Announcing the release of dopplerVUE 2.0

dopplerVUE 2.0 is now available for download with exciting new features including discovering and mapping HSRP primary and secondary links, a new interface with graphics for better visibility, improved SNMP table polling and more! The 30-day trial is free, just like it was for the pre-release.

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For those of you who missed the pre-release announcement, here’s the new feature list:

• New interface with new graphics for better readability
• Manage ANY metric on ANY device with improved SNMP table polling
• Discover and map HSRP primary and secondary links
• New WMI wizard
• Easily create personal workspaces with the new dVUE templates
• Distributed architecture to extend the number of managed devices
• Improved database and architecture for increased performance

Plus - for distributed enterprise networks dopplerVUE connects with NeuralStar to create a two-tiered, centrally monitored, fully replicated enterprise network management system that provides:

• Increased fault tolerance
• Improved performance through load balancing
• Powerful disaster recovery capabilities
• Enhanced scalability

I’d love to hear any dopplerVUE or network-related comments or questions you have!

3 Key Steps to Actively Monitoring HSRP…

I recently discussed how to build a resilient network using HSRP/VRRP and as a follow-up, here are a few key steps to actively monitoring HSRP.

With HSRP on our network, there is a good deal of network reliability for end users. As the network engineer, this means when a link fails, end users rarely notice it. The backup link simply handles the load and business continues as usual. Just the way I want it. While my monitoring system does provide an alert to the link down condition, I like to handle these situations as a higher priority, since it has become a single point of failure.

Here are a few tips to actively managing your HSRP implementation:

1. Map out each pair – know when a primary route goes out, what path has been designated as the alternate (if you have many HSRP routes you can combine them onto a single map. The pre-created map makes it easy to find the paired item).

2. Create custom alerts for HSRP interfaces that indicate which path is a primary or secondary HSRP link. The HSRP interfaces need to be treated differently than a switch port to a user workstation due to their critical nature.

3. After service has been restored, review the interface load of the secondary link and evaluate how well it handled the traffic. Use this information to ensure your backup pipes have adequate capacity. This will improve your disaster recovery planning for any future events.

Here are some monitoring screenshots that show my HSRP map and an active alarm.

Figure 1. HSRP MAP (Primary is solid line, Secondary is dashed line)

Figure 2. HSRP Active Alarm – (identifies HSRP link route impacted)

Pre-Release of dopplerVUE 2.0 Now Available

To piggyback on the post last week about HSRP, I’d like to share that the pre-release of dopplerVUE 2.0 is available for download. dopplerVUE 2.0 has exciting new features including discovering and mapping HSRP primary and secondary links, a new interface with graphics for better visibility, improved SNMP table polling and more! The 30-day trial is free, and who doesn’t like free?

Here is the new feature list:

• New interface with new graphics for better readability
• Manage ANY metric on ANY device with improved SNMP table polling
• Discover and map HSRP primary and secondary links
• New WMI wizard
• Easily create personal workspaces with the new dVUE templates
• Distributed architecture to extend the number of managed devices
• Improved database and architecture for increased performance

Plus - for distributed enterprise networks dopplerVUE connects with NeuralStar to create a two-tiered, centrally monitored, fully replicated enterprise network management system that provides:
Increased fault tolerance

• Improved performance through load balancing
• Powerful disaster recovery capabilities
• Enhanced scalability

If you decide to check it out and have questions, please don’t hesitate to post here in the blog or send me a message! I’m happy to help with network related questions.

Here are a couple of screen shots of the new dopplerVUE interface: