AKIPS is a comprehensive network monitoring software designed to provide unparalleled visibility and control over extensive network infrastructures. It enables organizations to proactively detect, analyze, and resolve network issues before they impact business operations, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. With its scalable architecture, AKIPS can monitor over one million interfaces and process 500,000 flows per second, making it suitable for networks of any size.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Network Visibility: Utilizes SNMP, traps, syslog, and ping to monitor the entire network. NetFlow visualization provides insights into traffic paths, while the Switch Port Mapper traces connections between core devices and edge ports. The configuration crawler backs up and compares historical configurations of key devices.
- Alerting & Reporting: Allows creation of custom status alerts for critical network events, aggregated into device, event, and interface dashboards. Table and graph reports summarize relevant data, and unused interfaces can be identified to optimize network resources.
- Integration & Customization: Supports custom site scripts for advanced data analysis and integrates with services like Opsgenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, and Teams. Messages can be forwarded to specialized tools for deeper analysis, and devices can be grouped to view specific data logically.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
AKIPS addresses the challenges of managing large and complex network infrastructures by providing a scalable, fast, and cost-effective monitoring solution. Its proactive alerting and comprehensive reporting enable network engineers to identify and resolve faults swiftly, minimizing downtime and preventing issues from escalating into significant business disruptions. By offering real-time insights and historical data access, AKIPS empowers organizations to maintain optimal network performance and reliability.