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In-Depth Reports

NetVigil's crown jewels, its reports and statistical information, provide details on fault management, performance/capacity planning and SLAs (service-level agreements). Despite the huge amount of information NetVigil stores, reports are displayed in an easy-to-read format and categorized appropriately. NetVigil provides two types of canned reports: technical summaries and business-impact reports. The technical summaries include CPU utilization, packet loss, active network interfaces and performance. Data collection is based on SNMP MIB II, and NetVigil includes Host MIB right out of the box. Each graph can be drilled down to view more details, such as 95th percentile stats, standard deviation, trend analysis, historical graphs and raw data. This wealth of information should be enough to please every technogeek in your office.

The business reports, including performance summaries, router
performance information and a list of the devices that fire the most alerts, are designed with the nontechnical user in mind and are much more concise than the technical summaries. I believe business users could use more graphs and trend analysis information, so I created a new report tailored for upper management and CIOs, targeting specific routers, switches and servers that directly affect end users and simulating a shopping-cart application. It worked like a charm--reports were issued as configured.