Nexus Director Monitor

Nexus Director Monitor is an open-source Nagios based solution for robust IT network and security system monitoring and management. Nexus Monitor provides an open platform to monitor network equipment, servers, firewalls, proxies, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus and spam servers, applications, databases and other mission critical components to measure both system availability and performance metrics. Network administrators can view the availability and performance via any standards based browser supporting AJAX including Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Nexus Monitor is available, as a cost effective solution for the needs of modern enterprise network managers.

This is the host detail screen providing real-time information about the status of monitored hosts.

This is the service detail screen providing real-time information about the status of monitored services.

Status Map shows in graphical view the child/parent service/dependency relationships of monitored hosts.

Tactical Awareness Center is a birds-eye view of the host and service status of your entire network.

Trouble View allows you to focus on specific outages or issues in your enterprise.

The Nexus Director Graphing engine produces graphs which are easy to read and pleasant to view.

The Nexus Director Graphing engine produces graphs which are easy to read and pleasant to view.

The Nexus Director Graphing engine produces graphs which are easy to read and pleasant to view.

The Nexus Director Graphing engine produces graphs which are easy to read and pleasant to view.

The Nexus Director Graphing engine produces graphs which are easy to read and pleasant to view.

Nexus Director Config

Nexus Director Config is an open-source Monarch based solution for robust configuration management. NDConfig is an excellent solution for environments with constantly changing configurations. ND Config supports profiles for Hosts and Services allowing the network administrator to create configuration profiles and apply those to a number of hosts or services.

The Nexus Director Configuration Editor is the central point for monitoring system configuration management.

WANSecurity profiles encapsulate best monitoring practices and gets you up and running in no time! Host and Service profiles are available to subscription customers.

NDConfig enables the web based configuration of all aspects of a service or health check. Built-in AJAX enabled help guides you through the configuration process.

View, change add and remove time periods in ND Config.

NDConfig enables the web based configuration of all aspects of a service or health check. Built-in AJAX enabled help guides you through the configuration process.

Configure system operators and network managers, backup configurations, and change the behavior of the CGIs in the control panel.

Create, delete, and modify contacts for alerting and notification purposes.

Ensure maximum monitoring system uptime by running pre-flight tests before committing the monitoring configuration.

Nexus Collector

Achieve Complete Transaction Awareness with Nexus Collector. Nexus Collector provides complete transaction awareness through event brokering, security information management and storage of RFC3164 syslog data for any financial application, database, firewall, IDS, anti-virus, proxy, router, switch, windows server, or any variant of POSIX compliant Unix including Linux, Solaris, and BSD. The Nexus Collector Master Cluster (NCMC) architecture is scalable to store and recall petabytes of data.

• Centralized syslog archival and control cluster
• Secure encrypted transport and datastorage
• Scalable architecture
• Helps achieve Sarbanes Oxley and other regulatory compliances
• Customizable event broker with thresholds, alarms and actions

Typical case study scenario with a global corporation with headquarters in Tokyo Japan. This diagram shows the relationships and flows between different WANSecurity devices and clusters.

Event broker architecture with forwarding to attached IDS Sentry.

Configuring filters on the Vendor and Product level allows for complex correlation techniques available only to Nexus Collector.

Select device and product types supported and sold by configured vendors.

Filter editor and viewer shows currently configured filters, alert contact, and contact groups.

A simple query for overload matches these results.

Nexus Weather

Nexus Weather, based on Network Weathermap provides a birds-eye view of link health and utilization status.

The Nexus Weathermap gives a birds-eye view of bandwidth usage on WAN links