The more your network changes, the more you need to improve network vision and control.
Today’s networks are typically very stable. The problem is they aren’t static. Management and users are constantly demanding new technologies, new services, and better performance, which inevitably require changing infrastructure, deploying new applications, and dealing with security. And in the process you need to control IT costs and minimize disruption to your organization. That means you need to be able to clearly see all aspects of your network to accurately assess the impact of adding new technologies and services and to make sure it is delivering maximum performance with what you already have.

It’s not easy.

But the powerful new Fluke Networks OptiView Network Analyzer gives you a clear view of your entire enterprise - providing visibility into every piece of hardware, every application, and every connection on your network.  No other tool offers this much vision and all-in-one capability to help you:

• Deploy new technologies and applications.
• Manage and validate infrastructure changes.
• Solve network and application performance issues.
• Secure network from internal threats.

It shows you where your network stands today and helps you accurately assess its readiness for the changes you need to make.

Portable and Rack Models
OptiView Series III Network Analyzers are available in two form factors to give you a clear view of your entire enterprise – providing visibility into every piece of hardware, every application, and every connection on your network.
Choose the Integrated Network Analyzer for portable, all-in-one analysis or the Workgroup Analyzer for permanent or semi-permanent deployment in the core or at remote sites. Or, use them together to create a powerful combination – a troubleshooting tool for the access layer and an analyzer watching the core, remote site or critical network point.

Support IT initiatives

Assess, verify and prove network readiness for new applications, new technologies and infrastructure deployment
Conduct network discovery, traffic analysis, infrastructure device analysis and documentation. Deploy, secure and troubleshoot wireless LANs.

Validate new configurations and end-user performance
Identify VLAN configurations; validate network health, audit switch/router configurations and performance. Response time analysis of key business applications from source to end-user perspective.

Secure the network from the inside
Maintain network integrity by discovering unauthorized devices and misuse of network equipment. Perform routine audits to identify regulatory compliance violations (HIPPA, SOX) and detect downloading or sharing of restricted documents and confidential information through advanced packet capture and filtering on specific words or text strings. Verify 802.1x configurations, SNMP community strings and MAC level port security.

Improve utilization of existing network equipment
Eliminate unwanted applications through deeper traffic analysis, differentiating between specific audio, video, image or data applications.

Reduce MTTR and minimize network outages and degradations
Resolve network performance issues in real-time using vendor independent infrastructure analysis, sophisticated packet capture, decode with Expert analysis and free string match.

Improve IT staff efficiency
Allow IT staff to efficiently locate any device within the enterprise network, and understand a user’s or application’s bandwidth utilization in real time.

Traffic analysis

Traffic analysis at the touch of a button
The OptiView Series III provides real-time statistics for traffic on the wire which enables the user to understand how network resources are being used and increase user satisfaction with faster response times for networked applications.

Quickly and easily identify top talkers, multicasters and broadcasters or select top conversations to determine which hosts may be over utilizing resource bandwidth.  Determine who is using server bandwidth by viewing top conversations to a single host.
Analyze protocol mix to identify top protocols being used and also discover unwanted and custom protocols and see which protocols are being used by each host.

Application traffic analysis
Automatically discover all protocols and sub protocols from the MAC layer to the application layer. This enables IT staff to identify applications utilizing link bandwidth including those that use dynamically assigned port numbers to see and validate the impact of applications on bandwidth usage and also identify to use of illicit applications.

Perform application analysis in real-time on Gigabit links and determine the specific endpoints (server, host) using that application. Plus, perform a layer 3 or layer 2 trace route to identify the switch or router interface to which the endpoint is connected for each application.  Differentiate between specific audio, video, image, and data applications, and show the level of bandwidth usage of each, including:

• HTTP traffic to: database, application, audio, image, text, video, x-world (VRML)
• HTTP applications to 58 applications: such as Lotus® Notes, Microsoft® Word, RealAudio®, Adobe®, Liquid Audio, etc.
• RealNetworks® RDT into audio, video, data
• RTSP into embedded media and session control
• VoIP
  • RTP video and audio and sub-classification on whether set-up through H.323, SIP, RTSP, Skinny
  • VoIP call signaling and call control for H.323, SIP, and Cisco Skinny
  • H.323 VoIP and videoconferencing
• SAP R/3 classified into service manager, app server, and gateway
  • Oracle®
  • Connection manager
  • Connection Manager Gateway
  • Oracle VP
• Oracle TNS
  • MS ODBC
  • MS OLE
  • Oracle SQL Plus
  • Oracle Forms
  • PeopleSoft
• Instant Messenger (AOL and MSN)
• KaZaA® Downloads

Advanced discovery

Advanced discovery techniques finds devices, networks and problems in seconds.

As soon as the analyzer is connected to the network, it automatically begins to discover devices on the network, with no interaction required, by monitoring traffic and actively querying hosts. IT staff can immediately see what is on the network and where it is connected, by switch, slot and port number. They can investigate and quickly locate “suspect” devices and with minimum effort identify problems associated with device mis-configurations.

The analyzer categorizes devices into interconnect (routers, switches, SNMP hubs and access points), servers, printers, SNMP agents and other hosts.  Additionally, networks are classified by IP Subnets, VLANs, NetBIOS Domains and IPX Networks, together with host membership within each classification.  Network devices that may be experiencing problems are also discovered. Examples of problems detected are: duplicate IP addresses, incorrect subnet masks, default router not responding and many more.

The analyzer's active discovery capability has now been extended to Cisco VoIP devices such as IP phones and call managers. Device capabilities and configurations may be viewed, allowing the user to easily identify and correct configuration issues during VoIP deployment.

The IT staff user can add a device to Key Devices and the analyzer will automatically test connectivity from the attached segment to that device by performing an IP or IPX ping. A key device that fails to respond, will show up in the Problem Discovery as “Key Device not responding,” providing you with at-a-glance monitoring of critical network devices.  The analyzer can also be configured to perform a discovery on an off-broadcast domain subnet to provide visibility of devices at remote sites.

Generate up-to-date HTML format inventory reports of devices both on the attached network and also on networks at remote sites.

Device analysis

Vendor independent infrastructure device analysis
Get visibility into switches and routers located anywhere on the enterprise network. With this information, you can optimize network performance, improve efficiency and reduce costs while improving reliability and security.

Additionally, easily manage and validate infrastructure configurations when deploying SNMPv3 with the analyzers new capability of supporting configurable credential sets including authentication with and without privacy.

Multi-port switch statistics
In-depth analysis, including:

Detect over-utilization, excessive errors, and locate inactive switch ports to determine if performance problems are related to link speed or duplex mis-configurations, or are related to the number of hosts on a port.

VLAN analysis
Determine if connectivity problems are related to VLAN configuration by seeing information such as:

Telnet and web browser links to allow reconfiguration of devices directly from the analyzer. Detailed HTML reports show switch configuration on a per port basis.

Trace SwitchRoute

VLAN Trunk Analysis

802.1X support

Packet capture and decode

The capture process may be started or stopped through a user defined trigger event - capture the traffic before, after or around an event occurrence without being present. This ensures you capture the event the first time and avoids initiating random traffic captures that may not contain anything of interest.

With the captured traffic, launch the OptiView Integrated Protocol Expert to examine packet level decodes and detail in combination with a graphical representation of individual conversation threads.  Captured data will automatically be sorted into conversations and displayed by the timeline as an Application Bounce Chart to make application performance and troubleshooting easier to visualize and resolve.

Free string match

Free String Match to find and capture anything

Free String Match to find and capture anything
Match any set of words or phrases when detected (regardless of the position in the packet – payload or header) in real-time to trigger the analyzer to start or stop capturing and/or filter traffic. Use free string match to capture traffic around any application error message, detect traffic containing certain words or phrases in non-encrypted emails, web pages, file transfers or documents to identify illicit use of the network or detect downloading of restricted documents based on content or filenames (.doc, .xls, .pdf).
 

Traffic generation

Assess network readiness for new deployments by determining the impact of the new application, or the addition of network users, by stressing your network with simulated traffic – up to 1 Gbps.
 

Protocol type, frame size, frame rate, percentage utilization and number of frames to transmit are user configurable, along with the type of traffic: Broadcast, Multicast or Unicast.

Selectable protocols include: Benign Ethernet, Benign LLC 802.2, NetBEUI, Benign IP, IP ICMP Echo, IP UDP Echo, IP UDP Discard, IP UDP NFS and IP UDP NetBIOS. Selecting an IP protocol allows you to select Time to Live (TTL) parameters and TOS(QOS) parameters such as Minimum Delay, Maximum Throughput, Maximum Reliability, Minimum Monetary Cost and Maximum Security to ensure correct routing configurations.

Throughput testing

With the Throughput Test, measure bidirectional data flow between two Fluke Networks’ devices to validate LAN and WAN throughput capabilities. The throughput test requires a second device to communicate with on your network. That second device can either be an OptiView Integrated or Workgroup Analyzer, or an EtherScope or OneTouch Network Assistant.

Test results can be viewed in a tabular or graphical format.  The Rate format tabular view indicates the local and remote transmit and receive rates together with the total percentage of frames received by both devices.  Switching to tabular Frame Format view shows the number of local and remote frames transmitted and received, together with the total percentage of frames received by both devices.

Web remote analysis

Remote user interface
Simply point a web browser at the IP address of a correctly configured OptiView Series III Integrated Network Analyzer to retrieve saved reports and capture files. You can also install a Remote User Interface (UI) and use your PC to obtain remote access to an analyzer over a TCP/IP connection. Once the Remote UI is installed, simply give the interface the IP address of the analyzer to monitor and see an almost identical interface to the analyzer’s local interface. Communications between the analyzer and Remote UI can also be encrypted. A single analyzer will support seven remote sessions for collaborative troubleshooting or opening of multiple sessions on a PC to provide a remote dashboard view. User accounts

Reporting and documenting

Wireless analysis

Fluke Networks gives you the visibility you need to manage both your 802.11 a/b /g wireless and 10/100/1000 Ethernet copper and fiber wired networks. By extending the award-winning OptiView Integrated Network Analyzer with Wi-Fi detection, verification and troubleshooting, Fluke Networks again ensures that OptiView is the network visibility tool of choice.

With the OptiView wireless option, get total visibility into your network. It’s a solution that brings value to key wireless network tasks such as:

In addition, load Fluke Networks’ powerful wireless stand-alone software on the analyzer such as InterpretAir™ WLAN Survey Software for site survey analysis to quickly optimize coverage and performance, or AnalyzeAir™ Wi-Fi Spectrum Analyzer to detect, identify and locate RF emitting devices that interfere with 802.11 and cause intermittent performance problems.

VoIP analysis

Voice over IP Option
Voice over IP is one of the most mission critical applications being deployed by IT organizations today. The rollout of VoIP services is accompanied by the expectation of toll availability and sound quality. It is therefore imperative IT organizations have the proper tools to monitor VoIP call QoS during and after implementation.

"Quality Grading" thresholds can be set for key VoIP QoS parameters, such as R-Factor, Jitter, Packet Drop and Call Setup Time. The number of calls that fall within each Quality Grade is shown for key QoS parameters. Detailed VoIP call information for every call is clearly shown in a tabular view to allow quick identification of the route taken and the gateway involved, allowing you to troubleshoot quickly. As networks evolve and traffic patterns change with new applications and users, VoIP QoS can often degrade in imperceptible steps, or extreme failure. An initial VoIP deployment might run fine initially, but incremental changes to the network can slowly erode VoIP performance or completely eliminate availability. OptiView ensures visibility of VoIP performance and allows quick resolution of issues due to network growth and development.

The VoIP option provides detailed decodes of the most commonly used VoIP protocols including H.323, Cisco Skinny (SCCP), MGCP and SIP. Detailed information supports quick isolation of call setup problems. Combined with the easy-to-use single call filter and Call and Channel Table Views, call setup failures commonly caused by configuration errors, network equipment incompatibilities, or interoperability can be easily solved.

The Voice over IP Option helps you ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for this mission-critical application. And by measuring call quality at different locations on the network, IT staff can isolate network segments that need reconfiguration or upgrading.

OptiView Application Troubleshooting Expert Option

The OptiView Application Troubleshooting Expert speeds up troubleshooting application and network performance issues by automatically validating that network services such as DHCP, DNS and 802.1X are available and operating correctly, ensuring that server and application connectivity is accessible by opening specific TCP ports on servers and reporting the round trip time as a combination of network latency and server connection set up time. A combination of layer 2 and layer 3 trace routes identifies the entire network path between the application client and the application server.

When analyzing captured packets collected by the OptiView analyzer, the Application Troubleshooting Expert provides detailed application flow analysis for various protocols such as DNS, DHCP,HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP and SMB and presents information such as:

• an overview of the protocols on the trace
• aggregate throughput for individual applications over time
• a list of servers and clients by protocol
• detailed transactions for each application layer protocol including a list of individual commands
• application turns
• throughput for each application transaction including payload vs. header data
• server response time from client request to first data sent by server
• connection setup time
• any issues detected during the application session

For network related performance problems, the expert will categorize the problems detected by OSI layers. It summarizes the address or name of the stations involved, and the position of frames in the capture file that trigger the Expert System to identify the problem. The Expert System will identify symptoms such as Excessive ARP, Excessive BOOTP, NFS Retransmission, TCP/IP checksum error, TCP/IP Fast Retransmission, TCP/IP Retransmission, TCP/IP Frozen Window, TCP/IP Long Ack and TCP/IP SYN Attack and many others. Double clicking on the Expert Symptom button displays the Expert Diagnosis window that provides a description of the station symptom, a probable cause and recommended action(s).

Fiber inspection

The OptiView Fiber Inspector Option, a portable video microscope that connects to a USB port on an OptiView Series III Integrated Network Analyzer, gives you superior vision by enabling you to inspect all types of installed fiber terminations in hardware devices and patch panels. It saves you time by eliminating the need to access the rear of patch panels or disassemble hardware devices prior to inspection. Instead of removing each individual fiber, you need only insert the video probe to inspect the fiber while it’s still in place.

The OptiView Fiber Inspector:

• Easily inspects fiber connectors already installed on patch panels.
• Quickly determines whether fiber connectors on a hardware device are clean and in good condition – without disassembling the device!
• Eliminates the hazards of inspecting live fiber.
• Is compatible with standard ST, SC, and FC connectors, and other connector types including small form factor connectors with optional adapter tips.
• Leverages the investment already made in the OptiView Series III Integrated Network Analyzer by eliminating the need for a separate display.

OptiView Reporter

Centralized documenting, network diagramming and reporting. OptiView Reporter works with your OptiView Integrated Network Analyzers and Workgroup Analyzers to provide documenting and trending capabilities from one central location.

OptiView Reporter’s seamless integration with Microsoft® Office Visio® diagramming program allows you to create maps showing the links between your servers, switches routers, and hosts.

With OptiView Reporter you’ll get:

• Distributed LAN visibility using OptiView Integrated and Workgroup analyzers
• Automated documentation, diagramming, problem identification and notification
• Long term interface trending
• Scheduled, web-accessible reports and network maps

Vision Suites

The Vision Suites turn the OptiView Network Analyzers into a complete solution of visionary network management products that work with an OptiView Network Analyzer to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot, giving you control of every situation that pops up. You get enterprise-wide vision with the power to drill down seven layers deep.

With a single click, you can generate network connection diagrams with our unique link to Visio® software. And if a key device, router, or switch port is overloaded, you’ll know about it in a heartbeat.