LANTREK Explorer
There can be no doubt that LANTREK Explorer is a fully featured professional class LAN Analyser for Ethernet (10/100Mbps) and Token Ring (4/16Mbps) networks. But what really differentiates Explorer, apart from cost, is the look and feel of the product and a totally fresh approach to the system's design.
LANTREK Explorer uniquely:
Adopts Chevin's revolutionary "Point & Shoot" mouse driven operation to take the mystique out of building filters to get to the information you need. De-multiplexes conversations by protocol allowing you to drill down into conversations, further than any other analyser on the market. Graphically displays network devices. Provides more statistical data on network activity than any other comparable product available today. Includes an SNMP device browser for FREE!
Requires no specialist hardware...
Operating under Windows NT/98/95, LANTREK Explorer is fully compatible with your PC. It uses the standard Microsoft NDIS driver to view your LAN through your ordinary Network Interface Card (NIC).
The intuitive GUI makes it incredibly easy to use...
Chevin leads the field in simplifying what is often a complex technology area and LANTREK Explorer is another classic product born out of this philosophy. The Graphical User Interface combines tabs and search trees ensuring that you always know where you are in the system allowing you to navigate around its powerful features. As with all Chevin products, LANTREK Explorer supports "Point and Shoot" operation, which means using your mouse to point at the information you want and clicking a button to view it.
Information at a glance...
The master control screen allows you to see all vital network statistics. Activity snapshots provide instant readouts of network utilisation using rev counter style graphics, colour graded to provide you with information about whether or not you are likely to have problems. History graphs show you if the current problem is just a blip or something more serious. Graphical data is supported with accurate statistics to further qualify any decisions that you may need to make. Alarms, based upon your own pre-set criteria, are conveniently listed at the bottom of the master control screen.
Automatic Discovery
LANTREK Explorer removes the hard work of auditing your network by automatically discovering and identifying all active devices on the LAN. It sees and registers all IP addresses and differentiates between servers, clients, routers etc. LANTREK Explorer's discovery mechanism removes the hard work associated with configuring the tool each time you use it on a new network.
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In addition, LANTREK Explorer provides useful hints about possible problems on your network as they occur.
Explore your network...
LANTREK Explorer is a Windows based application and makes excellent use of the graphical facilities offered by the operating system. In addition, it employs standard Windows type methods for driving the system. For example, LAN Explorer allows you to drive live on-screen reports using an explorer type tree structure. Call up vital statistics, detailed protocol information (including TopN), device activity charts (TopN, individual stations, Departments/Groups, type etc). Using the explorer interface you will be amazed at just how much information you can view in quick succession, essential when trouble shooting today's mission critical networks and applications.
Unique and powerful conversation profiling...
LANTREK's conversation explorer allows you to centre any device (displayed as a meaningful icon) and see all its conversations.	Use your mouse to point and shoot for more detailed statistics or even launch automatic packet capture and decoding. Chevin products uniquely de-multiplex conversations by protocol, extremely useful when trouble shooting as problems often relate to a specific protocol in multi-protocol conversations.
NO LONGER DO YOU HAVE TO BUILD COMPLEX PROTOCOL FILTERS BY HAND SIMPLY TO GET AT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED!
Pie charts...
A picture is worth a thousand words. LANTREK Explorer uses this principle to represent network activity. Using the Pie Charts you can immediately ascertain the contribution to network activity of the busiest nodes, departments, device types (workstations, servers, routers etc.) or protocols. Detailed statistical breakdown is provided for IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and NetWare.
LAN Wizardry?
LANTREK Explorer's LAN Wizard facility conveniently lists the essential data necessary to begin trouble shooting a network. At glance you can see which devices have exceeded your own pre-set time out thresholds. Nodes failing to respond to requests from others, devices with duplicate IP addresses, and all devices that are issuing broadcast packets in order of volume! Useful for curing broadcast storms. The LAN Wizard also allows you to list essential data for all nodes.
History...
LANTREK Explorer's unique history report archives network activity from the minute you launch the application. It allows you to travel back in time and identify periods for which post event analysis is required.
Reports...
A mass of data can be viewed using the powerful integrated reporting facilities found in "Data Lists". You can:
View essential data for all nodes, in address order, by device type, by department, by volume of data being sent/received, by errors, or by number of conversations. In every case you can select data based upon the protocol employed. Search to find a device by name, MAC address, or IP address. List all conversations, de-multiplexed by protocol and ordered according to your requirements. Do you want to see conversations by highest volume of data, by packets, by errors etc.? Retrieve essential data for all protocols. Export your data lists as .CSV files into Notepad so that you can manipulate the information outside LANTREK Explorer. For example, to produce management reports or billing invoices.
FREE IP Device Browser...
Having identified what you believe may be a problematic device, what better than to be able to interrogate that machine? LANTREK Explorer's IP Device Browser allows you to interrogate MIBs installed in your network-attached devices to verify whether or not your initial assumptions merit further investigation.
100+ DECODERS SUPPLIED INCLUDING...	Up
TCP/IP Protocol Suite SMB NETBIOS FTP TELNET SMTP SNMP DNS TCP UDP RIP GGP ICM IP ARP Novell NetWare Protocol Suite NCP SAP NETBIOS SPX IPX XWIN RIP ECHO ERROR AFRP LLC EGP SNAP RARP LLC SNA RPC IBM Protocol Suite SNA SMB NETBIOS NETBEUI IBMNM LLC SDLC SNAP NFS Protocol Suite NFS PMAP RPC TCP UDP IP DECnet Protocol Suite DAP NICE SMB CTERM MOP LAT LAVC SCS SCP NSP AppleTalk Protocol Suite ZIP RTMP ECHO AARP DDP LAP LLC SNAP XNS Protocol Suite SMB NBP XNS COURIER SPPIDP PEP RIP ECHO ERROR LLC SNAP ISO Protocol Suite SMB X.400 FTAM VTP ACSE CLNS LLC PRESENTATION SESSION TP ISODE SNAP Banyan VINES Protocol Suite DRP LLC SNAP MAIL SMB IPC SPP RTP ARP IP FRP LLC SNAP AFP
Recommended Machine Specification
LANTREK Explorer runs on standard PCs. For Windows 95/98 we recommend a Pentium 200MHz or above with 32M RAM. For NT a Pentium 200MHz or above with 64M RAM. LANTREK Explorer will run with most Network Interface Cards supporting the NDIS driver specification. For 10/100M Ethernet we recommend 3Com adapters, for Token Ring Madge 4/16 Smart Ring Node adapters. Token Ring adapters must be capable of running in a promiscuous mode.
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