Network bandwidth usage is one of the biggest contributors to your network performance. By taking advantage of the flow technology that is built into most routers and switches, you can quickly identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot bandwidth related problems. Join our SolarWinds Head Geek, Don Jacob and Sales Engineer David Byrd as they discuss and share the tips and tricks to get the most out of your network bandwidth.
Hello everyone and welcome to the solarwinds webcast “NetFlow deep dive..: tips and tricks
Today, we will intorudce you to netflow and similar flow technologies that can help you with your bandwidth monitoring and traffic analytics. And then we will talk about how you can use netflow to solve day-to-day network problems after which we will introduce you to solarwinds bandwidth analyzer pack
For those who are new to Solarwinds.. We are developers of Powerful and easy-to-use Enterprise class software that can help with monitoring and management of your network, systems, virtualization, storage. Our products can cater to both the SMBs as well as large enterprises..there are more than a million registered end-users who have downloaded our free tools alone..
So, as I have said before, NetFlow is comes free with the vast majority of your switches, routers, and network devices, but how do you monitor all of this flow data that you are now capturing. You can, of course, telnet directly to the device and extract data using CLI. While this may get you your data, it is not the most user friendly or intuitive solution.
This is where automated tools come into play. SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack is a combination of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor and NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. NPM provides fault, performance and availability monitoring while NetFlow Traffic Analyzer collects flow data to tell you how your network bandwidth is being used.
When combined together, you can detect, diagnose and resolve network performance issues; track response time, availability, and uptime of routers, switches and other SNMP enable devices; monitor and analyze network bandwidth performance traffic patterns; and identify bandwidth hogs and see which applications are using the most bandwidth all in a graphical interactive web interface.