This presentation is about how ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer played an effective role in managing network bandwidth at one of America's leading real estate companies Boston Properties.
2. About the Company
• Fully integrated, self-administered and self-
managed real estate investment trust
• One of the largest owners and developers of
class-A office properties in the United States
• Focus on 5 markets –
Boston, Washington, Mid-town
Manhattan, San Fransisco & Princeton
• They monitor over 80 sites
3. Business Challenge
• Viewing information on network health and
availability without spending hours and hours
on a daily basis
• At-a-glance view of the network traffic in
terms of applications, talkers and
conversations
• Quick analysis and troubleshooting of network
slowdown
4. Business Requirements
• To pinpoint the root cause of network
sluggishness
• Top applications, talkers and conversations
• Time of usage of specific applications
• Verification of DSCP marking for VoIP packets
to ensure that priority is given to them
• At-a-glance view of network health and
availability
5. They needed a tool that:
• Provided network snapshot
• Drilled down to pinpoint
source, destination, convers
ations etc. on devices and
interfaces
• Showed DSCP marking
information
• Scaled to a high extent
• Was affordable
7. What ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
did?
• Drilled down into the devices and interfaces
• Provided high visibility into network traffic
behavior
• Had the ability to view and understand traffic
patterns in customizable timeframes
• Categorized top applications, conversations
etc. in customizable dashboards
• Saved precious troubleshooting time by
pinpointing exact cause of network slowdown
9. Additional benefits of NetFlow
Analyzer
• Ability to create alert profiles based on
thresholds
• Automatic scheduling of reports on a
daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Trend analysis of bandwidth utilization on the
network
• Saved much more time and bandwidth
• 30 day fully functional trial version for easy
evaluation
11. About Implementation
• Monitor 750 interfaces
• Across 80 sites
• Evaluated for 500 Interfaces and are currently
using NetFlow Analyzer for 750 interfaces
• Currently use Enterprise edition
• Extensively use alerts, NBAR reports and its
deep packet inspection ability to track
applications using dynamic port
12. Benefits That They Enjoyed
• Saved troubleshooting time
• Minimized downtime a great deal
• Drilled down to the root cause of the problem
in minimum time
• Cisco NBAR reports helped tracking
applications using dynamic ports and
conserved bandwidth
• Bandwidth usage was much more streamlined
and saved costs by minimizing wasteful usage