The story of how a US based datacentre monitored 1500 interfaces with NetFlow Analyzer.

1. Leading Datacenter Service Provider
monitors 1500 interfaces with
NetFlow Analyzer
Reference Customer Implementation

2. About the company
Datacenter
Collaboration
Security
Widely distributed locations

3. Challenge
• Ensuring best class service quality to
customers consisting of millions of end
users
• Real-time monitoring of traffic,
utilization and applications

4. What they were requiring?
• An affordable tool that performed real-time
monitoring
• Easy generation of traffic reports, utilization
graphs and application-wise bandwidth usage
• Alerting capabilities based on thresholds set
by the user

5. Customer’s network
1500 distributed
network interfaces
3 collectors

6. NetFlow Analyzer
• Real-time flow-based traffic analytics
tool
• Constant monitoring of the network and
graphs for real-time network traffic,
application-wise bandwidth utilization

7. Traffic graphs
• Real-time easy-to-interpret graphs
• Granularity up to 1 minute
• Zoomable graphs
• Export options to pdf and csv formats

8. Top Applications
• Identification of top applications
• Ensure bandwidth is used by
applications relevant to business
• Identify others and deprioritize

9. Top Utilization
• Traffic utilization graphs in 1, 5 & 10
minute granularity
• View total IN & OUT traffic at a
glance

10. Business benefits
• Visibility into traffic, utilization and
applications
• More control on the network
• Improved productivity and proactive approach
to monitoring and control the network
• Cost saving due to proper utilization of
bandwidth

11. Thank you
saisundhar.p@zohocorp.com