What's New in Capsa v7.7

10+ New Protocols Supported

Capsa 7.7 adds 10+ decoders for new protocols, including SIP, SDP, MEGACO/H.248, MGCP, Q.931, SAP, H.225, RMI, Oracle, MMS, GOOSE, SMV, and GMRP. Capsa now decodes these protocols and shows you what information each packet takes. Several VoIP protocols are included. If you run VoIP service on the network, Capsa helps to analyze VoIP issues, like voice quality and connectivity issues.

The following are brief descriptions for some of these protocols:

• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): a widely used protocol for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP).
• SDP (Session Description Protocol): a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters [RFC 4566].
• MEGACO/H.248: known as Gateway Control Protocol, a recommendation from ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) which defines protocols that are used between elements of a physically decomposed multimedia gateway.
• MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol): a protocol used for controlling media gateways on Internet Protocol (IP) networks and the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
• Q.931: the ITU standard ISDN connection control signalling protocol, forming part of Digital Subscriber Signalling System No. 1.
• SAP (Session Announcement Protocol): an experimental protocol for broadcasting multicast session information [RFC 2974].
• H.225: part of the H.323 family of telecommunication protocols.
• Oracle: a protocol used by Oracle database to transfer data.

Notifying Alarms by Emails & Audio

As an important feature of Capsa, network administrators can create alarm rules to watch network anomalies, such as excessive traffic throughput, excessive broadcast packets, etc. In previous versions, when an alarm rule is violated, Capsa would send a pop-up window on the screen to notify the administrator. But, what if he is not around?

Besides pop-up window notifications, Capsa 7.7 will now send an email to your email box, and/or play sound, when an alarm is triggered. When you are out of office or on a vacation, this function will make sure you are timely notified when there is something going wrong on your network. Receiving an email notification, you can immediately look into the case and solve the problem before it grows to affect your network performance.

More Improvements

There are also several other improvements included on this new release. For example, you can now right-click on a node on the Node Explorer window to create a report for the node (or node group). The task scheduler is optimized to make sure auto-packet-capture runs more smoothly. Also there are several minor bug fixes.