Network General's efforts to break out of being typecast in the Sniffer mold with products like the Infinistream and Netvigil. Both products were used this last year at the Interop Las Vegas 2006 and Interop New York 2006 trades shows. Positioned between products like IpSwitch's What's Up Gold and CA Unicenter/HP OpenView; Netvigil is trying to temp your IT dollars by combining depth of monitoring without Network General’s efforts to break out of being typecast in the Sniffer mold with products like the Infinistream and Netvigil. Both products were used this last year at the Interop Las Vegas 2006 and Interop New York 2006 trades shows. Positioned between products like IpSwitch’s What’s Up Gold and CA Unicenter/HP OpenView; Netvigil is trying to temp your IT dollars by combining depth of monitoring without forcing you into additional NOC personnel.Link to Sniffer Enterprise NetVigil – IT Performance Management Solution – Network General Key to Netvigil is its ability to do complex SNMP queries without custom written MIBs. In fact, one of the demos touched on how you can actually just toss in the OID. (Object IDentifier) Known as a “MIB object identifier” or “MIB variable” in the SNMP network management protocol, an OID is a number assigned to devices in a network for identification purposes. OID numbering is hierarchical. Using the IETF notation of digits and dots, resembling very long IP addresses, various registries such as ANSI assign high-level numbers to vendors and organizations. They, in turn, append digits to the number to identify individual devices or software processes. (https://www.answers.com/oid&r=67)Another key feature is a very granular approach to delegation of monitoring duties where departments can be responsible for day to day stuff, with alerts cascading depending upon user defined rules. With the number of configuration items available here, I’m hoping to find some sort of tool to help display rights and permissions inheritance so that the sysadmin doesn’t find themselves giving away too many rights and breaking a compliance model.So look for a full review in the near future…but for now here’s a few screen shots to whet you appetite.Container Screen different devices and tests are logically grouped towards business services in addition to the traditional silos, we now can get business service visibility, for example the devices which provide your web presence to the world. Event Manager to show the right now and what happened recently. A view of all the tests for a particular device. Detailed view of a specific test. Also, this test was created on fly using an OID from the MIB. So an advanced test was created in minutes. Technology Industry