No More Dumb Pipes: An Enterprise Perspective for Evaluating Network Performance Management Tools

No More Dumb Pipes: An Enterprise Perspective for Evaluating Network Performance Management Tools

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  No More DumbPipes: An Enterprise Perspective for Evaluating Network Performance Management Tools CA Performance Management’s Modern Multi-Tiered Architecture David Hayward Senior Principal Manager CA Technologies December 2014 Copyright © 2014 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
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  2 Deliver new innovative applications that drivenew revenue, growth and efficiency. More application workloads to drive the business. Greater business agility and lower IT CAPEX and OPEX. Data center consolidation & transition to private cloud. Greater traffic on network traffic must be managed. Virtual desktop services, video and tele- conferencing. Bandwidth capacity must be planned and utilization must prioritized and managed. Operations needs relief with more unified, user- friendly, intelligent and automated tools. Assure customer experience & business process performance. Large Enterprise Network Trends and Challenges Manage network size and complexity as it grows. Opportunities Challenges
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  3 Network Performance MonitoringRequirements For Today’s Application-Driven Enterprises 1. Scalability: Unified, high-scale monitoring at low cost. 2. Flexibility: Intelligent analytics easily customized, unified dashboards and reports. 3. Extensibility: Open architecture to integrate information, automate processes and extend functionality.
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  4 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 1. Does your tool unify multi-technology, multi-vendor device monitoring, across all network domains in a single dashboard? Evaluation Criteria 1 Example: Single solution that monitors the entire enterprise environment at very high scale – including all networking technologies across all technology domains. Solution
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  5 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 2. How comprehensive is the list of multi-vendor network devices that are certified for monitoring? Evaluation Criteria 2 Solution Example: Out-of-the-box support for monitoring a broad range of SNMP and non-SNMP devices from these and other network equipment vendors.
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  6 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 3. Does your network monitoring tool enable easy self-certification of new devices and MIBs? Evaluation Criteria 3 Solution Example: Modern API based on a REST Web Services for self-certifying new devices and new MIBs released by network equipment vendors.
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  7 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 4. Does your tool provide device performance as well as network flow analysis and application delivery analysis in a single dashboard? Evaluation Criteria 4 Solution Example: Dashboards that converge network performance and other data to allow more insightful and faster triage and remediation workflow. Application Delivery Analysis indicates degraded response for a specific application service on specific network segments and contextually launches details to determine if the degradation is the network, server or application. In this use case, the degradation is associated with network issues. Network Performance Monitoring of key performance indicators for SNMP and non-SNMP network devices on the degraded application’s network segment indicate healthy network devices. Network Flow Analysis shows root cause: one application is over-utilizing bandwidth and is denying bandwidth to the degraded application. This enables operations to improve application response through QoS, re-routing and/or protocol blocking policies. Dashboards can also incorporate VoIP and Video service key performance indicators.
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  8 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 5. Does your tool have analytics and scorecards that show key performance indicators in relation to applications, business cycles, customers and locations? Evaluation Criteria 5 Solution Example: Easily-defined scorecards for reporting health of services and groups of devices to technical and business stakeholders and customers. Example: Heat charts that show key performance indicators according to hour, day, week and month to reflect business cycles. Example: Click to convert any technology dashboard into a service-, tenant-, customer,- group- or location-specific dashboard or report.
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  9 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 6. Does your tool help you proactively manage capacity and combine trends with events to speed triage? Evaluation Criteria 6 Solution Example: See the granular details of specific events’ inflection points on a trend chart to improve and accelerate incident triage, problem management as well as capacity planning.
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  10 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 7. Does your tool enable instant visualization and scrolling of high-volume analytics and eliminate waiting time for metric panels, dashboards and reports to populate? Evaluation Criteria 7 Solution Example: Network performance management tools built on a modern, centralized multi-tiered architecture are designed to eliminate the bottlenecks found in older-generation monitoring tools and to ensure instant population of dashboards and reports with metrics and analytical data. Data Aggregator (DA) CA Performance Center Data Collectors (DC) ... ... Client Data Repository ADAeHealth NFA Tenants Modern, centralized multi-tiered monitoring solution architecture designed for today’s large, complex networks. Users of older-generation network monitoring tools (i.e., based on distributed polling and data storage architectures and peer-to- peer appliance-based architectures) report that that often have to wait up to 45 minutes for dashboards and reports to populate with polled data from across their networks.
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  11 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 8. Can your operators and engineers easily customize their own and reports without the help of administrator and without having to scripts? Evaluation Criteria 8 Solution Example: Easy drag-and-drop wizard enables Network Operations Center staff and network engineers to quickly create their own monitoring dashboards and reports without the aid of a tool administrator or programmer. Example: Self- customized dashboards and reports can mix and match any class of analytics according to a user’s preferences and best practices. With a click, dashboards and reports can also be converted to reflect specific services, tenants, groups, customers and locations.
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  12 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 9. Can your tool integrate with CMDB, Service Catalogs and other IT and business tools to automate monitoring and eliminate manual on-boarding? Evaluation Criteria 9 Solution Example: Using an modern and open API, you can easily define monitoring integrations with CMDB, provisioning and business systems to capture service definitions, then automate the on- boarding of monitoring to save staff from time- consuming manual labor and speed deployment of services. DISCOVERY Use IP_ADDRESS to generate discovery profiles and discover devices using REST Web Services. GROUPING Use Service_Name and Device_Name to create Service groups with rules to add devices into groups using REST Web Services. UPDATE INTERFACE SPEEDS UseContracted_Speed to update port speeds using REST Web Services. SERVICE DEFINTIONS Import/extract data from Operational Support Systems and CMDBs.
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  13 Can Your MonitoringTool Make Your Network Smart Enough? 10 Criteria for Evaluating Your Performance Monitoring Tools 10. Can your tool linearly scale with a minimum of additional physical or virtual hosts to keep capital and administrative costs from getting out of control? Evaluation Criteria 10 Solution Example: Network performance management tools built on a modern, centralized multi-tiered architecture provide very high scalability monitoring on an exceptionally small host footprint. Fewer required host servers; a centralized server cluster for data warehousing monitored information; and dashboards optimized to visually correlate a massive amount of data and made easy to customize altogether help dramatically lower capital and administrative costs of large network performance management.
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  For more information,see CA Performance Management at www.ca.com CA Performance Management is a big data collection, warehousing and analytics solution that helps enterprises maximize return on their network infrastructure investments and lower the cost of network operations.
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