NETWORK MONITORING TOOL: COLASOFT CAPSA 7

-Amit Singh Dahal

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OUTLINE

• Introduction

• Capsa 7 Features

• Capsa 7 Advanced Features

• System Requirement to Install Capsa 7

• Capsa 7 UI

• Comparing Capsa 7 with Pandora FMS and Nagios

INTRODUCTION

• Portable network analyzer from Colasoft

• monitors the network traffic transmitted over a local network

• helps network administrators troubleshoot network problems

• adopts new user interface style of Microsoft Office 2007, which intends to display analysis statistics in a more simple-straight and graphical style

CAPSA 7 FEATURES:

• Network traffic analysis

• Network communication monitoring

• Network problems diagnosis

• Network security analysis

• Network performance detecting

• Network protocol analysis

ADVANCED FEATURES

• Captures packets from a single or multiple network adapters

• Analyzes the header & contents of each packet

• Provides statistics on MAC & IP address

• Analyze Protocol (Data link -> Application Layer)

• Diagnoses different kinds of network problems

• Presents statistics in graphs

• Alerts Computer network anomalies

• Outputs packets & logs to files

• Logs DNS, web browsing, Email, FTP & IM services

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT TO INSTALL CAPSA 7Minimum requirements

• P4 2.8GHz CPU

• 2 GB RAM

• Internet Explorer 6.0

Recommended requirements

• Intel Core Duo 2.4GHz CPU

• 4 GB RAM or more

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Supported windows operating systems

• Windows XP (SP 1 or later) *

• Windows Server 2003*

• Windows Server 2008*

• Windows Vista

• Windows 7

• Windows 8

CAPSA 7 UI

CAPSA 7 UI (MAIN)

COMPARING CAPSA 7 WITH PANDORA FMS AND NAGIOS

NameIP SLA

ReportsLogical

GroupingAuto

DiscoverySNMP Syslog

Triggers / Alerts

PlatformData

Storage Method

Access Control

Nagios Via plugin Yes Via plugin Via plugin Via plugin Yes C, phpFlat file,SQL

Yes

Pandora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesPerl, PHP, C++

MySQL,PostgreSQL,Oracle

Yes

Capsa 7 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Colasoft Oracle Yes

REFERENCES:

• http://www.colasoft.com/capsa/network-solution.php

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa

• http://www.colasoft.com/resources/product-documentations.php

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyxCLll04c