Abstract: A system is described for monitoring and testing computer networks, such as enterprise networks that tend to have a number of geographically dispersed devices and interconnected sub-networks. The system includes a plurality of distributed agents coupled to a computing network. The system further includes a replay module coupled to the network that has storage medium to store replay data. The replay module communicates respective portions of the replay data to the agents, and issues commands to the agents to control introduction of the network packets on the computing network by the agents. The replay data stored by the storage medium may define a conditional flow for introduction of the network packets by the agents. Accordingly, the replay module may issue commands to the agents in accordance with the conditional flow.

Abstract: A system is described for monitoring and testing enterprise networks that tend to have a number of geographically dispersed devices and interconnected sub-networks. The system includes a plurality of distributed agents to capture packets from a network. The system further includes an aggregation module coupled to the network to receive and aggregate the captured packets. During the aggregation process, the aggregation module identifies duplicate packets that were captured by different agents as an originating packet traverses the network. A display is coupled to the aggregation module, presents the non-duplicate network packets, giving a user a clear illustration of network activity. For the duplicate packets, the aggregation module presents a representative packet, such as the originating packet, that may be expanded by the user to view the details of the duplicate packets.