The BICS Network Management System supports a variety of monitoring options:

• Device-specific e.g. availability, CPU utilization, power supply
• Port-specific e.g. bandwidth utilization, transmission errors
• Connection-specific, e.g. availability, redundancy

The configuration management enables the backup and restore of the current configurations of all network devices.

• Check/alarm for changes in the current configuration
• Validation against the last or a reference configuration

Grafical view of your network topology:

• Grafical visualisation of the complete network topology
• Capability to change layout, format, design and arrangement oft he elements
• Option to add custom elements like text boxes, geometric shapes, images, …
• Intuitive navigation handling from this graphical view

Accurate information about the current state of a network device:

• Special, device type-specific views of individual device parameters.
• Photorealistic representation of the network device with active drill-down options for displaying port and hardware composition information

Evaluation of messages from network devices sent in syslog format.

• Filter mechanisms for forwarding/processing selected messages within the central BICS event and alarm panel.
• A large number of predefined events and alarms and customizable self-defined events and alarms

Generic, vendor-independent functions to administrate the VLANs on network devices.

• Device and manufacturer independent
• Perform port assignments without using the network device’s command line interface
• Global VLAN overviews
• Supports VLAN names, VLAN alias and VLAN IDs