Netflow Manager - Network Traffic Monitoring

Netflow Manager provides you with the ability to deliver critical business services by managing your customer’s end user experience, enterprise-wide application and network performance.

Netflow Manager gives you the chance to react far more nimbly to reported problems and resolve them through diagnosis and correction.

The Netflow Manager suite comprises of:

• Netflow Manager/Tracker: Monitors traffic usage and how it's impacting network and application performance with actionable visibility. Provides quick and simple access from high level summaries down to individual flows.
• Netflow Manager/Reporter: provides integrated views and unique data correlation for effective management of application availability and response time analytics. Remote Network Manager| Reporter bridges the gap between business goals and customer experience by aligning disparate IT support groups in a unified system that provides enterprise service intelligence to help you effectively deliver networked applications to your customers.

Netflow Manager/Tracker features allows you to:

• Gain insight into how traffic usage is impacting network and application performance with actionable visibility that goes beyond simple Top N reporting
• Security forensics and anomaly detection capabilities allow you to quickly understand the impact of voice, viruses, hacking, multicast, DNS, peer-to-peer and worms
• Supports NetFlow V1,5,7,9, Flexible NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, and cFlow
• 100% web-based, fully URL controllable
• Available as a software-only solution.
• Quick and simple access from high level summaries down to individual flows

Netflow Manager/Reporter features allow you to:

• Determine which assets are consuming resources & where upgrades are necessary
• Auto monitor route performance to ensure best path
• Verify resolution of issues with before and after views of performance
• Understand the end-user impact of deployed applications
• Monitor Data Center consolidation efforts and compare to a baseline
• Auto alerts to an Application Performance degradation
• Quick ID of service issues so you can isolation root cause and domain (network, server or application)
• Auto monitor route performance to ensure best path
• Solve application performance issues and quickly isolate root cause by drilling down to a list of transactions, then creating the trace files to share internally or with outside vendors.

Netflow Manager/Tracker Advantages:

Deploy New Applications and WAN Service

• Reduce user impact by understanding network readiness
• Compare current application usage to historical baselines
• Monitor bandwidth allocation and protocol makeup for all traffic

Manage Planned Changes and Unexpected Events

• Proactively identify resource usage and abuse
• Validate the impact of change (Network and application)
• Immediately identify the affected resources (Network, server or application)

Solve Performance Problems Faster

• View and report on every conversation, host and protocol traversing the network
• Identify Quality of Service misconfigurations
• Understand the severity and impact of problems

Optimize Converged Voice, Video and Data Networks

• Leverage existing infrastructure
• Reduce trouble ticket MTTR
• Lower helpdesk call volume

Netflow Manager/Reporter Advantages:

Ensure the delivery of critical business services to your organization

• Leverage Cisco WAAS and understand the impact of application acceleration
• Tighter integration for the IT team and improve management and operations views
• Server resource metrics for troubleshooting and optimizing delivery of critical applications

Maintain business capabilities through individual productivity

• Robust client analysis
• Correlation of client performance with detailed application server metrics

Better utilization of IT resources to support users

• Common services, configurations and application performance capabilities streamline end-user workflow
• Complete visibility into servers and infrastructure to reduce mean time to repair