ACA ADDS INVENTORY CONTROL TO LAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.Advanced Computer Applications (ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture ), Inc., of Newtown, PA, has added an extensive set of inventory control features to its scaleable, enterprise-wide LM/425 LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Management system. The new feature set, called "Secur-Trak(tm)," alerts network administrators whenever a network device appears to have been moved from one LAN segment A section of a local area network that is used by a particular workgroup or department and separated from the rest of the LAN by a bridge, router or switch. Networks are divided into multiple segments for security and to improve traffic flow by filtering out packets that are not destined to another. Secur-Trak ships with the current release of LM/425 hardware and software and is being provided as a software upgrade to existing LM/425 customers. Secur-Trak is based on the ability of ACA's real-time probes to provide continuous network discovery while performing other network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and management tasks. Probes notify consoles whenever a new device, identified by its fixed hardware address, appears on a network segment. Consoles then search their database records to determine whether the device is indeed new or whether it has been previously discovered by another probe on another network segment. Secur-Trak routines regard a rediscovery Noun 1. rediscovery - the act of discovering again discovery, find, uncovering - the act of discovering something rediscovery n → redescubrimiento as a potential security violation. After setting and logging an alarm, consoles display verbal and graphical descriptions of the device's old and new location. Network administrators can then evaluate the rediscovery. In many cases rediscovery is a result of coordinated network maintenance and configuration, such as an authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: swapping of a network interface card or a deliberate conversion of a routed segment to a bridged segment. If a rediscovery merits further investigations, administrators are armed with information that enables them to take appropriate action. For more information, call (215)860-0700. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion