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NetMRI—Take control of change.

Our NetMRI solution fulfills your network configuration and change management (NCCM) and compliance requirements.

NetMRi 2.4 - Now Shipping

What's New in NetMRI 2.4?

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Business Intelligence Reports
NetMRI 2.4 now has a new reporting engine with a number of pre-packaged reports delivered with the product. Some of the reports include:

  1. Asset Inventory - a single page for all asset information by vendor, model, version number, etc. This report makes end of the quarter reporting for upgrades, moves and changes simple.
  2. Configuration Policy Summary - Summary of policy violations in a single report, during a given time frame, which helps identify where attention needs to be paid.
  3. Change Audit - Change is the #1 cause of problems.  Details all changes made to a group of devices during a given time period, and who is making the changes.
  4. PCI Compliance - Easily report on PCI compliancy on the network. For example, saving running configuration of network devices is a key PCI requirement. This report shows which configurations have been saved, and can pass PCI and which ones need attention.
  5. Network Health – Shows which sort of problems are persistent across the network, and how much of a negative impact they are having, based on the severity and frequency.
  6. ISO 27002 Report - A standard report for SOX, HIPAA and GLBA compliance during a given time period, which makes compliance audits easier to pass.

Discovery Improvements
Customers have been telling us that our discovery is the best in the industry, and we've just improved it. In NetMRI 2.4 discovery is at least 2x or faster. We are able to robustly handle device address and status changes, continue discovery past the license limits, support stub network discovery, and improve the performance, speed and scalability of the discovery engine.

Notification Improvements
In the event of a network issue, NetMRI now will alert you in real-time, and by email. You also have the ability to control the frequency of notifications, and receive detailed information about the issue including in the syslog and/or SNMP trap.

Configuration Change & Collection Improvement
Providing more concrete change control, NetMRI now enforces device configuration status locking. You can specify devices, individually or by security classification group, as being locked, meaning configuration changes are treated as ‘unauthorized’ and get immediate notification when changes do occur.

Other improvements in the configuration change and collection include:

  1. Detect changes in real-time – achieved through a combination of SNMP polling as well as analysis of syslog messages. The configuration collector will now collect configurations whenever a change to certain SNMP-polled data is detected, OR whenever NetMRI (or a paired NetMRI Event Collector) receives a Syslog message indicating the device was configured.
  2. NetMRI can now determine and display the user responsible for the changes made to the configuration.
  3. Ability to view, analyze and compare multiple revisions of running configurations as well as startup configurations. (Previous to release 2.4, only startup configurations were archived)

Data Collection
NetMRI can now use CLI as an alternate method to collect data from large tables on network devices. As an example, NetMRI now uses CLI when collecting data for large ARP tables, providing improved performance and reduced CPU utilization on the devices where data is being collected

New Device Support
A number of additional network devices have been certified and are now fully supported by NetMRI, from vendors such as Alcatel, Allied Telesys, Cisco, Exterasys, Force 10, and Nortel.