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Chapter 5: monitor, Chapter 5: m, Onitor – MultiDyne ACI-2058 User Manual

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A54-3000-100 A

48

A

PCON

, Inc.

M

ONITOR

M

ONITOR

software connects to and controls any A

PCON

I

NTELLA

P

ATCH

Physical Layer Switch

using the PC’s serial port or TCP/IP LAN connection. The software is specifically tailored for
non-intrusive network monitoring and for sharing equipment such as traffic analyzers,
network probes and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) equipment.

A powerful addition to your network administration toolset, you use A

PCON

M

ONITOR

software to:

Electronically move and share monitoring equipment to increase utilization of existing
equipment.

Increase network visibility, getting a quick snapshot of network connections to monitoring
devices.

Gather information at-a-glance about ports, connections, data rates and more.

Employ digital diagnostics and I

NTELLA

P

ATCH

switch monitoring.

Control user permissions for modifying system status and software options.

Accessing M

ONITOR

software through W

EB

X requires a license key from A

PCON

. To find out

how to contact A

PCON

, see

Contacting A

PCON

on page 4. After obtaining the key, you must

activate the M

ONITOR

feature as described in

License Key

on page 98.

To find out more about operating M

ONITOR

software, see the M

ONITOR

User Manual.

Chapter 5

M

ONITOR

Chapter 5

Note

M

ONITOR

software is not intended for in-line monitoring/electronic tapping, wherein data is

passed through the switch, with traffic in both directions mirrored non-intrusively by the
analyzer device. To implement this functionality, consider the W

EB

X Realtime or Batch

interfaces.