NetFort LANGuardian is a software product that gives you a detailed view of what is happening on your network, enabling you to take a proactive approach to managing it instead of reacting to events after they have happened.

LANGuardian monitors network traffic via the monitoring port on your core switch. It can monitor traffic conforming to standard protocols such as NetFlow and sFlow. LANGuardian stores traffic data in a database, so you can view historical as well as real-time activity on your LAN.

LANGuardian has a web browser interface that's easy to use and accessible from anywhere on your network. The home page is laid out in a dashboard format that shows you at a glance how your LAN is performing. It's also customizable, so you can set it up to prioritize the information you really need to see.

NetFort LANGuardian Features

Customizable browser-based dashboard
NetFort LANGuardian is browser-based. Its home page is laid out as a series of tabs, each of which contains a dashboard that you can customize by dragging and dropping the graphs and reports you are interested in. You can set up different dashboards for different users to meet their individual monitoring requirements.

Windows file share monitoring
The LANGuardian FileShare Monitor provides total visibility of user activity on Microsoft Windows fileshares throughout the network. You can build customized reports of data such as bandwidth usage and fileshare events. You can filter the output by user, department, and server, and you can drill-down to more granular information such as individual users and files.
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Traffic collection engine
At the heart of LANGuardian is a sophisticated traffic collection engine that collects, interprets, and stores raw traffic, Cisco NetFlow traffic, and sFlow traffic. Together with the underlying LANGuardian proprietary database and the sophisticated user interface, the traffic collection engine provides real-time and historical visibility of network activity.

Network and user events
You can group and display critical network and user events on your dashboard in real-time. LANGuardian can generate a wide range of reports -- here are some examples:

• Infected machines
• Skype users
• Large data transfers
• Spyware and adware

Data forensics
The ability of LANGuardian to combine real-time and historical data makes it the ideal tool for data forensics. You can run reports for limited time periods to investigate specific circumstances and answer questions such as "who was on the system over the weekend?" and "which users used the most bandwidth last month?"

Compliance
The ability of LANGuardian to combine real-time and historical data makes it the ideal tool for data forensics. It can produce detailed reports that enable you to meet your compliance obligations and comply with standards such as SOX, PCI, and Code of Connection (CoCo). requirements.

Trend monitoring over time
With the LANGuardian Trend Wizard, you can choose from a large number of trends and observe them over a specified period of time. For example, you can monitor traffic to a specific server or traffic originating from a specific user. As with all other LANGuardian graphs and reports, the trend graphs have drill-down capabilities that provide access to more detailed information at a click.

Instant alerting and e-mail notification
You can configure LANGuardian to send e-mail alerts to designated users whenever specified network events occur. You can also schedule any report to be sent by e-mail at regular intervals.

Rapid deployment
The LANGuardian installation process is quick and easy. Within a few minutes, you will know exactly what is happening on your network.