" It has helped identify our biggest bandwidth abusers and malicious applications running on the network. It also has an easy interface to see the network stats on our different locations. "
Nick Rieber,
Technology Specialist,
Glenbard High School District 87.
With businesses getting more and more dependent on their corporate networks, you just can't afford to have any network incidents remain unresolved. You need a tool that helps you reduce network downtime and allows you to analyze the root cause rapidly.
Scenario:
A Network Engineer based in New York headquarters receives complaints from users in Washington that they are experiencing poor network performance. To quickly narrow down the cause of the problem the network engineer uses ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer and looks at the traffic pattern on the Washington link, which tells him that there has been a surge in this link over the last few hours.
He then decides to drill down into the top applications during that time period which caused this surge. Sure enough, he sees an unusually high amount of http traffic for this time of the day on that link
The network manager now clicks on the http application to view the top conversations on it. He finds two rather high conversations, which account for a major portion of the traffic, which caused the surge
NetFlow Analyzer is a NetFlow, sFlow, JFLow (and more) collector and analyzing engine integrated together. NetFlow analyzer does not require any harware probes and can be downloaded, used in your network environment and can be evaluated for 30 days. Go through the following useful links for better understanding of how NetFlow Analyzer can hel you in understanding your network traffic and bandwidth utilization.
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 presents you with all the vital metrics you need to be aware of as an administrator. You could drill down on it for any further information on any specific element of your network.