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Capacity Planning

Network equipment and bandwidth is expensive, so any decision to add capacity in today's world of tight IT budgets and limited resources must be carefully documented to show real need. Fortunately, SevOne offers a wide variety of features and reports to make capacity planning an open, simple and straightforward process.

Capacity planning studies in SevOne typically begin with users running trend reports on critical network assets such as switches, routers and servers. When analyzing reports, users can quickly spot traffic bottlenecks and drill down into any of SevOne's application and QoS reports for details. With up to 12 months of operating data captured and online, trends are more easily identified and capital requests are more valid.

SevOne features typically used in capacity planning include:

Network overview (TopN) reports
95th Percentile reports
Trending reports
Standard trend Reports
Historical trend reports
Business hours reporting
No roll up of data for first 12 months

Because SevOne is capable of monitoring the most critical pieces of the network infrastructure at a frequency established by the business, reports tailored for capacity planning are easily created. Reports aimed at gathering traffic statistics on up-links, core WAN components, or critical server CPUs, for example, are often set at frequencies of one or five minutes in order to highlight long-term capacity trends.

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