Enterprise-Class Performance and Security Monitoring and Reporting

EZ Suite Vision features give you visibility into the operation of your wireless network system with advanced wireless LAN monitoring and reporting capabilities.

When you implement EZ Suite Vision features in your Connect EZ Solution Suite you can get a single web-based console to discover, configure and monitor your entire wireless network. With the click of a button you can see both real-time data and trend reports for every user, device, and segment of your network. In addition to unparalleled network monitoring you get consolidation of the core management functionality you need to support even the largest wireless networks with tens of thousands of users: network discovery, configuration management, reporting, alerting, auditing, and more.

Identify, Verify, Report, Act

• Identify the status of network security and performance for your distributed Wi-Fi system
• Verify the identity of users and apply consistent security and access policies
• Report on the state of the wireless LAN with management reporting tools

Sophisticated Control and Management for Your Distributed Network

• Scalable from a single building floor to a 1500-building multi-state corporate infrastructure
• Local control of each building with centralized management of the entire system
• Location services to find out the physical location of an individual user, an intruder, or a rogue access point
• Automatic fail-safe mechanisms to protect against network problems and minimize downtime

Multi-Vendor Product Integration

EZ Suite Vision capabilities are not limited to managing a single vendors hardware. In a multi-vendor environment the features and capabilities under the EZ Suite Vision umbrella span across the various hardware and software platforms to pull the entire system together into a cohesive management infrastructure. Simple status monitoring and basic statistics are available for any IP-based device on the wireless or wired network. Close integration and full control integration is available with equipment and software from the following manufacturers:

What are some examples of capabilities that are part of the EZ Suite Vision feature set?

• Real-time monitoring for every user, AP, wireless LAN controller and wireless device
• Comprehensive and customizable inventory reports, usage reports and trend reports
• Automatic report delivery scheduling via email
• Automatic device discovery to detect any device that is connected to your network
• All wireless policies and configuration is defined centrally across multiple, separate master wireless LAN controllers
• Detects equipment with out-of-date software and distributes vendor-provided software patches and updates across your network
• Audits device configurations to alert you if any device configuration has been modified locally
• Monitors all components of the wired network that impact wireless network performance
• Monitors multiple brands of access points in a converged network infrastructure
• Sends automated alarms and alerts
• Provides vendor-neutral device management
• Integrates with Network Management System solutions like HP Network Node Manager, IBM Netcool and others.

Who needs the advanced services provided by EZ Suite Vision?

• Companies that need to control and monitor the performance and security of their wireless LAN
• Universities that provide Wi-Fi access for students but also want protected access for staff as well as maintenance personnel and guests across the entire campus
• Hospitals that need to provide consistent user access control for doctors and nurses throughout the entire medical complex
• Hotels and resorts that want to grant network access privileges to guests and who may want to determine where a guest is presently located on the property
• Airports that offer Wi-Fi subscription services and that need to track the usage of their Wi-Fi network users
• Entertainment venues that need to control wireless ticket kiosks

"When your only tool is a hammer, every job starts to look like a nail..." A network manager or field support engineer has a broad range of tools at their disposal for managing a wireless network. Software network analysis tools are available that allow the capture and decoding of network packets and which often include expert system analysis of system behavior. A network protocol analyzer is an excellent tool for detailed packet-level analysis of specific network problems but this is not the right tool for general security monitoring and performance analysis. EZ Suite Guard provides the right tools for the on-going monitoring, intrusion detection, and performance assessment of your wireless network. (It also provides basic protocol analysis capabilities to help guard against improper protocol-level behavior!)

Network Monitoring and Management 

The day-to-day operation and management of a larger wireless network requires automated monitoring of remote devices. EZ Suite Vision provides statistical and usage reporting, and problem alerting,  for the individual components of a Connect EZ Solution Suite.

Network monitoring is the systematic checking of key performance metrics to assure that Quality of Service and network capacity are within predetermined boundaries. Analysis of network statistics (performance metrics) can indicate the overall health level of a network at a given point in time, but determining the overall health level of a network today is only the most basic of troubleshooting techniques. It is squarely in the realm of “firefighting”—responding to problems as they occur. Optimally, you would determine both whether the network is healthy today and whether it will be healthy tomorrow. This is the proactive realm of baseline and benchmark measurement.

The interactive behavior of communicators on the network can be monitored and statistics concerning performance of the network can be evaluated to confirm that they haven't exceeded allowable limits. By establishing an effective network monitoring solution you will:

• Monitor complete real-time and historical performance metrics for the network
• Isolate and describe potential network problems before they impact the end-user community
• Obtain measurements and trend information to allow for accurate capacity planning
• Make effective use of your available network bandwidth
• Monitor performance to validate service level agreements
• Observe trends well in advance of the point where they become visible to the end-users
• Respond to network outages and errors without having to wait until an end-user calls to complain (“proactive network management”)
• Categorize network performance to help prioritize the work flow of the support team

When you go to the doctor the first thing that happens is that you get a thermometer stuck in your mouth and a blood pressure cuff wrapped around your arm. The doctor looks in your throat, your ears, and your eyes. Perhaps you get the little rubber hammer on your knee to check your reflexes. The doctor listens to your heart and lungs with a stethoscope. In medicine there are a set of fundamental biological measurements and observations that are made to make a general assessment of your overall state of health. The exact same thing is true when assessing the health of your network. You monitor and assess a set of fundamental performance metrics to see if your network is healthy.