Network Monitoring and Network Configuration Management Increase Network Availability

Configuration errors account for nearly half the outages in a typical enterprise network. To increase network availability and avoid outages, many IT organizations have turned to TrueControl to manage their network devices. TrueControl automatically records and stores device configurations when network changes occur. This information becomes an invaluable tool for diagnosing and correcting configuration errors. Network engineers can use TrueControl's web-based user interface to quickly answer the following questions:

• Which device configuration changed
• What exactly was changed in the configuration
• When was the change made
• Who made the change
• Why the change was made
• How the change affected the network

TrueControl assists network engineers in managing availability by automatically collecting interface information, OS versions, and routing tables for targeted troubleshooting. With real-time change detection, network engineers can view who made a change and match planned changes to actual changes. Finally, network engineers can also define custom diagnostics to isolate a problem and quickly restore a device to a stable configuration.

TrueControl increases network availability by:

• Providing multiple mechanisms for real-time change detection
• Highlighting configuration deltas via an easy to use Web-based interface
• Creating customizable change notifications
• Enabling recurring schedules for configuration snapshots and polling
• Restoring to prior stable configurations for fast recovery from unwanted changes