autoMap™

autoMap™ is unique in generating graphical topology drawings of any IT network, directly with Visio®. The popular Microsoft® Office software is frequently installed making it easy to use and deploy autoMap™.

autoMap™ gives quick return on the investment. A truly useful function for an organization is the ability to save topology drawings and extensive asset information to a web server. It enables users to view and share complex information on a web page and to easily transfer network diagrams and reports to multiple groups within or outside the organization.

Displaying networks in graphics also makes complex network topology information easy to present to others, facilitating decision making and analysis. By providing an accessible inventory of the network autoMap™ helps improve planning capabilities and keeping IT budgets on schedule. Printer consolidation is one example where autoMap™ excels.

Auditing and legal requirements are increasing and by providing automated inventory, autoMap™ in combination with autoAsset™ gives inventory data in graphics, helpful to auditors and administrators.

Integrating with Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Connector for the Microsoft® Baseline Security Analyzer enabling autoMap™ to perform security status analysis. Security management is further helped as autoMap™ is able to identify unmanaged sectors of a network.

The Multi-site autoMap™ scheduler automates discovery runs across multiple sites. For organizations with a global operations or service providers, daily, weekly or monthly set runs are timesaving and benefits the over all IT service assurance.

autoMap™ reduces costs, saves time and improves IT asset management.

autoMap™, part of Codima Toolbox, is easy-to-use, cost efficient and highly visual.

autoMap™ can be deployed as stand alone or with add on tools autoVoIP™, autoVoIP™ Consultancy Kit, autoAsset™ and autoAnalyzer™ Consultancy Kit.

     "The best we have seen in the market"
     Microsoft, UK

• Automatically generate Microsoft® Office Visio® network topology drawings and VoIP topology views
• Save network topology drawings to a Web server - view and share network topology and extensive asset information on a Web page
• Improve network planning capability and operational efficiency by viewing where devices, are connected, as well as Subnet and VLAN information
• Identify unmanaged sectors of the network
• Perform a Microsoft® Baseline Security Analysis (MBSA) of a Microsoft® infrastructure
• Automate discovery runs across multiple sites with Multi-site autoMap™ scheduler - users can set up scheduling operation from a central point for multiple sites, each with its own MySQL database

• Reduce maintenance costs and save time with automated processes
• Allow network managers to automatically discover and view the topology of their entire enterprise network
• Uses a well known and often installed application, Microsoft® Office Visio®
• Rationalize equipment, for example identify how many routers/switches have available ports

• Historical Change facility to highlight topology and asset changes between discovery runs
• Increase availability with easy to use agent free deployment for SNMP and WMI users
• Facility to automatically schedule discovery runs, e.g., daily, weekly, monthly or set days or a set time
• Comprehensive network discovery including routers, switches, wireless devices, VoIP phones, printers, servers, Microsoft Windows end-stations, etc.
• Extensive switch & router vendor support including Cisco, Nortel, Extreme Networks and more
• Ability to drill down in the embedded Microsoft® Office Visio®drawings
• Maximize asset information using new Visio 2007 Professional Data Link feature to connect external data sources such as Access Databases or Excel spreadsheets to autoMap’s network shapes
• Visio view focusing on SIP Devices (e.g., SIP Phones and SIP Servers) and Network Infrastructure Device (e.g., Switches, Routers, Wireless Access Points)

• Codima Discovery Engine™ uses the following protocols in the discovery process
• ICMP, SNMP, CDP, NetBIOS, and WMI
• Supports Multiple SNMP Read communities across the network
• Provides user control of discovery parameters:
• Allowed and Prohibited IP Address range can be configured
• Bandwidth limits can be set from 64Kbs to 640Kbs
• Provides for discovery across firewalls

• Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 or later
• Windows XP, Server 2003 or Windows Vista with 2GHz CPU (minimum)
• 1Gb RAM (minimum)
• Monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 (minimum)

• Adds Monitoring and Troubleshooting for VoIP networks with easy to use One-Click Management™

• Adds Monitoring, Displaying and Analyzing VoIP networks with Frame Flow analyzer and RTP analyzer and is available for laptop PC

• Adds Discovery and Reporting for any software or hardware in any Infrastructure

• Adds Analyzing and Troubleshooting for any Infrastructure in Real time with Remote Management