SteelCentral™ NetProfiler is Riverbed’s application-aware network performance management offering. This latest release, version 10.8.5, is specifically designed to help NetOps managers solve everyday problems faster and easier, supports IPv6, and introduces SteelCentral NetShark Virtual on SteelFusion Edge, which enables cost-effective branch troubleshooting by adding continuous packet capture to SteelFusion Edge branch converged infrastructure. To read more on the new verion: http://rvbd.ly/1IamIN6 To learn more on NetProfiler: http://rvbd.ly/1H7Nfd8

1. NetProfiler v10.8.5

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Application-Aware Network Performance Management
SteelCentral NetProfiler
• Avoid business-impacting performance issues
• Minimize downtime
• Improve IT collaboration
See The Total Performance Picture
SteelCentral NetProfiler
Centralized reporting & analysis
SteelCentral Flow Gateway
Flow collection & deduplication
SteelCentral NetShark
High-speed packet capture & storage
Monitor & Report
See the whole picture
Troubleshoot
Accelerated triage
Discover
Identify what’s important
PacketAnalyzer
SteelCentral Packet Analyzer
Packet analysis

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What’s New in SteelCentral NetProfiler?
Simplify and
consolidate
Useful info
out of the box
Provide context
Answer basic
questions in one
view
Automatically setup
dashboards to
solve everyday use
cases faster and
easier
Compare same
time interval for
previous day /
week / month or
apply business
hours to determine
how data is
trending
Manage related
widgets faster
Edit criteria in one
place and apply it
to all other related
widgets
automatically
Version 10.8.5

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ü Interface Critical Metrics
ü Interface Capacity Planning
ü Application Overview
• Single Sign On Overview
Maximize out-of-the-box value
Ops-Centric Dashboards
Surface
relevant
data
Streamlin
e
workflow
s
One-
click
creation

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§ Fast and easy to monitor the
interfaces you want
§ Frequently used metrics in one
place for quick health check
§ Highlights the “usual suspects”
– Most issues are due to “Top 10s”
– IP conversations
– Apps / ports
– QoS changes
§ Quickly triage network vs. app
issues
Operator-centric workflows
Interface Critical Metrics Dashboard

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§ Quick snapshot of bandwidth
utilization
– Average utilization over business
hours
– For most used interfaces
§ Highlight interfaces needing
upgrades
– Specify “high water” thresholds
§ Easily identify trends
– Compare to previous day, week,
4 weeks
Operator-centric workflows
Interface Capacity Planning

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§ Shows network KPIs for critical
applications and services
– Merges all KPIs into a single view
– User-definable for any app / service
– Most Active Servers
– Ports Seeing Most Activity
– Top Servers by Largest
Response Time
– Top Interfaces by Largest
Response Time
Operator-centric workflows
Application Overview

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Single Sign-On Overview
Out-of-the-Box Example of Application Overview
• Out-of-the-box view of accessibility
• Auto discovers Active Directory, LDAP usage
• Conveniently presents KPIs

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§ Business hour reporting
– User definable (days, hours, time
zones)
§ Time comparisons
– Compare current stat to same time
the previous day, week, or 4 weeks
– Available in tables (%), bar or line
charts
For more accurate analysis
Business Hour Reporting & Comparisons

10. Thank You
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