A leading bank with over 780 branches across the United States had problems with monitoring network traffic across the Enterprise and in finding out the most resource-intensive applications. This Slideshare explains how they solved the challenge with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer by monitoring real-time network traffic based on flow data and found out application-wise bandwidth usage.

1. Reference Customer Implementation
A Leading Bank with 788 branches Monitors
3500 Interfaces with NetFlow Analyzer

2. Customer Details
• Private bank with 788 branches
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Maryland, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Texas and more)
• Interfaces to be monitored – 3500
interfaces distributed at different
locations
• Cost of downtime – $2 Million/hour

3. Challenges before using
NetFlow Analyzer

4. Real-time view of vital statistics

5. Challenges & Problems
• What are the resource-intensive applications?
• How do I view my distributed network from one
point?
• How do I monitor which applications use maximum
bandwidth?

6. Customer’s network
Site A
Site B
Site C
Central
Server
Illustration not to scale

7. NetFlow Analyzer’s Capabilities

8. • Flow-based traffic analysis
• Real-time traffic reports
• Top Applications – Identifying resource-intensive
applications
• Probe-Server architecture for distributed
monitoring
• Threshold-based alerts
NetFlow Analyzer’s capabilities

9. How NetFlow Analyzer helped the
institution

10. • Identifying Top Applications
• Application-wise bandwidth usage
• Monitoring distributed networks
• Top conversations in the network
• Getting real-time traffic statistics
• Centralized configurable dashboard
How NetFlow Analyzer helped

11. Business value
• Single console view
• Better visibility
• Faster troubleshooting of
sluggishness
• Minimum downtime
• Optimized usage of resources
• Delivery of critical applications

12. Thank you
saisundhar.p@manageengine.com