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The new Asset Assurance service (announced today along with security and firewall options for private IP nets) includes device-monitoring, alarming, fault isolation, root-cause analysis, service-level reporting and IT service management to help corporate customers quickly pinpoint the cause of problems in their private IP networks.

According to Bill Moffitt, group manager of Solaris product marketing, the next phase of containers that moves them from being resource containers to being fully protected zones is fault isolation and security isolation.

Other features include continuous monitoring, integrity checking, fault isolation and remote diagnostics.

One particular case study focused on how the Mu Service Analyzer controls an Ixia (News - Alert) Ix-400T load generator and triggers fault isolation on the Mu analyzer based on a throughput failure (as detected by the Ixia device), according to the companies.

IxRave's advanced fault isolation capabilities are built into an intuitive user interface and tightly integrated with existing OSS data--empowering use by tier one call center agents while providing the details needed by tier two and three technicians.

Nectar/CMP is custom tailored and maintained for each client to provide visibility of overall system health, accelerate fault isolation and lower mean time to repair The platform boasts a dashboard interface for an intuitive view, along with a business process correlation system, 24/7 remote monitoring and alarming, release upgrades, patch management, application topology, event integration, fault isolation analysis services and help desk support.

Fault Isolation for all types of in-home wiring The iMG600 MOD broke new ground with a modular HPNA LAN module and diagnostics that enabled a service provider to isolate in home wiring problems before commencing a truck roll to investigate.

Routing can also benefit single-site InfiniBand installations (especially very large ones) by reducing the computational load on each subnet manager host server, and by providing fault isolation between subnets of a fabric.