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Hello All,

Finally after a month long blog campaign running around Real-time IT, It’s time to bring in the last blog of the series. Today I would talk more on summary per se and also on Gartner’s research article written by noted analyst Jonah Kowall on ‘How to augment APM tool with other conventional monitoring tool’ which is attached in the eBook. We are finishing this series with a Webinar on January 25^th . One of the ManageEngine IT360’s key MSP customer Adam Dunlap, Director, IT network solutions, Appalachia Technologies will also join the webinar from Pennsylvania, USA to talk about the benefits of Real-time IT and how ManageEngine IT360 is helping him to gain that visibility into his business critical IT infrastructure to run smoothly. Register for the webinar here.

Talking about the blog campaign, we looked into two main aspects of Real-time IT:

1)    The need of Real-time IT to run IT at the new speed of businesses.Read Blog

2)    Need of end user quality of experience to ensure smoother transaction experience.Read Blog

In both blogs you must have noticed that much of the emphasis is laid on APM and ways to ensure smoother running of the business critical applications. One of the key finding from the Gartner research on APM is:  

“Combine server, network, database and storage base-level monitoring, with more in-depth levels of APM to provide a complete view of the application and its dependent components”

We with IT360 have been taking the similar approach to ensure all the components of IT are displayed and monitored from a single console. The diagram below will give a simpler approach to what we are trying to do. While doing so we went a step further by also integrating the service management console to same solution resulting into what we now call as an Integrated IT Management- Combining the silo’ed world of operations and service management.

Several other key findings are mentioned in the Gartner report which are of prime importance when laying out an APM strategy few of them are:

-       APM does not replace these simple monitoring methods, which should be employed on server, network, database and storage components.

-       New application delivery models require different monitoring technologies, methodologies and vendor offerings.

-       The implementation of targeted deep-dive monitoring enables the rapid diagnosis and resolution of issues, providing valuable feedback during the application life cycle. Read More

Also included in the report are latest developments in APM which enables the IT to have complete visibility in to the process and troubleshoot problems at much faster rate:

-       Application prospective: The renaissance of monitoring

-       Focus on sub components monitoring

-       The Role of the PMDB in APM and Conventional Monitoring

-       Challenges of cloud delivery

Read the complete complimentary report in addition to the ManageEngine findings on Real-Time IT here. We will be discussing these findings from report and how solution from ManagEngine supports it, Also discussing would be various business opportunities ahead, associated challenges and solutions. Register for the webinar here.

Cheers,

See you in webinar at 11:30 AM EST :)

Suvish

Related Links:

Webinar registration link:http://bit.ly/wsC1Yv

eBook download link:http://bit.ly/s6u1o5

Cisco has proved time and again, that it leads the market in both thought and action. Cisco LIVE, that started off as a networkers conference way back in 1989, has come a long way for more than 2 decades, as the biggest networking event in the world. It is one of the most sought after shows in the networking industry.

The 2012 edition of Cisco LIVE, scheduled to start Jan 30, 2012 at London, features some key players in the networking business. With budget cuts & optimization of resources being the buzzwords, businesses are vying to adopt the latest products to boost their network performance & hence boost productivity.

NetFlow Analyzer from ManageEngine, is a product that supports a whole lot of technologies from Cisco and has evolved itself as an inevitable tool for network Administrators to gain in-depth visibility into their network. NetFlow Analyzer has aligned itself with Cisco in the following areas:

• NetFlow
• Cisco ASA-NSEL
• Cisco NBAR
• Cisco CBQoS
• Cisco IPSLA
• Cisco WAAS
• Cisco MediaNet

It is easily the one product that has spread its wings into critical areas like QoS, SLA, rich media traffic monitoring etc. and that makes it THE tool to deploy in your network environment.

NetFlow Analyzer is a 'Registered Developer' in the Cisco Developers Network. In the areas of IPSLA, WAAS and NetFlow technologies, we are 'Cisco Compatible' and we are also an official 'Technology Partner' of Cisco.

We are glad to be present at Cisco LIVE 2012, in London at booth E81/84. Connect with us and get all your questions answered about NetFlow Analyzer and its alignment with Cisco. 

Follow NetFlow_geek on twitter & NetFlow Analyzer TAC on Facebook for more updates. 

You could also talk to us using our LinkedIn community, Bandwidth Monitoring & Traffic Analysis for Enterprises

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Source/Destination tab helps find the traffic from an individual host passing through a specific interface. The Source table will group all the source IP address in the conversation and the total traffic contributed by that host will be displayed. You can further drill down to an IP address/host to view the destination host with the application used and the amount of traffic transferred. This would be the same for Destination tab also.

Many customers have doubts regarding the IP that is shown as the top contributor under the conversations tab is not the top contributor in the Source/Destination tab. This is because, the conversations  tab lists every conversation happened whereas the Source/Destination tab will group those conversations based on Source/Destination IP address. When grouping is done, the top IP in the conversation might have less traffic compared with the other IP address. So, combining the conversations results in traffic difference in this tab.

This tab accounts for the IN and OUT traffic of an interface separately. For example let’s assume there is traffic coming IN from the Internet to your LAN and you are monitoring your WAN Interface, the Source IN will be the public network IP Address and the Destination IN will be your LAN IP.

If traffic is from your LAN to the internet through WAN interface the Source OUT will be your LAN IP and the Destination OUT will be the internet IP.

Source/Destination Tab in IP Groups:

The function of these tabs will be the same but there will be no IN or OUT. This is because the accounting of traffic is different from the Interfaces. In a conversation if the destination IP address matches with the credentials for that IP Group, this conversation will be accounted as IN traffic for that IP groups. Similarly, if the Source IP matches it will be accounted as OUT traffic.

Therefore in the Source tab will be accounting the Source IP address from which the destination is contacted and the Destination tab will show the IP addresses to which the groups was trying to communicate.

Hope this helps.

You could also visit us at booth #E81/E84 ICC London ExCeL at Cisco Live, London between January 30 – February 3, 2012. 

Join us on twitter @NetFlow-geek

Reach us on Facebook at NetFlow Analyzer TAC

Catch up with the latest updates in the industry, through our LinkedIn community Bandwidth Monitoring and Traffic Analysis for Enterprises

Arun Karthik Asokan

Hi All,

Yes, Yes!; the dissection of Real-time IT continues. From laying the introduction foundation of real-time IT to talking about business needs of the same, I shall talk about one of the most important technical aspects of real-time IT­- an end user’s quality of experience. Why is this important? Well, I see this as the junction where end users and technology meet. This is where organizations must make sure that all the parameters and underlying supporting infrastructure should work perfectly to give an unmatched experience to end users.

Gartner says, “End-user experience monitoring will become more important, because the point at which the end-user accesses the hybrid application will often be the only point where end-to-end behavior can be observed.”

End-user experience monitoring is evolving from evaluating the performance of individual applications to an understanding of the performance of all the applications available to the end user. This includes evaluating the behavior of end users regarding those applications. So where do you start to gain this understanding? First, you must identify what constitutes an end user's experience of an application. Is it the speed of response, the ease of access to information access or the depth of integration with other applications? Until you understand what constitutes a user's experience, you're not in a position to measure or quantify it.

One of my blogs in the APM digest takes a deeper dive into this aspect by explaining the various stages where monitoring is required for smoother transactions like:

·         Monitoring business metrics related to application performance

·         Monitoring the impact on end-user experience across infrastructure tiers

·         Generating synthetic transactions to measure end-user performance

ManageEngine takes a similar approach in its solutions to ensure visibility into the application. One such feature which we have in ManageEngine IT360 is Business Service Grouping (BSG), which, a colleague of mine, has spoken about in another blog series. To give you a short introduction to BSG, I would say: Group all the infrastructure supporting your business-critical applications and monitor the grouped infrastructure as a separate entity. This way, the organization can prioritize plus visualize what is happening in their system and easily troubleshoot the minutest of glitches without giving too much downtime to end-user.

In my earlier blog post, I mentioned a webinar on The first steps to Real-time IT which we are conducting on January 25^th. In this session, we will be explaining all such parameters which give you visibility into real-time IT. You can also hear from one of our key MSP customers, Adam Dunlap, who is the Director, IT network solutions, Appalachia Technologies. He will speak about how the ManageEngine IT360 solution is helping his team and organization overcome modern IT challenges and increase IT productivity. Also we will be discussing about various key points we mentioned in recently released Gartner co-branded eBook. You can also download the eBook here. So lots to discuss and lots to learn, book your slot for the webinar today. We already have hundreds of registrations from across the globe so far. Looking forward to a healthy Q&A session during the webinar.

See you there

Cheers,

Suvish

Related links:

Webinar registration link: http://ow.ly/8yVR6 

Webinar in the news, PR link:http://ow.ly/8yWvw 

eBook download link:http://ow.ly/8yWPJ

Introduction to real time IT: Blog series-I:http://ow.ly/8yVXR

Introduction to real time IT: Blog series-II:http://ow.ly/8yW0D

Business service grouping blog-series-I:http://ow.ly/8yVVD

APM Digest Blog:http://ow.ly/8yW2M

It is another milestone for NetFlow Analyzer to get listed in the prestigious ‘Products of the Week’ list of www.networkworld.com on Jan 9^th, 2012.

‘NetworkWorld’ is the bible of the networking industry and their listings & ratings draw a lot of attention among networking professionals. A lot of parameters like product features, value for money, continuous feature enhancements and utmost commitment to providing a quality product that meets customer requirement, has made our entry into the coveted list possible.

 

The amount of visibility that NetFlow Analyzer gives into the network, at an affordable cost, is simple unprecedented from all perspectives. Apart from performing the primary function of bandwidth monitoring & traffic analytics, the recent addition of Cisco Medianet reporting has thrown open a new dimension into tomorrow’s networks. With increasing volume of media traffic in the network, a wholesome perspective is more than essential for efficient use of available bandwidth.

Take our 30-day free trial here.

You could also visit us at booth #E81/E84 ICC London ExCeL at Cisco Live, London between January 30 – February 3, 2012. 

Join us on twitter @NetFlow-geek

Reach us on Facebook at NetFlow Analyzer TAC

Catch up with the latest updates in the industry, through our LinkedIn community Bandwidth Monitoring and Traffic Analysis for Enterprises

Sai Sundhar 

NetFlow Analyzer Team