In today's fast-paced business climate, having reliable IT infrastructure is critical to running a business.  As computers and networking equipment become faster and more powerful, the ability to process information and gather data grows with it...as well as reliance on the network.  Maintaining network availability is necessary in ensuring that the systems that run businesses are secure and maintain their integrity.  One key component to maintaining network reliability is ensuring the physical security of the network.

Today it's more critical than ever to have real-time, organization-wide access to physical security data that can threaten the systems, infrastructure and assets that run a business.  NetBotz appliances protect against the kinds of threatening conditions - human error, intrusion, extreme heat, low humidity, water leakage - that could jeopardize the processes, operations, and transactions that form the backbone of a business.

NetBotz Central provides an efficient, productive way for organizations to manage their company-wide NetBotz appliances.  By providing a centralized server to mass configure, deploy and view data collected by NetBotz monitoring appliances, NetBotz Central creates a physical security network that spans the organization across offices, regions, borders and boundaries.

Benefits:

• Advance warning of equipment failure so action can be taken before systems fail.

• Increased system availability.

• Reduced downtime costs.

• Enhanced user productivity.

• Simplified trend analysis and planning with easy to use graphing, reporting, and exporting tools.

• Ability to quickly deal with unauthorized access to equipment.

• Straightforward implementation and administration; low overhead cost.

• Managed services applications for additional revenue streams.

NetBotz Central:

NetBotz Central software enables you to centrally manage and monitor all of your NetBotz appliances.  Now, it also
includes powerful new features that provide unparalleled physical threat management.  NetBotz Central gives you a 24/7 view into the status of your environment - whether on the production floor, in a remote server room, medical supplies storage area, or other critical space.

Highlights:

• Powerful tool for centralized physical and environmental threat monitoring of multiple sites, rooms, closets, or cabinets.

• Ability to arrange NetBotz appliances into hierarchical device groups for mass configuration operations, graphing and reporting.

• Map View for easy-to-interpret "heads-up" information.  Table View for detailed information in compact format.

• Ability to view current camera images for multiple appliances, or use NetBotz Surveillance for powerful surveillance functionality.

• Access to past alerts- including pictures and audio clips- by device/date/appliance.

• Ability to produce trend graphs and reports on all sensor information collected by NetBotz appliances as well as export data.

• Post-Only mode supports upstream-only communications, facilitating managed services offerings.

• Scalable architecture- Standard version 250GB of alert and data storage, Enterprise version 1 Terabyte RAID 5 storage, redundant power supplies and network interfaces.

• Administrators have detailed control over user privileges and access rights.

• NetBotz Surveillance add-on application provides visual record of all activity in an area, plus tagging and keywords to easily retrieve surveillance clips.

Organize and Configure Your NetBotz Appliances:

NetBotz Central allows customers to set up logical device groups of NetBotz appliances based on information such as IP address range, appliance model, or location.  Device groups can be nested hierarchically within other device groups and can be updated automatically whenever new NetBotz appliances are added using the auto-discovery process.  Once a device group is defined, configuration and threshold operations can be performed on all devices contained in the device group (or in any sub-groups that are nested within the device group) simultaneously.  Operations that can be performed include scheduling when sensor notification is enabled or disabled, specifying email or SNMP notification settings, and configuring sensor thresholds (such as temperature, humidity, or air flow) as well as appliance firmware upgrades.

Easily Monitor Your Appliances:

NetBotz Central presents all appliances in a selected device group in an easy-to-monitor graphic display when using the Map View interface.  Colors are used to indicate the current state of each appliance in the group, alerts or network outages are easily noted, and the current reading of a selected sensor is displayed for all appliances.  You can also use customize the background image using a map of a city, floor plan of a room, or other graphic to better represent the physical environment in which the appliances are installed.  Sensor readings, camera images, and the status of any NetBotz appliance are also easily available from the Map View.  Simply mouse over an icon in Map View, pause for a moment, and the current readings for all sensors integrated with or connected to that appliance appear in a pop-up window.

NetBotz Central can also display appliances and pods in a table format if desired, when using the Table View.  Colors are used to indicate the current state of each appliance or pod in the group, making alerts or offline status appliances easy to spot.

Generate Sensor Data Graphs and Reports:

With NetBotz Central, sensor data from selected appliances may also be displayed in a graph format.  Using the Graph View, simply select one or more appliances from a device group, select the desired sensor type, and specify the time/date range using the calendar control.  NetBotz Central then generates a graph for the selected appliances, showing all available sensor readings in an easy-to-read graph.  To see more detail, simply select a portion of the graph and zoom in on the selected data.  Graphs can be saved in JPG and BMP format for use in reports or presentations.

Report View enables the creation of data reports containing sensor data.  It works similarly to the controls for Graph View however the data that is returned appears in a table view.  Data about multiple appliances can be combined into a single report to simplify data collation, collection, and comparison.  The data from the report (or from a selected area of the report) can be exported as a delimited text file for use in other applications. Alert reports can be generated to show all alert events for a given time-frame and location.

Manage, Collate, and Review Alerts:

Current and past alerts are easily accessible.  With just a couple of mouse clicks, the user can review alerts by device group, date, and appliance.  The Alerts View shows picture and non-picture alerts that are stored on the NetBotz Central appliance for each appliance in the selected group.  Also, the Alerts View supports playback of both video and audio alerts generated by NetBotz appliances.

User Administration:

NetBotz Central provides a high degree of control over user access and privileges, enabling you to secure your physical threat prevention network while still providing your users with sufficient authorization to get their jobs done.  For each user account, detailed controls allow specification of what device groups can be accessed and exactly which tasks may be executed by the user on appliances within the permitted groups.  User interface characteristics- such as color scheme, whether IP address or appliance location is displayed, and more- can be customized to the individual user.  NetBotz Central's LDAP authentication support lets you authenticate users on remote LDAP-compatible directories such as Microsoft Active Directory or Open LDAP Directory Server.

NetBotz Surveillance:

NetBotz Surveillance is an add-on software application for NetBotz Central that automatically builds a visual record of who enters critical areas and what they do while they're there. This software acts as a central repository for pictures captured by NetBotz monitoring appliances and provides options for accessing surveillance events logged by date and time and play movie-like clips of those events.

NetBotz Surveillance also displays live "thumbnail" images from NetBotz appliances. NetBotz Surveillance clips can be 'digitally signed', which is the digital equivalent of a visually watermarked document. These digital signatures make it very difficult to hide any tampering with images, and provide high confidence in the integrity of the surveillance clips, making legal admissibility more likely in the event of court proceedings. Signed clips can be exported as a signed AVI file for playing on a standard media player. Standard media players will ignore the proprietary signature blocks, so the viewer will not see any difference between a signed or unsigned clip. The digital signature functionality is compatible with NetBotz 500, 420, and 320.

NetBotz Surveillance allows users to tag clips for later retrieval and review. Tags can include keywords and text description, as well as level of priority. Users can then use a flexible new search interface to rapidly find clips by camera, date, category, level of importance, or text. The user can query by an absolute date range or a relative range (e.g. last 2 hours, 1 day, etc). Queries that are expected to be used frequently can be defined as saved filters to be run at any time.