NetIQ Vivinet Assessor and Vivinet Diagnostics

NetIQ Vivinet Assessor

Pre-deployment network assessment for VoIP

NetIQ Vivinet Assessor helps you determine quickly and easily how well Voice over IP (VoIP) will work on a network prior to deployment.

Before you invest in costly training and pilot deployments, Vivinet Assessor predicts the overall call quality you can expect from the network and produces a comprehensive report on your network VoIP readiness.

Why assess your network for VoIP?

• Improve planning with predictive modeling, which narrows the scenarios that you will want to emulate on a live network
• Determine if your network can handle VoIP by evaluating and reporting on the network's ability to support VoIP's unique network requirements
• Predict call quality by collecting network metrics over time, which provides an accurate depiction of overall call quality once VoIP is deployed
• Create background traffic to simulate the impact of other application traffic on VoIP call quality

Key Features and Benefits

• Builds a network inventory, saving time by automatically surveying routers, switches and WAN links to be evaluated by Vivinet Assessor.
• Highlights limitations of current network devices, providing insight into potential needs for additional or upgraded devices before VoIP deployment by monitoring utilization statistics of current network devices and links.
• Performs configuration assessment, comparing information about device configuration gathered during a network inventory to a set of rules you supply—based on vendor recommendations—and reports any disparities.
• Provides polished, and customizable, assessment reports analyzing results at the end of the assessment. The report is easily customized and provides a straightforward executive summary that assesses the network's readiness for VoIP, along with detailed results by location for further analysis. Vivinet Assessor reports include information needed to identify potential problem areas.
  

NetIQ Vivinet Diagnostics

Pinpoint call quality problems in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks

NetIQ Vivinet Diagnostics quickly pinpoints call quality problems in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks and explains why you are experiencing reduced call quality.

Vivinet Diagnostics reduces the time needed to resolve voice quality issues and lessens the skills required for VoIP troubleshooting, both before and after deployment of VoIP. Though simple to use, the product provides the data needed to troubleshoot complex VoIP problems in Cisco and Nortel environments.

How Vivinet Assessor helps you

• Reduce the time spent resolving voice quality issues because you rapidly determine the cause of the problem and verify that your fixes were successful
• Automatically collect data needed to understand the problem and perform analysis to prioritize problems according to severity
• Identify root cause of VoIP problems to tell you why diagnosis occurred and where to look to fix the problem
• Maximize your current technology by setting AppManager to automatically start Vivinet Diagnostics when needed
   

Key Features and Benefits

• Reduces the skills required for VoIP troubleshooting by automating each step during troubleshooting—finding problems, identifying the cause and prioritizing them for you.
• Minimizes the tools required and provides deeper analysis by combining network discovery, synthetic transactions and monitoring of WANs, LANs and network devices.
• Integrates with AppManager and Vivinet Assessor.
• Generates informative reports that include comprehensive call quality information in the diagnosis phase. You can also sort by event severity.
• Enables troubleshooting both before and after VoIP deployment with NetIQ Performance Endpoints, lightweight software agents that collect information about network transactions for analysis and reporting.
• Requires minimal configuration by automatically discovering the information necessary to troubleshoot problems.