NetFlow Analyzer provides a rich set of pre-built bandwidth
reports that provide in-depth bandwidth usage statistics and
let you drill down to see more details about a particular
host, application, or conversation that caused a bottleneck.
Apart from an instant view of which link is currently congested,
NetFlow Analyzer also lets you monitor bandwidth usage trends
over varying periods of time and make critical decisions on
capacity planning and enforcing security policies.
Traffic Usage Reports
View current, average, and peak traffic
usage patterns for an interface. Get instant visibility
into how much of available bandwidth was used up by the specific
interface. This helps to monitor bandwidth in a efficient way.
Historical Reports
View daily, weekly, and monthly traffic
reports on bandwidth usage. Observe usage trends across
hosts, applications, and time periods. You can monitor bandwidth usage for any time in the past.
Traffic Profiling
View reports on top applications, top hosts, and top conversations
over different time periods and drill down for more details.
Observe at one glance, who is using up maximum
bandwidth and for what.
Custom Reports
View traffic details for a specific
host, application, or conversation. Correlate information
to see who used up bandwidth, when was it
used, for what application, and for how
long.
Subnet and IP-range based Reports
View traffic reports across
a specific subnet, or a range of IP addresses. Observe
bandwidth usage per network
or subnet, and determine peak usage times and typical
usage trends across a group of users.
Interface Reports
View overall bandwidth usage summaries
for each interface, across different time periods. Determine
interface utilization statistics during peak hours, and resolve
network bottlenecks easily.
Resolvable Host Addresses
All traffic reports include resolvable source and destination
IP addresses to instantly view bandwidth
statistics from or to a website or a host.
Variable Displays
View traffic graphs in terms of volume
of traffic (Kb), traffic rate (bps), or as a percentage
of link utilization.
Exporting Reports
You can not oly monitor bandwidth, but export graphs and reports as PDF files and save them.
As a network manager you need to be on top of your network to be in control of the day-to-day happenings in your network. Especially, with more and more businesses being increasingly dependent on the internet, it is very vital that you are in total control of your network.Any network outage has to be quickly attended to and fixed right away. More importantly any network incidents has to be pro-actively attended to. NetFlow Analyzer with its proactive alerting mechanisms ensure that you are informed of any network exceptions as it happens. Also the drill down features let you quickly pin down the cause of any network problems and troubleshoot faster.
It is also very essential that you ensure your business critical applications are not starved off bandwidth while non-critical activities like music downloads hog the available bandwidth. By giving you an indepth visibility in to your network and the bandwidth usage statistics you can appropriately set QoS policies. It is also possible to categorize applications that consume bandwidth by port, protocol and IP address. This way you can be fully empowered to ensure that the business critical applications always have the required bandwidth.
As a network administrator you need to have all the reports to take the right decision. Especially when it comes to bandwidth capacity planning decisions the stakes involved are high and even a small mistake can cost huge money. NetFlow Analyzer with its long range historical reporting lets you take the right decisions. Also as a network administrator you need to have periodic reporting to understand how the network is performing. NetFlow Analyzer's automatic report generation feature at scheduled time periods help you with just that.
Should you need any specific information at any point in time, you could just access the application for a quick snapshot. NetFlow Analyzer's dashboard presnet you with all the vital metrics you need to eb aware on as an administrator. You could drill down on it for any further infromation on any specific element of your network.