Net Optics announced the release of a landmark advance of its popular Indigo Pro management solution. Indigo Pro now extends sophisticated new capabilities even farther into the virtual and physical environments, and supports advanced user authentication features, including LDAP and TACACS+.

As traffic spirals, today’s networks deploy an architecture of dozens–or sometimes hundreds–of appliances, including physical Taps, Phantom Virtualization Taps and Phantom HD appliances, data monitoring switches, and network controller switches.

Indigo Pro 3.0 offers a centralized solution for managing, configuring and monitoring these devices. The solution unites the management of hardware and software Taps into one stable and sustainable platform, providing IT with unprecedented levels of streamlined, responsive and coordinated functionality.

Indigo Pro 3.0 expands support to encompass Xen, VMware and other major hypervisors, allowing precise, efficient device management across the entire network. In addition, Indigo Pro 3.0 offers a High Availability (HA) cross-form configuration (e.g., physical-physical; virtual-physical, and physical-virtual).

Along with these enhancements, Indigo Pro 3.0 features the choice of MySQL database or PostgreSQL, with the ability to seamlessly transition between the two. The upgrade also delivers superior administration capabilities for Net Optics xBalancer, iBypass and third-party devices.