Open Access Systems Corporation

What's New in NetMRI 3.0?

NetMRI 3.0 takes automating network configuration, change and compliance management to the next level. By leveraging the subject matter expertise and built-in analysis within NetMRI, users can understand the impact of change on network health, ensure standardization and compliance is deployed successfully and do more with less by improving staff productivity.

Release 3.0 focuses on improving time to value for our customers by adding more pre-built expertise and policies, improving the user experience, and understanding the impact of change on network health and consistency with a rich, graphical interface.

A few highlights of 3.0 include:

Impact Analysis of Change Over Time
Quickly correlate the impact of change with issues, compliance and network health over time with a single graphical dashboard to pinpoint hard to find problems faster and identify trends over time. Multiple NetMRI dashboards help focus users toward the nature of change and its impact on health over time.

Network Explorer
The network explorer views enable multiple users within a single organization to take full advantage of NetMRI by providing the detailed view of NetMRI’'s rich, auto-discovered attribute model. Information needed by different groups ranging from engineers, network managers/architects, executives and other members of the IT staff can be easily accessed with packaged views and custom slicing and dicing of the data.

Extensive Topology Visualization
With complex networks, the new topology visualization capability graphically represents the multi-dimensional relationships within your network, with the ability to overlay status indicators such as change, issues and policy violations to quickly see how a change on one device is impacting network health of network neighbors.

Role-based Access by Device Group
Since different staff within an organization have different needs and expertise, the new role-based access with NetMRI 3.0 provides the ability to assign different levels of access to different people. This feature will reduce the risk of degradation and downtime by eliminating the need to give admin rights to all staff.

Multi-Level Job Management
Safely operationalize change management to more users by providing controlled access to various change functions depending on user role, schedule jobs during maintenance windows, and enforce peer review while allowing users to propose more complicated changes for approval prior to execution.

Built-in Subject Matter Expertise and Device Support
NetMRI has a long history of built-in analysis and subject matter expertise out of the box and 3.0 greatly increases the number of pre-defined rules and supported devices to improve time to value for users.

Policy Design Center
For standardization and compliance requirements, the Policy Design Center leverages pre-built rules and policies with a new policy wizard to build custom standards more easily across the entire network, all leveraging NetMRI’s new and more powerful policy analysis engine. Users can extend the pre-packaged rules, or capture completely custom requirements that apply conditional analysis logic to meet the realities of diverse environments, without the need for complex scripting.

SNMPv3 and IPv6 Support
NetMRI adds support for technologies using SNMPv3 and IPv6 standards.