Minimize business impact and avoid down time during big events and ensure employee productivity and critical business systems are not jeopardized.

1. The Power to Do More
with Dell Networking Solutions
Preparing Your Network for Big Event Surges

2. Introduction

3. Big Events Cause Network Mayhem
The convergence of personal and business devices has also
caused a shift in activities that occur while at work during
big events.
Video conferencing Music Downloads
Skype calls Video Streaming
YouTube Streaming Online Shopping
Web Surfing
Data Sharing

4. Why is the Network Slow?
From the user’s perspective performance issues are
typically tied to the network …
“Argh, the network is so slow today!”
“Why is the network so slow? This is
taking forever to load!”
“OMG! The Network is down AGAIN.”

5. Control the Mayhem
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Proactively Prepare Perform
Monitor and get clear your network with quick problem
visibility into network baseline and detection, diagnosis,
health simulation testing and repair
Minimize Business Impact
Avoid down time during big events and ensure employee productivity and critical
business systems are not jeopardized.
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6. 1
Proactively
monitor and get clear
visibility into network
health

7. Network Performance Monitoring
• Automatically discover devices and get relevant data
• Easily create network maps for all of your locations
• Effectively setup proper conditions and thresholds
• Enable timely responses with Notifications and Alerts
• Proactively analyze traffic and identify bandwidth hogs
• Track response time, availability and uptime

8. Network Discovery

9. Network Mapping

10. Network Traffic Flow

11. Network Traffic Flow Analysis

12. Dashboards – Health Check

13. 2
Prepare
your network with
baseline and
simulation testing

14. Testing 1 – 2 - 3
• Importance of baseline measurements
• Traffic simulation testing with free Traffic Jam Utility
• Identify excessive bandwidth utilization
• Determine bottlenecks

15. 3
Perform
quick problem
detection, diagnosis
and repair

16. Slash Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
• Simplify detection, diagnosis and resolution of network
issues
• Track response time, availability, and uptime of routers,
switches, and other devices

17. Diagnosing the Problem
• Collection points
• Network architecture
• Collection methods
• Looking at the data

18. What to Collect?
What do I need to collect?
• Obvious
– Network traffic
• Not so obvious
– Applications (source of network traffic)
– Server performance data
– Wireless
– VoIP
– Virtual Servers/Guest OS
• Even less obvious
– Device configuration

19. Architecture Impact
How Architecture affects Ability
• Simple, single site network –
easy
• Complex, multi-site network
– not so fast
• Monitoring Architecture must
adapt
– Agent-based
– Agentless

20. Collection Methods
Collection Methods
• SNMP
– Gets
– Traps
• WMI
– Services, Processes, SQL, Exchange
• Flow technologies
– NetFlow, sFlow, Jflow
• Log Files
– Syslogs
– Event Logs

21. Looking at the Data
Looking at the Data
• Real-time
• Snapshot
• Dashboards
• Device details

22. Alerted to a Problem
Alerted to the Problem
• Careful – Alerts can be a problem!
– False Positives
– Baseline
– Correlate Events
• Alerts need to be visible – Dashboard
• Alerts need to be timely – Email
• Alerts need to be tracked – Helpdesk

23. Slash Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
• Auto-Remediation (who wants to work anyway?)
› Trigger scripts when encountering specific conditions
› Schedule maintenance actions
• Tools to do the job
• GoLive Monitoring

24. Dell Delivers Integrated Management

25. Performance Traffic Remote Site Desktop Configuration IP SLA - VoIP
Monitoring Analysis Monitoring Management Management Monitoring
•Reduce •Identify •Scale with •Create asset •Back up and •Identify
wasted time traffic minimal effort Inventories track config latency issues
and chaos problems •Ensure files
•Troubleshoot •Ensure call
instantly secure •Detect policy
•Manage risk user issues quality
of downtime connectivity violations

26. The Power to Do More
with Dell Networking Solutions
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