Codima autoVoIP
Introduction
Codima's autoVoIP™ application combines into one economic and sensationally easy-to-use package the different functions necessary to carry out both pre-deployment testing and ongoing management tasks for VoIP networks. In particular, its ease-of-use and dashboard-style overview makes it ideal for help-desk and network operations centres.
autoVoIP automatically gathers information about quality of service parameters, including delay, lost packets and jitter, the state of the network, its topology and potential problems on the communication path. It correlates and filters this information and presents it through an easily understandable grid-style overview. At a glance, the user can identify problem phones or errors, and is just a click away from pre-filtered detailed reports on the phone or problem area as well as service assurance reports.
Express Distributed Probe Solution
The autoAnalyzer and autoVoIP are software probes that runs on a PC with a network interface card to locally manage, monitor and diagnose an Ethernet, Fast Ethernet or Gigabit network segment. They communicate and report via a highly-efficient proprietary protocol to the Express Console Manager.
The autoAnalyzer and autoVoIP systems provide on-the-spot troubleshooting and is a diagnostic tool for the travelling network technician. They can be left at a remote site and managed remotely by the Express Console Manager.
autoVoIP Highlights:
- Ease of deployment, starts monitoring immediately. Minimal to zero configuration.
- Dashboard approach and One-Click Management™ makes the product easy to drive and highly useful.
- Consolidation of a diverse set of functions that integrate the capabilities of network management and analyzer products as well as dedicated voice application ones.
- A sophisticated correlation engine that puts all the relevant functions together and automatically presents the results to the user for easy problem identification.
- A plain-text call analyzer (one click and it really is all there) with graded levels of event information to isolate call set-up issues.
- Flow analyzer and Call Playback facility can be applied to trace files from autoAnalyzer, autoVoIP and Ethereal™.
Technical Overview
- Grid overview of current status, error status and QoS levels for all phones. Grid is tab-switchable to show just active or error phones.
- Icon-based drill down-system to all reports, charts and diagnostic tools including real-time correlator.
- Destination Analysis Report showing quality status for defined destinations, subnets and routes.
- Registration Servers Report showing quality levels by server.
- Phone Status Summary Report showing status and quality levels for all monitored phones.
- Each report can be tab-switched to show status on a cumulative basis or for the last 15 seconds.
One-Click Management
- Reports, views, charts and diagnostics can be accessed using a single click.
- Reports are automatically generated - minimal or no configuration is required.
Fully Automated Functions
- Selecting a phone on the grid overview highlights its detailed status pane with status, error and QoS levels, including 'R' and MOS scores.
- Call and quality status report for all phones and calls including jitter, lost frames, ring and answer response times, and QoS scores.
- Historical reports on QoS and network activity levels.
- Call Analyzer with automatic filters showing call set up process with transaction response times.
- Real-time protocol analysis by server or user destination (URL fragment, IP address or subnet).
Automated Correlation Engine
- Automatic correlation of response times to traffic levels, broadcasts, number of phones, etc.
- Path Analysis using Codima Discovery Engine.
- Traffic Mining using both passive and active SNMP data such as queuing and dropped packets from switches and routers in the voice path.
Flow Analyzer and Call Playback
- Analyses the frame flow, breaking it down by class, i.e. Media, Signaling and Reoprting.
- Allows user to hear the call - replaying payload using a media player.
Requirements
- Windows 2000 or XP with 2Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM.
- RTP, RTCP and SIP on monitored phones.
