Electrical and Computer Science

ECE Network Laboratory

Tools in the Lab

The CiscoWorks Routed WAN Management Solution (RWAN) provides a collection of powerful management applications to configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a routed wide-area network. RWAN provides increased visibility into network behavior, assists in quickly identifying performance bottlenecks and long-term performance trends, and provides early detection in optimizing bandwidth and utilization across expensive and critical links in the network.

 

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HP Openview NNM (Network Node Manager) tool is installed on Network management station. NNM is designed to manage any size complex switched network and to quickly pin-point network problems through dynamic root cause analysis (dRCA) and virtual network service state determination.

NNM improves network availability and efficiency through the automatic discovery of the physical network and virtual network services, intelligent monitoring, dynamic root cause analysis, and alarm management.

 

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HP Openview

IPM is a network management application that allows you to monitor the performance of multi-protocol networks. IPM measures the response time and availability of IP networks on a hop-by-hop (router-to-router) basis. It also measures response time between routers and the mainframe in SNA (Systems Network Architecture) networks.

 

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Cisco Internetwork Performance Monitor

Ethereal is well-known “network sniffer”, used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing platforms, including UNIX, Linux, and Windows.

Ethereal is "free software"; you can download it without paying any license fee. The version of Ethereal you download isn't a "demo" version, with limitations not present in a "full" version; it is the full version.

The latest release is the version 0.9.14. The more information is available on http://www.ethereal.com/.

Etherreal

· FTP Server

· TFTP Serevr

· Secure SSH

· WinSCP

· Tiger – vulnerability scanner

· Tripwire – Integrity checker

· TCPWrapper – network protocol tool

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