Congratulations on your purchase of SolarWinds LANsurveyor Express. LANsurveyor Express is network documentation software any network manager, administrator, engineer, or designer can use with Microsoft® Visio® 2007 to automatically map networks of any size. Right out of the box, an installation of LANsurveyor Express gives you the ability to draw maps showing the logical connectivity of your network devices and create status and inventory reports about mapped network devices. Once installed, LANsurveyor Express is integrated within Visio, allowing you to immediately leverage the functionality of Microsoft Visio 2007 for your network documentation requirements. Used independently, the easy-to-use LANsurveyor Express interface and the improved LANsurveyor Network Discovery engine will quickly have you mapping your network and creating status reports.

Why Install LANsurveyor Express

LANsurveyor Express provides a number of improvements over LANsurveyor for Visio, including the following:

• Improved network discovery methods
• Accelerated network discovery engine
• Additional support for SNMPv2c and SNMPv3

Installing LANsurveyor Express

Installing LANsurveyor Express is a straightforward process, and the system requirements are not extensive. Refer to the section titled "Installing LANsurveyor Express" in the LANsurveyor Express Administrator Guide for detailed installation instructions.

Hardware and Software Requirements

The following table presents minimum hardware and software requirements to ensure satisfactory performance.

 Note: If there is any disagreement, the following requirements supercede those found in the LANsurveyor Express Administrator Guide.

LANsurveyor Express Requirements
CPU	Pentium-class
RAM	256MB
Hard Drive Space	35MB
Operating System	Windows Vista, XP, and 2003 (professional, workstation, or server editions)
Microsoft Visio	2007 version

Network Requirements

LANsurveyor Express allows you to map devices on IP-based networks. The following ports and management information bases (MIBs) are also required to realize the full functionality of LANsurveyor Express.

Required Ports

If you are installing LANsurveyor Express on a computer that is operating behind a firewall or within any other type of network security framework, ensure that the following User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ports are open:

Required SNMP MIBs

LANsurveyor Express uses the following standard MIBs during network discovery:

• MIB-II that exists on nearly all IP routers and many IP devices
• Printer MIB that exists on some IP printers
• Bridge MIB to determine switch port connectivity (RFC 1493)
• Repeater MIB to determine hub port connectivity (RFC 2108)
• Various Cisco-specific MIBs for determining user defined interface names and switch ports

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