With the ever-increasing demand for better billing plans, the service provider has to be flexible when it comes to billing plans and bill generation cycles. Generalization is extinct and customization has originated. To be flexible, you need a software, which lets you to be flexible.
Scenario:
A service provider has to bill customers according to the link / interface bandwidth utilization. And the billing plan has to be customized, according to each customer's requirement. In addition to this, the service provider cannot afford to spend much of his/ her time mailing the generated bills .
At a time like this, usage based billing from NetFlow Analyzer comes handy. One can use ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer to create any number of plans by associating various links / interfaces as the need might be. Each bill plan can be scheduled to automatically generate and mail the bills to the customers.
Viewing the older bills generated for a bill plan is also possible. Graphs showing the traffic pattern can be very useful to drill down to the time at which the traffic was irregular.
Usage based billing is also very useful for large enterprises, which want to monitor the IP group based departments. Department wise billing can be done as per the 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 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.
