Application Delivery Assurance with the NetQoS® Performance Center

The Complete Network Performance Management Platform

Managing application performance and delivery across modern enterprise and service provider networks is a complex undertaking.  The NetQoS Performance-First approach is based on the premise that you must capture and analyze data from applications, devices and the network itself to get an accurate and comprehensive understanding of how an organization is supporting application delivery.

The NetQoS Performance Center unlocks the intelligence needed to manage the network for application performance with a full suite of analytics and reporting fueled by the most comprehensive data collection available.

• Ensure problems are resolved quickly
• Mitigate risk from planned and unplanned changes
• Assure consistent application performance
• Take measured steps to optimize application delivery
• Reduce and avoid costs

Data Collection

No single data source is adequate to understanding how the network is supporting applications, so the NetQoS Performance center collects data across a variety of sources: end-to-end application response times, packets, network traffic data, and infrastructure device statistics. To keep the overhead of network management to a minimum, the NetQoS Performance Center uses embedded network instrumentation (such as Cisco IOS NetFlow, IPFIX and Cisco NAM) and passive, data center oriented collection appliances. Active data sources such as SNMP and Cisco IP SLA are collected due to their rich content and ability to test across MPLS environments and assess readiness for applications like VoIP. Avoiding remotes probes and server or desktop agents greatly speeds deployments, improves scalability and reduces management labor costs and complexity.
Analytics

Multiple analytical capabilities—baselines, thresholds, trending, anomaly detection and automatic investigations—are applied to define “normal” network and application performance to enable management by exception and highlight issues before they impact end users. Each type of data and analytic capability is useful and important in its own right, but the combination and correlation of multiple metrics is a key driver for transforming from fault to performance management. The NetQoS Performance Center analytics are critical for calculating historical trending, real-time performance, and future capacity and infrastructure needs.

Reporting and Actionable Alerts

To transform the wealth of data and analytics into actionable information, the NetQoS Performance Center provides a single reporting interface with roles-based access and profiles. Flexible, customizable report formats and alerts can be tailored to the needs of not only network engineers, but also operations staff, server and application teams, and IT executives. The NetQoS Performance Center offers unparalleled flexibility to build customized views that include maps, dashboards, and charts generated from the full suite of underlying data sources and analytics.

From this intuitive, Web-based network monitoring and management console, you can access a top-down view of all applications—data, video, and voice—for your entire network infrastructure. And you can drill into detailed information provided by the NetQoS product modules.

The NetQoS Performance Center works with other third-party applications for both in-bound and out-bound integration. With just a few mouse clicks, any NetQoS Performance Center network monitoring view can be exported to any third-party Web-based application as well as Microsoft Excel. In addition, the NetQoS Performance Center has a published platform to display data from any third-party application.

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