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What NerveCenter Does

There are a number of management tools designed to identify network faults and send you some type of alert. However, these tools often flood the event console with large quantities of events and network data. For every critical or warning message indicating a possible problem, such as a router that's gone down, you also receive many events as a side effect of the router down condition. You further receive large numbers of messages that are defined as normal, such as simple power-up operations. As a result, you or other operators must sift through the plethora of data before you can identify the real problem and take corrective action.

NerveCenter Correlates and Filters Network Messages

NerveCenter greatly reduces the data on your screen and helps you quickly identify network problems. NerveCenter intelligently interprets and correlates the raw network data to determine whether a problem is serious enough to warrant human intervention. NerveCenter can then take automatic corrective action to solve the problem, inform the management platform, or notify the appropriate person. You see only the real problems and don't waste time on false or redundant alarms.

As a network management tool, NerveCenter provides intelligent, proactive management of local and wide area networks.