Plixer NPMD

Device discovery

Track assets scattered across your entire enterprise. Gather a complete and accurate view of all network endpoints, including managed and unmanaged devices, and authorized and unauthorized devices. Understand what types of devices are on your network, device locations, and behavior in real-time. Validate enterprise software license agreements and ensure contract compliance and audit readiness.

Device profiling

The Plixer NPMD platform collects and analyzes contextual data from a wide variety of sources, including DNS, DHCP, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, NetFlow/J-Flow/sFlow, Active Directory, RADIUS Accounting, and port mirroring. It then categorizes devices using thousands of predefined device profiles, reducing dependence upon manually intensive, time-consuming processes, which then frees staff to focus on core business tasks.

Risk assessment

Gauge your enterprise’s overall endpoint risk with a concise, aggregated score. The Plixer NPMD platform calculates a summary risk score and breaks out vulnerabilities into four distinct categories: operating-system-related risks, device-related risks (profile identity), communications-related risks, and risks identified by external endpoint management/security solutions (integration).

Application performance monitoring

Network and application optimizations and root cause analysis require true end-to-end visibility. The Plixer NPMD platform monitors application performance by collecting, visualizing, and reporting on data that extends all the way from the user to the cloud. It also provides real-time detection of DDoS attacks, minimizing disruption and loss of revenue.

Contextual data to identify root cause

Through visualization of every conversation from Layers 2-7, the Plixer NPMD platform then correlates network-related data with metadata collected from firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and distributed probes. Better context is achieved by correlating traffic flows and the metadata collected from all corners of the network into a single database. You can then instantly identify the user, device, location, protocol, and application data for every flow on the network, making it easy to pinpoint the root cause of any issue.

Faster time-to-resolution

Rapid root cause analysis of issues causing poor user experience requires a combination of end-to-end visibility and easy-to-read reports on important data elements. Fast problem resolution requires you to easily correlate a user’s traffic with jitter, latency, and QoS misconfi