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Lookout Eyes

Lookout Eyes is a network monitoring platform developed by TAC. It is the new name of the platform that combines two former standalone tools under the same umbrella. It addresses management needs of organizations operating big and complex networks with many devices and interfaces.

Lookout Eyes combines features and capabilities of two existing tools Mezura and CSI Force Genome, both developed by TAC. "Lookout" stands for the centralized management and reporting engine, whereas "Eyes" stand for the probes that are distributed accross the network for measurement data collection.

History
tacman was the first component that was developed by TAC in 2004. It was a scalable network performance and capacity management tool based on SNMP. In 2008 TAC introduced another tool named CSI Force with IP SLA Measurement capabilities. In 2010 TAC renamed tacman to Mezura. Mezura brought extensive feature additions and capabilities. In 2012 CSI Force Genome was introduced that addedd new performance measurement options such as HTTP SLA, FTP SLA and DNS SLA. In 2014 Mezura and CSI Force Genome have been combined under single platform with centralized management and administration capabilities for all features and measurement types and the name of the platform has been changed to Lookout Eyes.

Supported Measurement Types and Features
Supported Measurement Types:
 * SNMP
 * Non-SNMP
 * IP SLA
 * FTP SLA
 * HTTP SLA
 * DNS SLA
 * SNMP SLA
 * Remote MTU SLA

Main features of Lookout Eyes include:
 * Centralized management interface
 * Distributed architecture
 * Common measure definition store
 * Agentless
 * Advanced user management (LDAP/AD/Userbase)
 * Role and organization based security
 * Historical data store
 * Service based monitoring and reporting
 * Customizable user interface
 * Web 2.0 UI framework
 * Smart data visualization
 * Real-time monitoring
 * Integration API / SOAP / WS_HTTP / NET`TCP
 * Virtualization / Cloud & appliance support