Preparing Your Network for Big Event Surges

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Introduction

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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1Proactivelymonitor and get clear visibility into network health

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

Network Discovery

Network Mapping

Network Traffic Flow

Network Traffic Flow Analysis

Dashboards – Health Check

2Prepareyour network with baseline and simulation testing

Testing 1 – 2 - 3

• Importance of baseline measurements

• Traffic simulation testing with free Traffic Jam Utility

• Identify excessive bandwidth utilization

• Determine bottlenecks

3Performquick problem detection, diagnosis and repair

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

Looking at the Data

• Real-time

• Snapshot

• Dashboards

• Device details

Looking at the Data

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)

Dell Delivers Integrated Management

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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