In this age when more and more applications and services are being delivered across the network, the efficiency of your network defines the productivity of your organization. Applications, such as voice, which are critical for your corporate communication need to be provisioned the highest priority on your network.
A Scenario:
A Network Manager receives complaints of poor voice quality from this client facing staff. This is starting to have a serious impact on the client engagement front due to high levels of latency and jitter.
The Network Manager uses ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer to investigate the root cause of this by looking at the QoS related reports to view the level of service available to his voice application.
He finds that 83 % of the total traffic is comprised of "Best Effort" category, which is highly undesirable. Suspecting that the voice traffic, which forms the bulk of this link's traffic, could be a part of this class, he clicks on the Show Applications link to view the application distribution for this class of service.
As suspected, the bulk of his voice traffic was bein routed using Best Effort, which was causing poor voice quality. He could easily fix this issue by configuring the appropriate class of service for his voice traffic.
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer provides an easy way to ensure that appropriate service levels are available for your business critical applications.
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.