OmniPeek Professional

OmniPeek Professional

Serving a dual role as both a portable network analysis solution and as a software console for OmniEngines, OmniPeek Professional offers an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical interface that engineers can use to rapidly analyze and troubleshoot enterprise networks. OmniPeek Professional provides centralized expert analysis for all networks under management. Using OmniPeek’s intuitive user interface and “top-down” approach to visualizing network conditions, network engineers can quickly analyze faults from multiple network segments, drill down through multiple layers of analysis, and pinpoint problems that need correction.

Using OmniPeek Professional, network engineers can:

• Analyze local traffic from any 10/100 or wireless network segment, including 802.11n segments, as well as two simultaneous connections to network segments configured with OmniEngine
• Analyze and troubleshoot networks from all perspectives – packets, nodes, protocols, conversations and applications, using one single product
• Monitor networks with high-level network views, or “Dashboards,” and instantly drill down to see which traffic characteristics are affecting network performance
• Capture and analyze data from multiple local network adapters, multiple distributed OmniEngines, or any combination of local and remote data
• Leverage your existing wireless network infrastructure by turning managed access points from Cisco or Aruba, and IDS/IPS wireless sensors from AirTight Networks, into packet capture devices and collect data from multiple channels simultaneously
• Add reports of wireless interference sources into OmniPeek Professional’s Summary Statistics, and set triggers on reported interference to troubleshoot interference problems as they occur
• Rely on real-time Expert analysis to do the heavy-lifting, performing aggregated analysis of all network traffic and reporting Expert events as they occur
• Receive alerts when specific Expert events occur, or when configured Network Policies are violated
• Change filters on the fly without having to stop and restart packet captures
• View packet-stream based analytics by conversation pair, instantly locating network events

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	Gigabit	Gigabit	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. 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.

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 supports 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

The Visual Expert answers the question “Who’s talking to who?” by providing comprehensive visual data about network and application traffic, along with Expert diagnoses of common and not-so-common network problems. The Visual Expert makes it easier to understand what’s happening on the network and how to remedy problems by providing a “top-down” view of network activity.

Visual Expert includes Packet Visualizer, payload reconstruction, a wide range of conversation-oriented graphs, optimization tuning by playing “What If” with key network parameters, packet by packet comparison between multiple saved capture files – very useful in comparing the traffic from the wireless and wired side of an access point, and a detailed summary panel.

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

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 as well as connections to OmniEngines, 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.