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Version History - LoriotPro V8

With over 15 years experience in the world of network and system supervision, LUTEUS is proud to offer a unique product of its kind, the version 8 of LoriotPro.

Although the user interface remains virtually unchanged, there is  no comparison with previous versions. The new internal data collector engine revamped, leverages the power of the Windows 64-bit multitasking operating system and propels the LoriotPro Network Management Software to crude power summits. With this new concept of multitasking engine, dozens of thousands of SNMP or other performance indicators can be collected within few seconds. The display is not outdone, dynamic dashboards "Active View" are able to present hundreds of performance indicators with a refresh rate at the second. It is of course necessary for configurations with several thousand devices to monitor to have a multiprocessor and / or multi-core with multithreading server hardware.

Active View has been enriched with many graphic display options to enhance their aesthetics and rendering. Transparency, gradients and hash of graphic objects can be controlled, texts can be positioned in their inscribed rectangle, lines ended with arrows, and rounded rectangles. Mouse over effects are available, including automatic zooming of the object, image replacement, over-lining. If the images used are animated GIFs, the selection of the displayed frame is manageable by the rules related to the dynamic properties of the object. Thus, by way of example, the position of a switch in the display can reflect the current physical position of the latter, a state that we have previously collected by SNMP and use to select the right GIF frame.

LoriotPro is also an application development environment based on the LUA scripting language. The infinite possibilities brought by this integrated sripting language can handle every conceivable need for monitoring and control of any technical infrastructures like information systems, audio and video broadcasting control, industrial environments of environmental controls and home automation, access and security controls.

A new graphical tool, the DashBoard Player allows the administrator to view and cycle through the most vital dashboards showing the status of real-time operation of the network and systems. This carousel of images can present graphs of statistical data, as well as dynamic network map (Active View). The images presented in the carousel are in pages in the HTML format and integrate the language LUA Scripting.

Also new are the statistical data graphs that display the summary information on the operating state and the device distribution of your network and system environment. For example, a graphic shows the number of devices by type (host, server, router, switch, etc.), and their current status of connectivity (IP reachable, SNMP reachable, in error, etc.) . The presentation of the data sets is possible with charts in 2D or 3D. The most common types of charts are available, pie charts 2D and 3D, 2D and 3D histogram, pyramid, polar, linear, donut, area, etc. The display of statistical data graphics is available on request from the web interface or automatically within the image carousel (DashBoard Player). Adding custom graphics is within the reach of the administrator, thanks to the concepts behind the solution which are based on reusable graphical templates and on LUA scripts that perform the data collections.

LoriotPro is software running in Microsoft Windows 64 bits server and workstation environment with a fully graphical user interface and multi-window. An integrated web server allows multiple user access. The proposed default interface is scalable at will through the creation of his own way to interface WEB, totally dedicated to your environment and your business operating methods. The use of open LUA technology, AJAX, JQUERY, offers full control over the solution.

In this new version, automation of recurring or programmed tasks is facilitated by a graphic interface for scheduling tasks, the Task Planner. In the calendar interface, it is simple with a few clicks of the mouse to define a task that will be triggered at a programmed date and time or at regular intervals, like each day, each week or each month. This task can execute a particular treatment such as the SNMP data collections, the audit of service quality SLA,the launch of  scripts, the  email sending or reports generation.

The directory objects, organization units, networks and hosts, support the Geo Mappinglocation. The coordinates, latitude and longitude can be specified in respect of the WGS84 system and be used to position the objects on MAP (google Map)

The support of IPv6 addressing is available with this release 8. LoriotPro directory can thus be enriched with devices and systems using with IPv6 addresses and be natively monitored by simple IPv6 ping and SNMP over IPv6  . The LUA script functions used for SNMP access are now compatible IPv6. The IPv6 standard is implemented in compliance with the RFC5952 and RFC4193. Remember, IPv6 is based on 128-bit IP addressing and is already present in the Internet to provide a huge address space to overcome the limits of IPv4.

The support of SNMP V3 protocol already implemented in LoriotPro has been expanded with new encryption functionality in either DES or AES128. By using SNMP V3 protocol between the SNMP MANAGER (LoriotPro) and SNMP agents, access security is guaranteed through strong authentication and confidentiality of the data exchanged is ensured by encrypting them. Encryption is achieved by the open source OPENSSL library.

The archiving and restoring of configurations as well as the loading of demonstration configurations are also natively available in this new version.You discover the LoriotPro software for the first time and you want to have an overview of its features. The demonstration configurations are there to help you by offering you imaginary and simulated networks and systems environments. Nothing is easier to discover the richness of the product to see it in operation on a simulation and without risk of disruption to your real environment. Some of the demonstration configurations use the high performances of LoriotPro with thousands of monitored IP devices in the directory.

 


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