Hirschmann Industrial HiVision v5.0 network management software

Version 5.0 of Hirschmann Industrial HiVision network management software builds on the success of previous releases by adding extensive customer-driven functionality. This is claimed to result in a pragmatic network management solution that meets the specific challenges of configuring and supervising an industrial ethernet network.

Rarely does a network today consist of equipment from a single manufacturer. HiFusion, a tool provided free of charge with Industrial HiVision v5.0, is a stand-alone application that facilitates the integration of any SNMP-capable device into Industrial HiVision. The tool also includes a wizard to guide users through the creation of the integration files. The version offers the best of both worlds: the device management granularity of a manufacturer-specific application and the device management diversity of a generic open network management platform.

Even as industrial networks are becoming larger and more complex, they must have the highest operational availability. The version offers distributed management in the form of a network management hierarchy that provides master and slave network management stations to ensure that any size of network can be supervised.