Traverse automatically discovers applications, networks and servers/systems
on start-up, and also the relationship between the different L2/L3 devices
using technologies such as CDP, DHCP, arp, icmp & route tables. Traverse can
then build the topology map between network devices such as switches,
routers, VLANs, atm/frame-relay and older generation bridges and hubs. These
relationships are then used by the notifcation engine to prevent alarm floods
when a upstream device fails or flagging such devices as unreachable so as
to highlight the main cause of a service outage.
Traverse has also built topological
awareness and connectivity dependencies into its business containers. Rather than just labeling a loose collection of objects as a "business service," Zyrion
has gone a giant step further and made their Business Containers fully aware
of the underlying L2/L3 relationships between components. Traverse is capable of:
Automatically discovering devices and L2/L3 topology
Discovering the different components of a device such as interfaces, disks,
cpu
Discovering the different applications on a server
Creating business containers automatically based on simple policies
