PacketTrap sells directly to customers, but it also aims at value-added resellers that are transforming into service providers. "VARs have moved from reselling equipment into more service offerings, where they manage a customer's infrastructure from their own location," says Goodman. The company is tapping into this market with PacketTrap MSP, which lets VARs offer network monitoring to small businesses that want to outsource IT functions to a partner. MSP is available as on-premises software or software as a service. How It Works PacketTrap's pt360 Tool Suite performs basic diagnostic functions such as port scans and lets engineers troubleshoot network issues...Read More
PacketTrap Networks says it has doubled the number of partners registered for its' partner program and has almost an equal number of agreements pending since launching it last December. And with the launch of its PerspectiveMSP solution, the company expects more VARs to join its ranks. The PacketTrap Partner Program (PPP) is directed at value-added resellers, IT consultants, system integrators and network administrators that service business with up to 5,000 end points....Read More
In some cases, you may be connected to the Intranet - meaning you need a set of tools to help you troubleshoot problems, or see a problem before you know it exists. PacketTrap’s pt360 allows you to flow results between tools, save network settings and favorites. The powerful, yet easy to use pt360 helps you tame your network...Read More
The old saying that "you can only manage what you can measure" happens to be true, so what can you see inside your network that allows you to manage it properly? If you can't see much, you'll be glad to know network management tools are reinventing themselves constantly. Let's take a look at three options, one traditional (PacketTrap) and two (Paglo and ManageEngine) using the software-as-a-service model...Read More
In these days of slashed budgets and layoffs, it’s important to find ways to do more with less. Enter ptFlow by PacketTrap Networks Inc. of San Francisco, which offers a means of discovering data about application performance on the network from old devices that otherwise would be unable to retrieve such information. “Every network, no matter what the size of the business, has network devices that can’t talk back,” said Matt Bolton, vice president of products at PacketTrap. “As a result, network administrators have a really hard time identifying bandwidth hogs or applications that are causing problems.”...Read More
At EMA, we’ve been pushing application awareness as the path to service-savvy enlightenment for network engineering and operations professionals. And yet, one of the big challenges is finding application activity details from the less well-outfitted corners of your domain. That might have just gotten a little easier. Last week, PacketTrap announced ptFlow, and what it represents is a means to get application-aware visibility in places where there are no xFlow-capable (i.e. NetFlow, sFlow, JFlow) devices. The idea is pretty straightforward – they created a software module to look at a stream of packets, pick out the relevant details, and construct and publish flow records...Read More
The network monitoring suite adds the ability to capture Flow-type data from any device that supports port mirroring. When Cisco Systems created the NetFlow protocol for gathering IP traffic data on its IOS-based routers and switches, it opened the doors for a number of other manufacturers to create similar systems. So many, in fact, that NetFlow has become an interational standared called Internet Protocol Flow Information eXport (IPFIX)...Read More
PacketTrap makes every router Cisco-like; NetQoS integrates SuperAgent with Cisco tools. Like it or not, Cisco gear resides in most networks and IT management vendors in-the-know realize if they equip their software with Cisco-smart features, then customers can't ignore them. Take PacketTrap. The start-up made available this week its Perspective 3.0, which now includes a feature dubbed ptFlow. This feature is a packet capture and filtering engine that allows network managers to gather traffic information from "non-Flow" support devices, meaning devices that don't support Cisco's NetFlow, sFlow (used by HP ProCurve) or J-Flow (the Juniper flavor). To take advantage of the ptFlow feature, devices must have port replication or port mirroring capabilities...Read More
PacketTrap Networks, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, was founded in 2007 in order to ease the pains associated with network management, and reduce the new burdens being placed on IT infrastructures, such as VoIP, SaaS (Software as a Service) and virtualization applications...Read More
There are a lot of network management systems out there but not a lot of them make network management easy for the network manager. I have worked with PacketTrap since the days of their free pt360 network troubleshooting tools and I have always seen their goal of making network management "easy" evident in their network management products. Since that introduction of their free tool, PacketTrap has come a long way and now offers a comprehensive network monitoring and management system called Perspective...Read More