Caplum Active Discovery module enables Caplum to become an active part of your network with real time detection and monitoring of network configuration and utilisation. Coupling this with the powerful physical cable management in Caplum makes an essential tool for every IT department.

The operational benefits from Caplum active module are that it adds security, allows active traceability, automatically maintains Caplum records and recovers spare port capacity.

One of the immediate pay backs on this module is the recovery of spare sockets lost in your network. Spare port recovery can be up to 40% of an established network. The fully installed costs of a managed switch port is circ £15 per port. In a 10,000 port network, if you only made a 10% recovery, it would lead to year one savings of £15,000. Every year after that will have savings due to optimal port usage and informed management of the network.

Caplum Active will manage each switch port and the devices connected to it providing the following features:-

Automatically track the movement and the removal of VOIP handsets

Recovers spare port capacity recovering tens of thousands of £ over the first year.

 Automatically detects illegal patches

Compatible with Cisco, HP, 3COM, Nortel, Juniper, Huawei & Extreme

 Automatically detect (PnP) and add new switches as they are added to the network.

 Track and report illegal devices being added to the network such as users WiFi.

Report patched circuits that have not been in use for a defined amount of time, allowing the unpatching of unused ports therefore freeing the ports for reuse.

Helping security by not leaving unused sockets in an active state, making sure that access to your building does not mean access to your network.

Physical location tracing by IP or MAC address of a device and it’s location (room and socket).

Detects and reports unauthorised devices that have not been previously entered in a white list.

Real time capacity management ensures you have the capacity prior to VOIP rollouts or bulk moves.

Assists in the business case to purchase new equipment as you know when your network is "full".

Dynamic VLAN tracking.

Circuit trace display information includes the connected devices information.

Network scanning can be performed one to three an hour basis collecting the complete network with minimal bandwidth usage. Each port will give the IP, MAC, DNS name, VLAN and port configuration.