An integrated approach to network traffic management provides benefits over traditional point solutions. A single-point solution can monitor all types of network traffic, support multiple protocols, provide insightful dashboards and reports, and analyze network behavior. This saves troubleshooting time, improves service levels, and maximizes return on investment by enabling better resource allocation and optimization.
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1. An Integrated Approach to Manage IT Network Traffic
- An Overview
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2. Agenda
A quick look at ManageEngine
Traditional Traffic Analysis Techniques & Tools
Changing face of Network Traffic
A Fresh Look – Integrate IT all
Benefits of a single-point solution
Use cases
Business Benefits
Summary
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3. Who Are We?
(Formerly Adventnet Inc.)
OEM / Telecom IT Management
division is also division with
SAAS solutions
the World’s #1 55K +
EMS customers
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4. Vendor Landscape
• Complex Integrations
Acquired • Expensive Business
Products Model
• Lower Price points
Independent • No integration
Point Products • Vendor viability
• Single Vendor
• Integrated Value
ManageEngine
• Affordable Price Point
ManageEngine Software is used by over 55,000 customers including 3 out of
every 5 Fortune 500 companies
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5. Traditional Approaches & Tools:
Network Monitoring Platforms – NMPs
Monitoring Tools Integrated with NMP
Commercial Monitoring Tools not Integrated with an NMP
Public Domain Network Monitoring Tools
Web Tools
Ancillary Tools enabling monitoring
Analysis Tools
Report Creation or Simulation
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6. Critical Factors to Look for:
Web based tool
Availability across the World
Ease & convenience
Report Generation
Multiple reports for multiple factors to be measured
Alerts
Troubleshoot reports
Compare reports
Good search options
Integration with NMPs
Specific to organization’s IT needs
Necessary but not sufficient
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9. Network Traffic Analysis & Monitoring
Hardware probes
Bulky and expensive
Limited scope for monitoring
Space & Maintenance constraints
Packet Analyzers
Voluminous data
Speed of analysis takes a hit for large volumes
Too much redundant information
Flow-based monitoring tools
Web based tools
No additional infrastructure or expenditure is incurred
Integrates the functionality and not the physicality
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10. An Example – Cisco NetFlow
Patented flow technology from Cisco
Versions available are v5(Traditional) and v9(Flexible)
Contains a wealth of information about the network
Needs a tool that can collect, analyze and report information
Needs enabling of flows at the routers and switches
No additional hardware installations are required
Supported by all major device types used widely in the market
Similar flow types include sflow, j-Flow, IPFIX, AppFlow etc.
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11. Allied Technologies:
Cisco provides a set of different technologies that facilitate complete
monitoring for all types of traffic
The following are examples of the same:
Cisco IP SLA
Cisco CBQoS
Cisco NBAR
Cisco Medianet
Cisco WAAS
Cisco Mediatrace
• Every type of traffic is thus covered
• If there is one tool that supports all of these, that is your Integrated Single-
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12. Flow-based Analysis Tools – What can you get?
Conversations
Applications
Protocols
Talkers
QoS reports
SLA reports for VoIP, WAN RTT and video
WAN Acceleration reports
Security reports based on Network Behavior Analysis
SINGLE POINT SOLUTION!!!
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13. What is expected out of an Integrated tool?
Insightful Dashboards
Zoomable graphs
Accurate & real-time traffic reporting
Analysis such as Trend analysis, Capacity Planning etc.
Support for multiple flow formats
Wide Platform support – Windows, Linux etc.
Network Behavior analysis
Covers the different aspects seen above like SLAs, QoS and more
SINGLE POINT SOLUTION!!!
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14. Benefits of a Single Point Solution
Saves troubleshooting time
Accelerates problem solving
Quick disaster recovery
Minimized downtime
Improved RoI – 1 tool that relieves all your problems
Smart(est) alternative to multiple tools from multiple vendors
A relief from silos in IT network management
Improved service levels
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15. Business Case 1: ISPs
Capacity Planning
Provisioning sufficient bandwidth
Make infrastructure based investment decisions
QoS Monitoring
To ensure prompt delivery of delay sensitive applications and associated data
Essential part in today’s networks
Deep Packet Inspection
Identifies applications using dynamic ports
More relevant information about packets traversing the network
Billing
To generate bills periodically
Options for speed and volume based billing – Special significance
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16. Business Case 2: Datacentre Traffic Monitoring
LIVE Traffic information
Top sources and destinations
Volume of traffic at each interface
Protocol Analysis
Forensic analysis of network breaches
Troubleshooting problems in the network
Network Security Anomaly Detection
To secure the datacentre
Classify and prevent possible zero-day attacks
Graphical Representation
Special significance in network spanning geographical boundaries
Easy management and monitoring with insightful reports
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17. Business Case 3: Financial Institution
Troubleshoot Network Sluggishness
Perform RCA in the shortest time
Identify applications causing sluggishness instantly
Minimize Downtime
Quick restoration leads to minimized downtime
Cuts cost due to accelerated troubleshooting
Alerts based on Configurable Thresholds
Prevents violation of traffic beyond allowed levels
Classify and prevent possible zero-day attacks
Continuous Availability
WAN RTT Monitoring
Ensures business continuity
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18. Business Benefits
Complete control of your network infrastructure
Up to 80% savings in terms of bandwidth optimization
Better resource allocation
Improved productivity
Cost cutting due to quick recovery from sluggishness
Assured service levels of the best class
Business-critical applications receive highest priority
Optimized resource usage
Minimum downtime
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19. Summary
Flow-based Web Tools are the best option
Easy to install
Most tools offer a free trial
Instant download and installation
Integrated Approach
The tool supports different flow formats(sflow, jflow, NetFlow, AppFlow, IPFIX etc.)
Wide platform support
Monitors QoS, SLAs, Security aspects, WAN accelerators besides mere traffic statistics
Analytical solution with insightful reports
Benefits
Assured availability of network resources to your business-critical apps
Maximizes RoI at no additional cost except the tool’s license fee
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Editor's Notes
Over the years, these techniques have evolved. Each one is independent of each other. Barring one or two that are interdependent.
Basic stuff
A time travel across the different buzzwords over different years
The limitations of traditional approaches and the benefits of the new one
Capacity Planning – More and more people seek the services of an ISP. The growth never stops. Accurate provisioning of enough bandwidth is the key to efficiently provide the serviceQoS – Prioritizing delay-sensitive applications such as VoIP telephony etc. is very critical for an ISP to continue getting the goodwill of his customers. Deep Packet Inspection – To classify the traffic in the network, right identification of packet parameters is very important. Using a technology such as NBAR allows deep packet inspection and helps in getting much more information from the packets. Whether or not that practice is something that the ISP’s customers like or not is debatable. But, for obvious reasons, ISPs do resort to such techniques and a monitoring tool is in this case inevitable. Billing – ISPs can auto-generate the bills to charge their customers based on their usage in terms of either speed or volume
Real time analysis is critical. LIVE data matters the most to fix the issues Protocol analysis has a lot of points on its flip side but despite that it can be used as an effective troubleshooting tool NBA & Network security