Features

Automatic Customer and Purpose Port Tracking

Observer will recognise the usage of ports as customer ports, transit, etc for display purposes using a standard interface description format:

Cust: Example Customer (T1 TelcoY CCID129031)
Transit: Example Provider (AS65000)
Core: Example Device 1 -> Example Device 2 (Telco X CCID023141)

Other Features

• BGP Session discovery and graphing
• Cisco Inventory discovery and tracking
• Cisco VTP VLAN discovery and tracking
• Firewall session tracking for Juniper SSG and Fortinet Fortigate firewalls
• Connected-device discovery via CDP.
• Aware of subnets to show machines on the same broadcast domain.
• Graph interface traffic, packets and errors.
• Understands a simple interface naming scheme.
• Graph cpu usage, load, memory usage, uptime, users, processes for Net-SNMP servers.
• Aware of m0n0wall and pfSense SNMP limitations.
• Graph mail statistics collected on remote hosts using mail-graph and courier-graph.
• Collect data from Apache hosts using /server-status/.
• Can detect Linux, Dragon Fly/Free/Net/OpenBSD, Windows and Cisco OS types.
• Parses Cisco version strings and other OIDs to get hardware type, os version and os featureset.
• Heavy use of overlib rollover images to ease use.
• Generates primative network diagrams using graphviz.