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For existing and new networks, NetBrain's Discovery Appliance lets you see the whole picture – from network elements to network design.  Thanks to a state-of-the-art documentation engine, Visio diagrams and Word documents that depict your network are just a few clicks away.


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NetBrain Discovery and Inventory Appliance

The NetBrain Discovery and Inventory Appliance (DAP) is a Network Discovery and Network Inventory Maintenance solution. It is designed for large enterprises and network outsourcing service providers, where accurate and comprehensive knowledge about networks is essential and the cost of error prohibitive. Examples of Discovery Appliance use include:

  • Network outsourcers that have an automated mechanism to keep network inventory updated and need to discover and document client networks during initial engagements
  • Large enterprises which have thousands of network devices under management that need to ensure every network device is properly managed while the network is under constant change

The NetBrain Discovery Appliance shares the same network discovery algorithm as NetBrain Workstation but with a more advanced discovery engine. In a large network, the Discovery Appliance can discover up to 2,000 network devices per hour.  For network re-discovery, it can run as fast as 10,000 devices per hour. The Discovery Appliance also offers customizable support for multi-vendor products.

Compared to other network discovery solutions in the market place, the NetBrain Discovery Appliance stands out in speed and more importantly accuracy and depth.  NetBrain Discovery Appliance reaches up to 99% accuracy.  It also has capabilities to discover both layer 3 (L3) and layer 2 (L2) network topology, and discovers network design such as routing, VLAN and multicasting.

The NetBrain Discovery Appliance can completely free large organizations from needing to keep manual inventory of their network, where adding, removing and modifying network devices is common.  Finally, with NetBrain Discovery Appliance, there is an automated network documentation solution that can bring network discovery to a new level.

Feature Description
Network Discovery
Network discovery via configuration files After importing devices, NetBrain will use these devices as seed routers to discover the whole network
Network device auto-discovery Discover network devices from IP addresses or IP ranges. The built in 2nd generation network discovery engine has human-style intelligence, and excels in:
>Depth:Discover not only L2/L3 network topology, but also network design such as routing and VLAN
>High Speed: Discover up to 4000 network devices per hour
Discovery behind proxy or jump-box For networks that can be accessed directly, proxy devices or jump-boxes can be defined.
Multi-vendor support for discovery Built in support for multiple vendors and models allows users to dynamically add support for any vendors/models not currently in the supported list.
Periodical network re-discovery The network discovery task can be scheduled to allow re-discovery of network devices periodically.
Share discovery results across an enterprise Network discovered results, such as device configurations, can be exported to NetBrain Workstations across an enterprise so up-to-date network data is always available.
Customizable discovery script Written script is dynamically loaded and fully customizable to best retrieve data for different vendors or models.
Network Assessment
Detail inventory report From detail log and network discovery reports,the user can correct settings or change configurations.

Minimum System Requirements

  • Computer processor: 2GHZ, Dual Core
  • Memory: 2GB
  • Hard disk: Depends on your network size, but at least 1 GB free space
  • Operating system: Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2

Recommended System Requirements

  • Computer processor: 2GHZ, Dual Core
  • Memory: 4GB
  • Hard disk: 100 GB if the size of your network is large
  • Operating system: Windows  Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2
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