Network Discovery Drives IT Infrastructure Management
The speed and reliability of the interaction between end users and an application requires a complete view of the applications from an architecture that looks across all critical parts of the application delivery path. Understanding the network infrastructure requires a network performance architecture that provides the real-time network data management of the underlying IT infrastructure and network contributing to the overall network and application performance.
SteelCentral NetCollector is a network data management solution that acts as a central network analysis topology, traffic, configuration and events data repository and event integration engine for Riverbed SteelCentral IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM) solutions.
How It Works

NetCollector is the central data repository for NetAuditor and NetPlanner, as well as their add-on modules.
NetCollector performs a multi-vendor, deep network discovery and collection at Layer 2 and Layer 3 for configuration and operational data from the network using CLI and SNMP, then interprets the collected data to infer physical, logical and virtual relationships between network devices.