This slide deck takes a look at the results from a recent network monitoring survey carried out by NetFort. The increased use of external SAAS and cloud based services; consolidation of servers into fewer data centres is driving demand for deeper insight into bandwidth consumption, especially on critical links. However, the number of applications in use on networks today and increased use of CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) makes it very difficult to see clearly what is happening and making life very difficult for network managers. NetFort LANGuardian is deep packet inspection software for investigating, monitoring, and reporting on network activity. LANGuardian helps network administrators to: - Classify network traffic by application and by user - Troubleshoot bandwidth issues right across the network - Perform network or user forensics on past events - Investigate activity on Windows file shares, - Keep track of user activity on the Internet.

1. Network Monitoring Trends
2014
The evolving use of network
monitoring tools
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2. Survey Highlights
• 76% of respondents already use network
monitoring tools.
• Most important feature not provided by existing
tools:
– Ability to break down traffic by application and user
• Reports most often requested by management:
– Information on bandwidth consumption
• 71% respondents think it is a necessity to
associate network activity with usernames and
not just IP addresses.
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3. Size of network
How many computers are you responsible for in your network?
Almost half of the respondents
managed networks of between
100 and 1000 computers.
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4. Network monitoring tools in place
Do you have any network monitoring tools in place at the moment?
Over three-quarters of the
respondents have network
monitoring tools in place.
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5. Network monitoring tools used
Which monitoring tools do you use?
Majority of respondents quoted
more than one tool.
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6. Tools used to monitor NetFlow traffic
Do you monitor NetFlow traffic and bandwidth? If Yes, how do you do it?
88% of respondents monitor
NetFlow traffic.
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7. Desired NetFlow solution improvements
What improvements would you like to see in NetFlow-based solutions?
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8. Features unavailable in current tools
What additional network monitoring features would you like that are unavailable in current tools?
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9. Information requested by managers
Are you asked to report to your manager on network information on a regular basis? What
specifically are you asked to report on?
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10. Information requested by managers
Are you asked to report to your manager on network information on a regular basis? What
specifically are you asked to report on?
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11. Information requested by managers
Are you asked to report to your manager on network information on a regular basis? What
specifically are you asked to report on?
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12. Importance of usernames in reports
Do you think associating network activity, including bandwidth, traffic, Internet usage with IP
address and username is a necessity or just nice to have
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13. Importance of usernames in reports
Do you think associating network activity, including bandwidth, traffic, Internet usage with IP
address and username is a necessity or just nice to have
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14. Use of DPI tools
Do you use any deep packet inspection tools? If yes what do you use?
Most respondents are not using
deep packet inspection tools at
the moment but plan to in future.
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