autoMap™

autoMap™ creates topology drawings directly with Visio®, visualizing any IT network. With Visio® being part of Microsoft® Office, the software is often already installed by end users, hence integrating autoMap™ is simple.

Visualizing IT assets is key to successful network support and design.

An agent less solution, autoMap™ utilizes information already available from devices and processes on the network. The discovery run by Codima Discovery Engine™ identifies and reports on managed and unmanaged devices installed.

Easy to use, configure and deploy, the network inventory tool quickly reduces installation, training and administration costs.

Budgeting, decision-making and analysis are other areas where autoMap™ is effective. Complex information can be shared and presented to others facilitating business processes as topology drawings and extensive information can be viewed on web pages.

The Historical Change Facility provides an automated inventory that highlights changes that have occurred on the network between discovery runs, a helpful feature to control IT assets.

Identifying unmanaged IT assets enhances security management and autoMap™ also integrates with Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Connector for the Microsoft® Baseline Security Analyzer.

Auditors and administrators facing today’s increasing legal requirements and need for network compliance can rely on autoMap™ for assistance. Leveraging automated network inventory, autoMap™ provides IT asset information that is easy to access and understand.

By adding Multi Site Scheduler, a network manager can set up scheduling operation from a central point and automate discovery runs across multiple sites. Organizations can stay up to date, identifying assets and producing network topology drawings automatically on a regular basis for multiple networks in different locations.

Flexible and scalable, the multi-vendor network inventory solution is applicable to small, medium and large organizations, as well as service providers and system integrators.

autoMap™ can be deployed as stand alone or with other tools from Codima Toolbox.

• Automatically generate Microsoft® Office Visio® network topology drawings
• Save network topology drawings and asset reports as HTML pages on a Web Server - view and share network topology and asset information
• Improve network planning capacity and operational efficiency by seeing how devices are connected - view link information as well as Spanning Tree, Subnet and VLAN topologies
• Identify managed and unmanaged devices
• Identify and report on both Windows and Linux platforms
• Automatically identify SIP Phones, Servers and Gateways
• Single system deployment to gather information from existing agents on the network
• Perform a Microsoft® Baseline Security Analysis (MBSA) on the Microsoft® infrastructure - one click integration with MBSA
• Automate discovery runs across multiple sites by adding the Multi Site Scheduler

• Reduce maintenance costs and save time with automated processes
• Allow network managers to automatically discover and view the topology of their entire enterprise network
• Use a well known and often installed application, Microsoft® Office Visio®
• Rationalize equipment - for example identify how many routers/switches have free ports
• Rationalize software requirements - for example identify how many commercial software packages and which versions are installed on devices in the network
• Maximize asset information using new Visio® 2007 Professional Data Link feature to to import data from an external source e.g. Excel workbook or SQL database into the drawings created using autoMap™

• Historical Change facility to highlight topology and asset changes between discovery runs
• Discovery scheduler to automatically run discoveries, e.g., daily, weekly, monthly or at a set time
• Comprehensive network discovery and reporting - supports over 4,600 device types, over 8,000 NIC vendors and 30,000 vendor codes - the list is constantly updated
• Extensive switch and router vendor support - Cisco, Nortel, Extreme Networks and more
• Drill Down Visio drawings enable users to focus on sectors of the network

• Codima Discovery Engine™ uses several protocols in the discovery process including:
• SNMP, SIP, NetBIOS, ICMP and rDNS, as well as proprietary vendor protocols such as WMI, CDP or EDP. Use of common and universal protocols makes the discovery agent-less.
• 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
• Discovery can be limited to a range of IP addresses or set to discover as many IP addresses as possible
• Provides for discovery across firewalls

• Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 or 2007
• Microsoft® Windows Vista, XP or Server 2003 with 2GHz CPU (minimum)
• 1Gb RAM (minimum)
• Monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 (minimum)

• Adds Automated Discovery Runs across multiple sites

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

• Adds a Network Pinger automatically notifying when key network devices stop working in any type of IT network

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

• 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