Structured Connectivity Solutions Surveillance provides IT managers with a vehicle for enhanced visual monitoring and recording of who comes in and out of IT areas and what they do while they're there.
Structured Connectivity Solutions Surveillance runs on top of Structured Connectivity Solutions Central and is integrated into the Structured Connectivity Solutions Central application. When viewing the Surveillance interface, the right hand pane shows up to 25 thumbnail images from Structured Connectivity Solutions monitoring appliances. An image border highlighted in color indicates recent movement.
A calendar control appears at the top left of the interface. Below is an Explorer-like tree display listing all the Structured Connectivity Solutions monitoring appliances which had surveillance events or camera motion events on the day selected. By clicking the "+" sign to the left of an appliance icon, you can see a list of all surveillance events for that appliance on the selected day. Choose a particular event, for example "11:36 PM" and a window opens showing the first image captured by the camera after the event. You can view a movie-like sequence of the subsequent images by clicking a button. Additional buttons let you speed up or slow down playback.
Surveillance events are based on the software motion sensing capabilities of Structured Connectivity Solutions appliances. The sensitivity level for defining a surveillance event is configurable. Also, portions of the image area can be "masked" to prevent surveillance events being caused by continuous sources of motion such as a flickering monitor.
Structured Connectivity Solutions Advanced Device Crawlers
Advanced Device Crawlers is the first monitoring technology to give IT professionals easy and secure cross-platform access to the physical micro environments-the internal vitals-within servers, switches, routers, UPS, and other network devices.
These data, which include information such as CPU temperature, fan speed, and power supply status, are found in a vendor's extended SNMP Management Information Base (MIB). Advanced Device Crawlers uses patent-pending Structured Connectivity Solutions technology to extract this physical data and then makes it available via the Advanced Device Crawlers software. An efficient, reliable approach to monitoring, Advanced Device Crawlers confines SNMP traffic to an organization's LAN. Thresholds can be set on the monitored characteristics. The Structured Connectivity Solutions appliance hosting the Advanced Device Crawlers sends alerts about a device's internals via any of the appliance's alerting mechanisms.
Advanced Device Crawlers is available for use on Structured Connectivity Solutions Series 310 and 400 monitoring appliances and can monitor up to 48 network devices. Physical data from vendor MIB extensions is available for servers from Dell, Compaq, IBM, and Sun; network equipment from Cisco, Extreme Networks, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, Avaya, and Alcatel; and UPS from APC, Powerware, and Liebert. Even more vendors will be supported in the future. Structured Connectivity Solutions also offers Device Crawlers, a subset of Advanced Device Crawlers which is included on 400 Series appliances. Structured Connectivity Solutions Device Crawlers provides MIB-II based status information on up to 48 individual devices within the monitored cabinet or room. Alerts are generated if the monitored devices fail to respond.
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