Functionality

This section describes various capabilities and specifications of Highlight.

Provisioning

• Provisioning API explained

• Bulkloading

Application Awareness

• Feature set Our Application Awareness feature set explained

Autodiscovery

• Bandwidth How Highlight can discover bandwidth from a configured QoS policy, and from DSL circuits

• Broadband Clarity How Highlight's Broadband Clarity feature works

• Classes How Highlight discovers classes from the configured QoS policy

• Multilink Explains discovery of switch interfaces bonded using LACP or PAgP; and WAN interfaces bonded using PPP

• VLANs How Highlight can discover VLANs (sub-interfaces) on monitored physical interfaces

• Switches Information gathered by Highlight and supported manufacturers

• Dynamic IP addresses How Highlight handles DNS hostnames and changing IP addresses

Highlight System

• Architecture An overview of how Highlight agents work with public, private and hybrid networks

• Server specifications Minimum OS, CPU, RAM and free disk space requirements for Highlight servers, plus network access required

• Performance tests Explanation of why use performance tests, which ones to configure, and what each test does

• SNMP objects Summarised list of SNMP Objects used in Highlight

• Data retention System defaults for retaining data used to create the Details page charts

• Polling interval System defaults for polling various elements in Highlight

• Customising Customising Highlight

• Features by vendor The options available in Highlight in terms of vendors and features

Network and Security Considerations

• Network overhead Explains and quantifies the small amount of management overhead that Highlight monitoring adds

• Security Explains Highlight mitigation of risk for SNMP Write access

Riverbed Steelhead

• Riverbed Steelhead Using Highlight to monitor traffic optimisation and application breakdown across Riverbed Steelhead devices