Similar to Storage Management, our Network Management solutions fill the gap where others leave off. There may be multiple vendors, different element management tools, carriers, a multitude of varying technologies and High Level Management software solutions which try to marry it all together.  All this investment, and it still takes hours to troubleshoot the problems when things go wrong.  NS Consult attempts to resolve the issue with two great solutions, Magellan and E-NetAware.

Magellan allows IT staff to visualize and monitor an application's "data path" - the logical cross-domain data flows across multiple devices that support a given application or IT service. This application-focused perspective enables IT staff to map any application to the specific infrastructure devices and services that support it and, conversely, map any infrastructure device to the applications it supports. Cross-Domain Management of your Data Center Network Infrastructure encompasses all critical components of Data Center Networks, including mainframe, server, host bus adapter, storage, SAN, DWDM, SONET, and channel extension devices. Magellan unique multi-domain orientation masks infrastructure complexity by providing an intuitive view of how disparate devices are connected together across domains in support of IT services. Intelligent, rules-based Event Correlation quickly identifies the most probable cause of faults in the network infrastructure, reducing time and manpower needed to diagnose and resolve problems. Since the infrastructure is aligned with business applications, Magellan improves application availability and performance by revealing the interdependencies of business applications and their underlying infrastructure.

E-NetAware tracks and regulates changes across multi-vendor routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points (WAPs), load balancers and other network devices. E-NetAware provides insight into and automates network changes, enabling fast recovery, maximizing user efficiency and allowing IT staff to identify and correct problematic trends. E-NetAware provides solutions to your top IT change management challenges while lowering IT costs by saving time and eliminating errors.  Reduction in downtime caused by configuration changes is a primary goal.  Not only is it difficult to correlate outages to changes, once a configuration error is made, but it is also difficult to restore the device to the last known trusted configuration. Compliance and Auditing is provided to satisfy Government regulations requiring audit trails verifying IT practices. It is difficult to verify that changes have been implemented in accordance with best practices. Network Configuration Control features provide an up-to-date repository of all configuration files across all vendors for change management, monitoring, reporting, auditing and disaster recovery.  E-NetAware Monitors and Reports Change Discrepancies which are difficult to determine quickly. "What changed?" when responding to network problems or intrusions.

Comprehensive Change Reports: Compiling change reports for multiple audiences (e.g., CM team, external auditors, IT manager, security manager, network engineers) is time consuming.