Big Events Cause Network Mayhem
The convergence of personal and business devices has also caused a shift in activities that occur while at work during big events.
Video conferencing Skype calls
YouTube Streaming Online ShoppingVideo Streaming
Web Surfing
Music Downloads
Data Sharing
Why is the Network Slow?
From the user’s perspective performance issues are typically tied to the network …
“Argh, the network is so slow today!”
“Why is the network so slow? This is taking forever to load!”
“OMG! The Network is down AGAIN.”
Control the Mayhem
Prepareyour network with baseline and simulation testing
Minimize Business ImpactAvoid down time during big events and ensure employee productivity and
critical business systems are not jeopardized.
1ProactivelyMonitor and get clear visibility into network health
Performquick problem detection, diagnosis, and repair
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Network Performance Monitoring
• Automatically discover devices and get relevant data
• Easily create network maps for all of your locations
• Effectively setup proper conditions and thresholds
• Enable timely responses with Notifications and Alerts
• Proactively analyze traffic and identify bandwidth hogs
• Track response time, availability and uptime
Testing 1 – 2 - 3
• Importance of baseline measurements
• Traffic simulation testing with free Traffic Jam Utility
• Identify excessive bandwidth utilization
• Determine bottlenecks
Slash Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
• Simplify detection, diagnosis and resolution of network issues
• Track response time, availability, and uptime of routers, switches, and other devices
• Collection points
• Network architecture
• Collection methods
• Looking at the data
Diagnosing the Problem
What do I need to collect?• Obvious
– Network traffic
• Not so obvious– Applications (source of network traffic)– Server performance data– Wireless– VoIP– Virtual Servers/Guest OS
• Even less obvious– Device configuration
What to Collect?
How Architecture affects Ability• Simple, single site
network – easy
• Complex, multi-site network – not so fast
• Monitoring Architecture must adapt– Agent-based– Agentless
Architecture Impact
Collection Methods• SNMP
– Gets– Traps
• WMI– Services, Processes, SQL, Exchange
• Flow technologies– NetFlow, sFlow, Jflow
• Log Files– Syslogs– Event Logs
Collection Methods
Alerted to the Problem• Careful – Alerts can be a problem!
– False Positives
– Baseline
– Correlate Events
• Alerts need to be visible – Dashboard• Alerts need to be timely – Email• Alerts need to be tracked – Helpdesk
Alerted to a Problem
• Auto-Remediation (who wants to work anyway?)› Trigger scripts when encountering specific conditions› Schedule maintenance actions
• Tools to do the job
• GoLive Monitoring
Slash Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
PerformanceMonitoring
•Reduce wasted time and chaos
•Manage risk of downtime
TrafficAnalysis
•Identify traffic problems instantly
IP SLA - VoIP Monitoring
•Identify latency issues
•Ensure call quality
ConfigurationManagement
•Back up and track config files
•Detect policy violations
DesktopManagement
•Create asset Inventories
•Troubleshoot user issues
Remote Site Monitoring
•Scale with minimal effort
•Ensure secure connectivity
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