Pilot Console Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Pilot Console?
- How does CACE Pilot differ from Pilot Console?
- What is the Shark Distributed Monitoring System?
- What are the minimum system requirements needed to run Pilot Console?
- Does Pilot Console work with Windows 7?
- How many Shark Appliances can I use with my Pilot Console?
- Does the Shark Appliance come with my Pilot Console?
- What else can I do with my Pilot Console?
The Pilot Console is an expanded version of CACE Pilot that seamlessly and securely interfaces with one or more Shark Appliances to display, drill down into, rewind, alert, and report on, network traffic captured by the Appliances.
All features of the CACE Pilot analysis toolset have been migrated to Pilot Console. In addition, Pilot Console works in a distributed environment by connecting to a Shark Appliance to capture remote data.
The Shark Distributed Monitoring System has been designed to provide a complete enterprise-wide solution for increased network visibility through live traffic monitoring, full-line-rate data capture, real-time and historical traffic analysis, monitoring, and reporting from multiple locations.
The SDMS product family currently includes:
Operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
Suggested Hardware Platform:
Pentium-D (dual core) 2.0 Ghz processor
2 GB RAM
300 MB free disk space plus additional space for trace files and reports is needed
Support for graphics cards with a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768
Yes, Pilot Console runs on Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit operating systems.
No, the Shark Appliance SA 104, SA 208 and the Shark Appliance Kit are sold separately.
You can access remotely an unlimited number of Shark Appliances from a single PC running Pilot Console.
The Pilot Console can do EVERYTHING that CACE Pilot can do locally. It can also:
- Remotely connect to a Shark Appliance
- Capture remote network data and analyze packets
- Apply Views to discern ports, protocols and applications running on your network
- Provides hundreds of Views available for traffic analysis
- Apply Alerts and Watches that are triggered by preset or customizable parameters.
- Watches can be sent to the Pilot Console, email, syslog, Twitter and more!
If you have additional questions concerning the functionality of Pilot Console please review the CACE Pilot FAQs at http://www.cacetech.com/support/cace_pilot_faq.html.