OmniPeek Basic

OmniPeek Basic

Portable Network Analyzer and OmniEngine Console

OmniPeek Basic is a full-featured, stand-alone network analysis tool. This product is ideal for consulting engineers who solve network problems for others, or for small businesses or remote offices where analysis is confined to a small number of interfaces, with no high-speed (10 Gigabit, Gigabit, or WAN) links and a limited number of employees on the network. OmniPeek Basic can collect network data from a single interface.

OmniPeek Product Comparison Chart

	OmniPeek Connect	OmniPeek Basic	OmniPeek Professional	OmniPeek Enterprise
User profile	Network manager or network engineer who needs to connect to remote engines but does not need local capture or analysis capabilities	Individual engineer focused on protocol development or analysis	Network manager or network engineer in a SME	Network manager or network engineer in a large company; Service technician for an ISP or other service provider
Remote Engine Connections	Unlimited	No	Limited to two simultaneous connections	Unlimited
Display Options
Packets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Log	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dashboard	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Application Performance Index	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Peer Map	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Graphs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Capture Options
Local Captures	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple Captures	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple Adapters	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Filters and Alarms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wireless	a,b,g,n	a,b,g,n	a,b,g,n	a,b,g,n
Voice Over IP	No	No	No	Yes
Video Over IP	No	No	No	Yes
Expert Flow Analysis (Conversational, Application and Diagnoses)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Web Traffic Analysis (Servers, Clients, Pages, Requests)	Yes	No	No	Yes
Statistical Analysis (Nodes, Protocols, Summary)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Local 10GbE, Gigabit and WAN Support	No	No	No	Yes
Local Matrix Switch Support	No	No	No	Yes
Local File Analysis	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Warranty	90 Days	90 Days	90 Days	90 Days
Maintenance and Enhanced Support	Product Updates Support by email and phone	Product Updates Support by email and phone	Product Updates Support by email and phone	Product Updates Support by email and phone

Features & Benefits

Real-time Application Performance Analysis

OmniPeek is able to aggregate these conversations by application and rate user satisfaction. Combining user satisfaction with WildPackets’ accurate response time analysis provides an unrivaled new level of application analysis. A new Apdex dashboard provides a high-level view of the quality of service that applications are delivering to end users. Apdex, an industry standard developed by the Apdex Alliance (www.apdex.org), provides a single metric that represents the level of satisfaction users are experiencing with applications. When the dashboard reports a low score, engineers can use the OmniPeek Product Family to drill down for Expert analysis, graphical reports, and the packets themselves to uncover the root cause of the problem.

The Application view allows you to link end-user satisfaction with the performance of a network application through Apdex.

Top-Down View

OmniPeek provides a high-level view of network traffic using its comprehensive Dashboard view. Dashboards display important data that every network engineer needs to know about the network without spending lots of time analyzing the captured data.

With OmniPeek, you can also drill down and see which nodes your top talkers are talking to. Click again and see what protocols and sub protocols are in use. IT staff of all levels of technical ability, or even executives can view this information instantly, anywhere on the network.

Wireless Analysis

OmniPeek provides in-depth analysis of Wireless Traffic using its comprehensive Wireless-specific expert diagnoses and decodes, high-level wireless-specific dashboard view, signal strength analysis, etc. In addition to 802.11a/b/g support, OmniPeek now support 802.11n capture and analysis.

The Network Policy Violation Detection allows the user to create, edit, save and reload named descriptions of a particular network-its participants and their expected behavior-for the Expert to use in detecting Network Policy violation events.

Visual Expert

Visual Expert includes a wealth of accessible tools to perform detailed analysis of conversation flows. These include the Packet Visualizer which shows the interactive requests and responses between the client and the server, payload reconstruction which can show the contents of the flow, a wide range of new conversation-oriented graphs including tcptrace. The visual expert also contains a "What If" view estimating the effects of changes in various network and application parameters on the network performance and a Compare view that assists in detecting communication issues within flows when viewed from different points on the network.

Real-Time Expert Analysis

OmniPeek displays Expert System diagnoses by conversation pair, so you can instantly identify where problems are occurring on the network. Other companies’ analyzers hide this information, listing their alarms by OSI layer.

The Expert EventFinder in OmniPeek provides descriptions and possible causes and remedies for each of the problem conditions the Expert identifies.

The Network Policy Violation Detection allows the user to create, edit, save and reload named descriptions of a particular network-its participants and their expected behavior-for the Expert to use in detecting Network Policy violation events.

Expert Mapping

The OmniPeek Expert Peer Map shows all communicating nodes within your network and is drawn as a vertically-oriented ellipse, able to grow to the size necessary. Reading the Peer Map is easy; the thicker the line between nodes, the greater the traffic; the bigger the dot, the more traffic through that node. The number of nodes displayed can also be limited to the busiest and/or active nodes, or to any OmniPeek filters that may be in use.

On-the-Fly Filters

You shouldn’t have to stop your analysis to change what you’re looking at it. OmniPeek enables you to create filters and apply them immediately. WildPackets’ “select related” feature selects the packets relevant to a particular node, protocol, conversation, or expert diagnosis, with a simple right click of the mouse. Features like this significantly reduce time needed to find and fix problems. Similar operations often take a dozen or more steps in other analyzers.

Global Real-Time Troubleshooting

Through the OmniPeek interface, OmniPeek extends real-time troubleshooting to network segments around the world, delivering expert network analysis, detailed node, protocol, and network summary statistics, and even packet decoding, on multiple segments, by multiple users, in real time. From one console, a network engineer can cost-effectively troubleshoot locally or connect to OmniEngine Expert analysis or other applications running on OmniEngines down the hall, across the country, or across the planet.

Network Coverage

With Ethernet and Wireless capabilities, you can now effectively monitor and troubleshoot services running on your entire network. Using the same solution for troubleshooting wired and wireless networks reduces the total cost of ownership, including training expenses.