 "GL Announces Enhanced PacketScanWeb Software")
GL Communications has announced the release of its enhanced PacketScanWeb software - A real-time network monitoring system for VoIP networks. “PacketScanWeb along with GL’s PacketScan, Listener, and Oracle database, provide the essential elements for a centralised packet monitoring system. PacketScan is a powerful tool that captures live VoIP traffic, and segregates into SIP, H323, Megaco, or MGCP type calls. Hundreds to thousands of calls can be monitored in real-time including detailed analysis of selected voice band streams,“said Karthik Ramalingam, Project Manager, GL Communications.
“PacketScanWeb is a network monitoring extension of PacketScan, wherein multiple PacketScan’s monitor and provide statistics to a central database. With PacketScanWeb, users can assess in real-time various network wide statistics using a simple web based interface.”
“Using any browser-capable-device, you can access the results from anywhere in the world. The Real-time data consisting of details of all calls captured or measured by various PacketScan probes are displayed. PacketScanWeb provides various statistics such as, Probe Name, Calling/Called Number, Start Time, Call Duration, Session Request Delay (ms), Session Disconnect Delay (ms), Originating IP Address, and Destination IP Address,“said Ramalingam.
Ramalingam further added, ‘Call Detail Records’ can be displayed based on time filter or record index and have an option to export into PDF form. Each Call detail is depicted by message sequence which gives ladder diagram of the call flow between the Called and the Calling numbers. And enhanced Graphs & Reports view provides an overall summary of the captured packet traffic over the entire network with the help of useful graphs such as Call Volume Display, Call Failure Cause, Session Request Delay (SRD), Listening and Conversational MOS Display.”
Important New Features
Ability to Export both Reports view(Graphical) and tabular view into PDF
Custom Paging with options like Previous, Next, First, Last and user defined page for navigation of records
Check option to generate all/selected kinds of reports at a glance
Display of records with an option to select Time filter like calendar day or user defined filter
Other Features Include
Accessible remotely via browser based clients
Multi-user support, and user-friendly interface
Database stores the real-time and historic data collected
Supports interfacing with Oracle database
Provides database query methods to gather status, statistics, events & query results
Results are displayed both in tabular and graphical formats
Provides call details such as Call Graph, Frame Summary and Frame Decodes
- Custom Filters (Day, Time, Called/Calling Number, Probe, Payload, Duration