OmniPeek Enterprise

OmniPeek Enterprise

Enterprise Network Analyzer and OmniEngine Console

OmniPeek Enterprise is WildPackets’ flagship product. It combines all of the features of the OmniPeek product line in one product, including support for local captures from multiple interfaces and connections to an unlimited number of distributed OmniEngines. It also supports data collection from any network topology, including 10 Gigabit and Gigabit networks, WAN links and local matrix switches. OmniPeek Enterprise is ideal for IT organizations responsible for network analysis and network service level agreements (SLAs) for the entire organization. A license of OmniPeek Enterprise should be considered for each location that will be supported by a network engineering professional. OmniPeek Enterprise also provides advanced voice and video over IP functionalities including signaling and media analyses of voice and video, VoIP playback, voice and video expert analysis, visual expert, and more.

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Features & Benefits

Advanced Voice and Video Over IP Analysis

OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, WAN, and Voice and Video over IP diagnostics in real-time. The Expert view provides in-depth analysis of latency, throughput, and numerous network problems in a conversation-centered display. Many of the test elements have user-defined settings and thresholds, allowing you to fine-tune the Expert System to suit your network environment. OmniPeek enterprise can analyze open calls without requiring any expensive voice and video processing hardware - providing unsurpassed capacity for post-deployment troubleshooting. In addition to Voice and Video decodes and analyses, OmniPeek enterprise also evaluates and displays the call setup mechanism, in real-time, for each open call. All active and closed calls in a capture are shown in an elegant summary screen. Single line per call provides easy, single-click drill down statistics for detailed troubleshooting.

It associates all the signaling (including RTCP status reports) and voice and video streams (RTP) on a per call basis and provides a flow of the signaling messages and endpoints that participate in the call. This includes measuring call setup durations and providing a Call Detail Record (CDR) for each call.

The Calls view displays all the calls in the order in which they were captured, with caller, callee, and end cause information. It provides comprehensive signaling analysis of SIP, Cisco Skinny, MEGACO, etc.

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Real-time Network and Media Analysis	Calls View

Forensics Analysis

Next-generation forensics analysis enables engineers to capture, store, and analyze historical network traffic, in order to conduct investigations for troubleshooting, security attack analysis, HR and policy compliance, application performance analysis, and business transaction analysis. OmniPeek forensics features an optimized data-discovery algorithm, along with utilities for reconstructing Email, IM, and Web traffic.

Intuitive Forensics Search allows you to easily and wisely set your search criteria in order to optimize your network bandwidth and performance.

OmniPeek also allows you to view network traffic in its intended form like PDF, HTML pages, Email, IM, etc. For instance, the web view displays packet flow reconstruction of web requests and responses, allowing you to perform forensic searches by drilling down to individual images, files, and pages. Web data is arranged by server, client, page, or request, providing you with a primary focus for your investigation of the original web content. The Timeline window displays the duration, packets, and phases of each HTTP request.

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Forensics Search	Web View	Web View Timeline

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 OmniPeek 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.

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Application View	Apdex Visual

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.

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Dashboard View

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 supports 802.11n capture and analysis.

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Wireless-specific Dashboard	Wireless Statistics View	Signal Strength View

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.

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Graphs	Payload	Compare
PacketVisualizer	Summary	What If

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.

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Expert	EventFinder	Network Policy

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.

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Expert Mapping

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.

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Real-Time Filtering

Global Real-Time Troubleshooting

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.

10 Gigabit, Gigabit and WAN Support

OmniPeek can analyze traffic from 10 Gigabit, Gigabit and WAN segments using WildPackets 10 Gigabit, Gigabit and WAN analyzer cards to deliver higher performance for mission critical troubleshooting on today’s high-speed wide area networks.