Network Sonar

Fastest Enterprise Network Discovery Available

Today’s networks are constantly changing; users are adding and removing devices from the network often without following proper procedures. A detailed inventory of your network is often inaccurate the day you complete the inventory. Network Engineers need an automated, software inventory solution to ensure network inventory records are accurate.  SolarWinds provides that solution with the fastest, most accurate enterprise network inventory application available.

Does NOT Require Any Remote Agents or Pollers

Network Sonar’s SNMP network discovery engine creates a detailed inventory database of your data network. The Sonar discovery application does not require the deployment of any special agents or data collectors; Sonar uses standard SNMP to collect detailed network inventory.  Multiple Class C’s can be scanned in a matter of minutes.  Sonar comes with several default reports and graphs to visually display your network inventory.

FAST, High End Discovery.

Network Sonar has been benchmarked on and was able to discover a network of over 500,000 devices on over 3,000 subnets in just under 4 hours.  This test was conducted using a desktop computer running Windows NT.  No network is too large or complex for SolarWinds SNMP Network Sonar application.

Simply provide a list of community strings utilized throughout your network and a “seed router”. The SNMP Network Sonar Wizard walks you through the rest of the set-up in less than a minute.  Simple, Fast, Efficient, and Very Powerful.  The advanced searching algorithms allow you to customize the discovery to minimize and virtually eliminate the risk of creating unnecessary load on your network.  While some inventory applications just pound your network the SNMP Network Sonar application from SolarWinds was designed to perform during business hours with minimal overhead.  The discovery is so tunable so you can even effectively run Network Sonar over either FDDI or even a dial-up modem.

SNMP Discovery Capabilities

Network Sonar uses DNS, ICMP and SNMP to discover:

• Networks
• Subnets Masks
• Devices
• Type, Location, Software, Release, etc.
• Interfaces
• DNS
• IP Addresses on each Interface
• Interface Speed
• MAC Addresses
• And much more…

One of the options of Network Sonar is to build a Microsoft Access Database of all data elements while it performs the discovery.  This type of database is ideal whether you are responsible for day to day maintenance or are performing due diligence prior to an acquisition.  Network Engineers can then use this relational inventory database to compare to maintenance records, asset inventory records or depreciation tables.

Additional Network Discovery Software

The SolarWinds Engineer’s Edition Toolset is a collection of 49 network management applications and utilities designed by network engineers, for network engineers.  This network management toolset contains applications for fault and performance monitoring, discovery and mapping, and configuration and compliance.  Download a free evaluation version of the Engineer’s Network Management Toolset to see more SNMP network discovery and network inventory related software.

SolarWinds Network Sonar uses an SNMP discovery engine to create a detailed discovery database of a high speed data network.

It is the fastest discovery engine in the industry for complex, multi-vendor networks. Multiple Class C’s can be scanned in a matter of minutes. Network Sonar comes with several default reports and graphs to visually display an inventory. Network Sonar has been benchmarked on and was able to discover a network of over 500,000 devices on over 3,000 subnets in just under 4 hours.

Network Sonar can build a Microsoft Access Database of all data elements while it performs the discovery – even devices that do not support SNMP. It uses DNS, ICMP and SNMP to discover:

• • Networks
• • Subnet Masks
• • Devices
• • Type, location, software, releases, etc
• • Interfaces
• • DNS
• • IP Address on each interface
• • Interface speed
• • MAC Address

With serveral different reports preloaded with Network Sonar, inventory graphs can easily be generated.

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