NinjaProbe Forwarding Interface

Foundation: The Power to See All

NinjaProbe is a leading packet capture appliance which has been architected specifically to meet the demands of numerous network applications. Negating the need for one probe or sensor per application, the NinjaProbe platform can concurrently feed entire data payloads, filtered traffic or flow-based summations to multiple back-office security, analysis, monitoring and regulatory services.

Powered by proven Endace DAG card technology, NinjaProbe features a broad range of network interfaces – from T1/E1 to 40 Gig. Designed for wide-scale deployment, the platform is managed via a comprehensive web-based central management server and console.

Forwarding API

The Data Forwarding Application Programming Interface (API) enables any third-party application or service to quickly and easily leverage the full packet capturing capabilities of the NinjaProbe platform. Providing a layer of abstraction between the application component and the probe functionality, the forwarding API exposes multiple, core, data acquisition and relay operations using straightforward command-set constructs. Without the need for a single application tied to a single probe element, as in the past, this machine to machine interface effectively eliminates the need for direct human intervention, removing a manual layer of intervention between the passive capture element and data analysis software.

Inbound Control

The forwarding API affords Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) the ability to request traffic from the NinjaProbe appliance when and how their service demands it. With the ability to either store or immediately forward data for instant processing; request a granular, time-stamped, element of a rotating file-set or pre-filtered traffic (based on layer 2 and 3 header components), the platform effectively improves the performance and precision of the overriding application, whether it is performing real-time or post-analysis of network fundamentals.

Large capture files (PCAP) need no longer be stored then moved between network probes and monitoring services - saving time and network bandwidth resources while eradicating the necessity for software applications to perform the CPU-intensive job of parsing large quantities of unwanted data for the specific packets they need to examine - prior to carrying out their core analysis function.

Endace is conscripting able-bodied applications, extending them the authority to apprehend the data they need, when they need it, through the superior packet capture capabilities of the NinjaProbe platform.