Features
One server for testing the network between sites, watching your devices, keeping configurations and certificates in hand, and reporting on all of it.
Network testing
The server tests each agent on a schedule or when someone asks, stores the results and raises alerts.
- Call quality: latency, jitter, loss and MOS for a voice or video profile
- Throughput, latency under load (bufferbloat), path MTU and DSCP markings
- Server to each agent, or agent to agent
- Schedules and alert rules, with alerts by email, Teams or Slack
- Direct tests from the Manic Toolkit app
- Also works from any browser through the web portal, handy on a site visit
Infrastructure monitoring
- Up/down by ping, TCP, web page or SNMP; interfaces and throughput, CPU, memory and disks (SNMP v1, v2c and v3)
- Servers without SNMP, and their services, through the Pulse agent
- LLDP and CDP neighbours and automatic links between devices
- ARP and MAC finder: type an IP address, MAC address or name and see the switch port
- Discovery of devices on your network
- World, site, floor and comms-room maps, each showing the worst status inside it
Configuration backup and checks
- Encrypted configuration backups over SSH, on a schedule
- A new version only when something changed
- Compare any two versions with every change highlighted, and download them
- Checks for routing neighbours and routes, VLANs, trunks and LAGs, reachability, DNS, authentication and application ports, PoE and LLDP
Certificate monitoring
- TLS (including STARTTLS) and RADIUS/EAP certificates
- ClearPass, ISE and FortiNAC connectors
- Windows certificate stores and files, read through an agent (public certificates only)
- Entries added by hand, with renewal steps and a regular "is it still right" check
- Reminders to each certificate's owner, and to the team in the last week
- Private keys stay in Manic Vault; the key is matched by fingerprint and never goes to the server
Reports
On-screen dashboards and reports are always free.
- PDF and CSV reports for one or many agents over any period
- Reports emailed every week or month
- Call quality bands: Good, Fair, Poor and Bad
Agents and security
- Agents connect out to the server on TCP 5281 and need no inbound ports
- Agents run only Manic Pulse tests: no commands, no scripts, no file access
- Certificate pinning from the enrolment link, and a key for each agent
- Hash-chained audit log
- Secrets (SNMP, SSH, SMTP) and configuration backups encrypted on the server
People and running it
- Administrator, operator and viewer roles, and two-step sign-in
- Organisation sign-in through Manic Control, including Active Directory or LDAP
- Server for Windows Server, Linux (systemd) or Docker; agents for Windows, Linux and macOS, x64 and ARM64
- No cloud service needed — it all runs on your network
See what it costs
Buy the modules you need, or everything as Pulse Complete.