MIS Manager
Superior Industries

"SwitchMonitor gives us the ability to pin-point current and historical utilization on any interface in our network. This gives us the ability to detect over and under-subscribed network links, physical errors on interfaces, virus outbreaks, and suspicious activities."
- Brian Tran
IT Manager
Marvell Semiconductor

Flash Presentations

Advanced Alerting
Buy vs. Build
Total Network Visibility

Switchmonitor Device Summary Screen
Launch Interactive Demo

Switchmonitor Network Health Screen
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Switch Monitor VoIP

Forget the Guesswork – Get to the Bottom of VoIP Call Quality Problems. Now.

As a network administrator, you know that problems with VoIP systems occur within weeks – sometimes, within days -- of installation. Users report phone quality problems that include echo, garbled conversations, and dropped calls. That's no surprise. VoIP systems stress your existing network in new and unpredictable ways. Jitter, latency, and packet loss don't matter when you're sending email or moving files around.

It is the real-time, performance-critical nature of VoIP systems that bring undiagnosed network problems to the surface – problems that represent the unseen potential for unpredictable call quality problems and service outages.

Now there is a tool that helps you avoid and eliminate the network problems that degrade VoIP system performance. SwitchMonitor VoIP provides capabilities no other product can give you. Not only does it provide detailed IP telephony-related statistics such as latency, jitter, packet loss and MOS score, but it actually analyzes the call path between VoIP phones in real time, determining not only that a problem exists, but telling you precisely where the problem is and what's causing it.

There are a few tools on the market that claim to help you manage your network to support VoIP, but only SwitchMonitor VoIP gives you the information that you need to find and resolve network problems before VoIP problems occur.

SwitchMonitor VoIP

SwitchMonitor VoIP gives you a new pair of eyes that enable you to see through the network cloud and pin down the degradation issues that cause VoIP problems. In a single, easy-to-use interface, you get:

You'll get details on every VoIP telephone in your system, including:

An inventory of connected phones with port-specific status information.
The ability to analyze the call path between two phones.
The ability to see real-time utilization for every link in a call path.
Hard data on jitter, latency, packet loss, and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for every monitored device.

And because you also get the analytical power of our standard SwitchMonitor product, you'll be able to isolate and repair the root problem faster than with any other VoIP tool now on the market.

SwitchMonitor VoIP Feature Details

Switchmonitor VOIP Phones Inventory
Launch Interactive Demo

Phones Inventory

One of the biggest headaches for growing VoIP systems is tracking the addition and location of new telephones. You'll love the SwitchMonitor VoIP Phones Inventory because it lists all phones connected to every monitored device in your network. You'll not only be able to see every phone in the system, but you'll be able to resolve problems faster because you'll have the right information at your fingertips.

You'll get details on every VoIP telephone in your system, including:

MAC address.
Phone manufacturer.
The switch port to which the phone is connected, plus utilization and error statistics for that port.
Phone IP address (when available from the switch).

Call Path Analysis

Now you can actually see the status of an entire call path in one view – in real time. With SwitchMonitor VoIP's Call Path tool, you'll be solving VoIP-related issues in half the time. You'll be able to analyze what's going on as the call is happening through immediate display of:

All devices in the call path.
All links in the call path -- including all layer-2 links.
A graphical display for each link, showing link utilization and error rates over the past 24 hours. And for links passing through Cisco routers, you'll even see the link's queuing configuration.

Switchmonitor VOIP Current Utilization
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Current Utilization of a Call Path

The SwitchMonitor VoIP Call Path tool also gives you current utilization of every link in a call path:

You'll be able to watch how the network behaves and analyze potential problems while a call is in progress. The data you need to resolve intermittent call quality issues is at your fingertips.

Data on Jitter, Latency, Packet Loss, and MOS

SwitchMonitor VoIP provides detailed information on jitter, latency, packet loss, and MOS for every monitored device. This information is available in a historical format so it's easy to determine when problems occurred and drill down to discover why they occurred.

Call Simulator

Want to simulate a number of VoIP calls from one location to another? The included Call Simulator tracks latency, jitter, and packet loss along with MOS for any number of calls to any location on the network. Remote agents are not required to be deployed -- just the one simulator. If an anamoly is discovered, it's easy to drop into SwitchMonitor to locate the specific link and exact cause of the anamoly.