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1. No More Dumb Pipes:
An Enterprise Perspective for Evaluating Network
Performance Management Tools
CA Performance Management’s Modern Multi-Tiered Architecture
David Hayward
Senior Principal Manager
CA Technologies
December 2014
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Deliver new
innovative
applications
that drive new
revenue,
growth and
efficiency.
More
application
workloads to
drive the
business.
Greater
business agility
and lower IT
CAPEX and
OPEX.
Data center
consolidation
& transition to
private cloud.
Greater traffic on
network traffic
must be managed.
Virtual
desktop
services,
video and
tele-
conferencing.
Bandwidth
capacity must
be planned and
utilization must
prioritized and
managed.
Operations
needs relief
with more
unified, user-
friendly,
intelligent and
automated
tools.
Assure
customer
experience &
business
process
performance.
Large Enterprise Network Trends and Challenges
Manage
network
size and
complexity
as it grows.
Opportunities Challenges

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Network Performance Monitoring Requirements
For Today’s Application-Driven Enterprises
1. Scalability: Unified, high-scale
monitoring at low cost.
2. Flexibility: Intelligent analytics
easily customized, unified
dashboards and reports.
3. Extensibility: Open architecture
to integrate information,
automate processes and
extend functionality.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
1. Does your tool unify multi-technology, multi-vendor device monitoring,
across all network domains in a single dashboard?
Evaluation Criteria 1
Example: Single solution that monitors the entire enterprise environment at very
high scale – including all networking technologies across all technology domains.
Solution

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
2. How comprehensive is the list of multi-vendor network devices that are
certified for monitoring?
Evaluation Criteria 2
Solution
Example: Out-of-the-box support for monitoring a broad range of SNMP and non-SNMP devices from
these and other network equipment vendors.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
3. Does your network monitoring tool enable easy self-certification of new
devices and MIBs?
Evaluation Criteria 3
Solution
Example: Modern API based on a REST Web Services for self-certifying
new devices and new MIBs released by network equipment vendors.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
4. Does your tool provide device performance as well as network flow analysis
and application delivery analysis in a single dashboard?
Evaluation Criteria 4
Solution
Example:
Dashboards that
converge network
performance and
other data to allow
more insightful and
faster triage and
remediation
workflow.
Application Delivery Analysis indicates degraded
response for a specific application service on
specific network segments and contextually
launches details to determine if the degradation is
the network, server or application. In this use case,
the degradation is associated with network issues.
Network Performance Monitoring of key
performance indicators for SNMP and non-SNMP
network devices on the degraded application’s
network segment indicate healthy network devices.
Network Flow Analysis shows root cause: one
application is over-utilizing bandwidth and is denying
bandwidth to the degraded application. This enables
operations to improve application response through
QoS, re-routing and/or protocol blocking policies.
Dashboards can also incorporate VoIP and
Video service key performance indicators.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
5. Does your tool have analytics and scorecards that show key performance
indicators in relation to applications, business cycles, customers and locations?
Evaluation Criteria 5
Solution
Example: Easily-defined scorecards for
reporting health of services and groups of
devices to technical and business
stakeholders and customers.
Example: Heat charts that show
key performance indicators
according to hour, day, week and
month to reflect business cycles.
Example: Click to convert any
technology dashboard into a
service-, tenant-, customer,-
group- or location-specific
dashboard or report.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
6. Does your tool help you proactively manage capacity and combine
trends with events to speed triage?
Evaluation Criteria 6
Solution
Example: See the granular details of specific events’ inflection points on a trend chart to improve and accelerate incident triage,
problem management as well as capacity planning.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
7. Does your tool enable instant visualization and scrolling of high-volume
analytics and eliminate waiting time for metric panels, dashboards and reports
to populate?
Evaluation Criteria 7
Solution
Example: Network performance
management tools built on a
modern, centralized multi-tiered
architecture are designed to
eliminate the bottlenecks found in
older-generation monitoring tools
and to ensure instant population
of dashboards and reports with
metrics and analytical data.
Data Aggregator (DA)
CA Performance Center
Data Collectors (DC)
... ...
Client
Data Repository
ADAeHealth NFA
Tenants
Modern, centralized multi-tiered monitoring solution
architecture designed for today’s large, complex networks.
Users of older-generation network
monitoring tools (i.e., based on
distributed polling and data
storage architectures and peer-to-
peer appliance-based
architectures) report that that
often have to wait up to 45
minutes for dashboards and
reports to populate with polled
data from across their networks.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
8. Can your operators and engineers easily customize their own and reports
without the help of administrator and without having to scripts?
Evaluation Criteria 8
Solution
Example: Easy drag-and-drop wizard enables Network
Operations Center staff and network engineers to
quickly create their own monitoring dashboards and
reports without the aid of a tool administrator or
programmer.
Example: Self-
customized dashboards
and reports can mix and
match any class of
analytics according to a
user’s preferences and
best practices. With a
click, dashboards and
reports can also be
converted to reflect
specific services, tenants,
groups, customers and
locations.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
9. Can your tool integrate with CMDB, Service Catalogs and other IT and
business tools to automate monitoring and eliminate manual on-boarding?
Evaluation Criteria 9
Solution
Example: Using an
modern and open API,
you can easily define
monitoring integrations
with CMDB, provisioning
and business systems to
capture service
definitions, then
automate the on-
boarding of monitoring
to save staff from time-
consuming manual labor
and speed deployment of
services.
DISCOVERY
Use IP_ADDRESS to generate
discovery profiles and discover
devices using REST Web Services.
GROUPING
Use Service_Name and Device_Name to create
Service groups with rules to add devices into groups
using REST Web Services.
UPDATE INTERFACE SPEEDS
UseContracted_Speed to
update port speeds using
REST Web Services.
SERVICE DEFINTIONS
Import/extract data from
Operational Support Systems
and CMDBs.

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Can Your Monitoring Tool Make Your Network Smart Enough?
10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools
10. Can your tool linearly scale with a minimum of additional physical or
virtual hosts to keep capital and administrative costs from getting
out of control?
Evaluation Criteria 10
Solution
Example: Network performance
management tools built on a
modern, centralized multi-tiered
architecture provide very high
scalability monitoring on an
exceptionally small host footprint.
Fewer required host servers;
a centralized server cluster for
data warehousing monitored
information; and dashboards
optimized to visually correlate a
massive amount of data and made
easy to customize altogether help
dramatically lower capital and
administrative costs of large
network performance
management.

14. For more information, see
CA Performance Management at
www.ca.com
CA Performance Management is a big data
collection, warehousing and analytics
solution that helps enterprises maximize
return on their network infrastructure
investments and lower the cost of network
operations.

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