MANAGEENGINE

NETFLOW ANALYZER

SAVES BANDWIDTH

COSTS AT A CENTURY

OLD

EDUCATIONAL

INSTITUTION

150 Glorious Years!

• A large University – 150 years old in the UK

• 3,500 employees on the payroll

• Over 25,000 students every year

• Close to 30,000 users on the network

The Challenge

• Monitoring traffic on the campus-wide network

• 26 Cisco and 12 Enterasys routers• Principal mode of communication – The

Campus network • Continuous availability was critical• Downtime can halt everyday activities

Requirements

• To monitor the traffic patterns on the network• To identify network faults in minimum time• To accurately forecast future requirements • To assist the network team in solving everyday

network issues• To ensure productive usage of campus

bandwidth• To ensure continuous network availability

Enter ManageEngine: Exit Problems

About the implementation

• NetFlow was enabled on all the 26 routers and 12 Enterasys routers

• NetFlow Analyzer analyzed the packet information

• The information exported from flow packets were captured by NetFlow Analyzer and reported

• Network traffic statistics were thus collected and monitored

The Fruits of using NetFlow Analyzer

What NetFlow Analyzer offered?

• Daily reports on network bandwidth consumption

• Reports enabled easy troubleshooting • Easy troubleshooting saved troubleshooting

time and hence network downtime• Alarms for threshold violations helped in fixing

issues instantly• Accurate capacity planning

Business Benefits

Business Benefits

• Ensured productive usage of bandwidth in the campus network

• Ensured uninterrupted connectivity and seamless communication

• Eased the network team’s job in troubleshooting network spikes

• Helped accurate capacity planning and need forecasting

• Alerts helped instant identification of issues

Contact:

NetFlow Analyzer Support: nfs@manageengine.com

Visit: www.netflowanalyzer.com

To download the case study: Click here

THANK YOU

- Presentation by: Sai Sundhar P