Riverbed® SteelCentral™ NetSensor provides agentless infrastructure component monitoring and synthetic testing to deliver a comprehensive picture of how infrastructure is affecting network and application performance. http://rvbd.ly/1LNL1S5

1. NetSensor 3.0

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Infrastructure & Operations Challenges
§ What’s the health of the infrastructure
components supporting my applications?
§ I can’t deploy agents everywhere, but I need
to know how my infrastructure is performing?
§ How do I know if my sites / apps / devices go
down during off hours?
§ What’s the real root cause? Is it the
application, infrastructure or network?

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WMI
SteelCentral NetSensor
Collect metrics
via polling or
remote
instrumentation
Displays availability and performance
information in SteelCentral Portal for
consolidated network, app &
infrastructure troubleshooting.
Archive and roll-
up
Broad-based infrastructure component monitoring & synthetic testing
SNMP
Synthetic
Testing
• Network device performance metrics
• Windows performance metrics
• Availability and response time
SteelCentral NetSensor

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Synthetic Testing Overview
§ Monitors device, application or
service round the clock across
dispersed locations
– Detailed view of why and when the
downtime occurred
– Percentage of time the monitored
object was available
– Reachability, availability and response
time from different geographical
locations

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Synthetic Testing Enhancements
§ New
– LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol)
– Test passes or fails based on availability of
directory service provider like Active Directory
– Checks for a specific values in directory
service database
§ Enhanced
– HTTP / HTTPS
– Proxy server support
– NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication
– Selenium
– Sample tests for testing Google apps and sites
on Microsoft SharePoint
New and improved test types

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Test Results Details
§ Enhanced reporting of results to show details of passed or failed tests
§ Clickable time series charts
§ Pie-chart representation of results for rolled up durations

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§ Support for Linux
– RHEL6, RHEL7
– CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux
– 32-bit or 64-bit process
§ Test engine communicates via HTTP or HTTPS
– Secure communication is now controlled by NetSensor server
§ Automatic restart when necessary
§ Auto check software versions of Test Engines and notify operator of status
§ Ability to assign time zone and business hours to devices
§ New grouping rules to facilitate groups based on geographic locations
Linux Platform Support, Enhanced Security, Ease of Use
Synthetic Test Engine Enhancements

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§ NetSensor metrics are displayed
in SteelCentral Portal
§ Integrated viewing of application,
infrastructure and network
performance data for faster
troubleshooting
Your single source of truth for performance data
SteelCentral Portal Integration

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SharePoint Support
§ Poll WMI metrics from SharePoint
servers
– 73 different metrics across web front-end,
application & database tiers
§ Monitor performance of SharePoint
apps using synthetic testing
– HTTP
– TCP port
– Selenium
§ All SharePoint metrics displayed in
SteelCentral Portal

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§ Ability to selectively filter (include
or exclude) network interfaces
polled by SNMP
– Easy-to-use wizard-based process
– Offers more precise control over polling
– Enables more efficient use of resources
– Reduces amount of network traffic
introduced by poller.
Selectively filter network interfaces
Interface Polling Filter

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New Device Support
SKU
CPU
Utilization
Memory
Usage v2
Host
Memory
Usage
IOS Memory
Usage
Other Server
Metrics
SteelHead EX X X X X
SteelHead Interceptor X X
VMware ESXi X X X X
Cisco Nexus X X X
HP H3C X X X
F5 BIG IP X X
Palo Alto Network X X
BlueCoat Network X X
Juniper SA X X
Juniper Netscreen X X
Nokia IPSO X X
NetAppliance X X
Brocade X X
InfoBlox X X
CheckPoint X X
Enhanced
SteelHead
support!

12. Thank You
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