Manage network performance

Managing network infrastructure to maintain adequate conditions for users is a challenge for most IT infrastructure teams. To achieve this they need a global visibility on:

• How their infrastructure is used;
• How it is performing;
• How they need to adapt it to cope with future usage.

Monitor network performance

IT administrators need real time view of network performance to ensure optimal conditions for business operations to be run through applications over the network.

SecurActive Performance Vision provides synthetic dashboards that represent the network performance in a single screen.

Understand network usage

IT administrators in their daily operations need to keep track of the use which is made of the network capabilities to:

• Diagnose and troubleshoot;
• Optimize;
• Make decisions in terms of network configuration.

Performance Vision provides an extensive set of views to understand network usage from dashboard views to detailed conversation and packet capture capabilities:

• Traffic matrix;
• Bandwidth charts;
• Comparison tables;
• Top reports.

Capacity planning

One of the key tasks for network engineers is to make sure they always provide sufficient capacity to avoid congestion. This is hard to achieve unless they can easily:

• View & analyze the current usage of the network;
• Track trends in network usage (increase for certain applications, new applications).

SecurActive Performance Vision provides a variety of reports to understand network usage, going from top level information to detailed communication level in no more than 4 mouse clicks.

Identify threats and risks

A network team has to deal, day-to-day, with unexpected events. Although the IT infrastructure is secured in many ways (network filtering, authentication, virus protections...), an unexpected event can still occur. It may be due to:

• A virus / worm infection;
• A misconfigured host, server or network device;
• A misuse of the network capacities.

SecurActive Performance Vision is an easy way to check if the network is behaving as expected and to pinpoint abnormal behaviors like worm / virus infections, misconfigured hosts or servers, legacy configuration issues following migrations, etc…