Introduction
SwitchCop
V1.0 is a Ethernet switch monitoring software. It is based
on SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) accepted across
industry for management of computer networks. It can be used
to monitor Managed Ethernet switches (i.e. switch supporting
SNMP).
Features
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SwitchCop shows
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- General Information about switch: Information like
switch name, its up time, mac address, port count,
contact person name etc.
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Basic Bridging Information: It
includes generic info about every port that is associated
with this switch, and filtering information configured
into the switch by (local or network) management
specifying the set of ports to which frames received
from specific ports and containing specific destination
addresses are allowed to be forwarded.
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Spanning Tree Protocol Information: If your switch
supports Spanning Tree Protocol than you can view
information like protocol specification, time since
topology change, path cost etc.
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Transparent Bridging Information: If the bridging
is of transparent type than information about every
port that is associated with this transparent bridge
(MaxInfo, InFrames, OutFrames, and InDiscards) can
be seen.
- VLANs Information: In case VLANs is configured on
your network VLANs Information show you VLANs Version,
Active VLANs, VLANs Index, Name, Ports associated
with the VLANs etc.
- Port Information: It includes port index, its type,
sub type, and address.
- Interface's details: Details about the interface
of the switch like their description, speed and status.
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Facilitates reporting
(i.e. printing of important information is supported). |
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SwitchCop enables
you to take backup of important information in two formats,
text format and MS Excel sheet format. |
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SwitchCop display
different Interface traffic graphs for: |
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- Incoming octets vs outgoing octets.
- Inbound packets that contained errors Vs Outbound
packets that could not be transmitted because of errors,
on the specified Interfac
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Usage :
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Manage and Monitor Ethernet switch. |
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Report
generation of important information for Audit/Inventory
purpose. |
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