In any type of endeavor where there’s a problem to solve, the best approach is always to get as much information as you can about all aspects of the that problem. Once you have all the data points collected, you take it all into consideration and analyze it from different perspectives. Then you arrive at …
Network Performance Monitoring and Big Game Fishing Read More »
All of us here on the SevOne product team were excited but not surprised when Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recognized SevOne as a “Value Leader” in its latest Radar Report on Network Performance Management (NPM). With the amount of network infrastructure change taking place these days, and the complexity those changes involve, many organizations are …
In network performance management (NPM) today, flexibility and responsiveness are high up on the list of characteristics required for success. This is especially true in the area of threshold setting and performance alerting. Next-generation network environments are all about dynamically changing – making fast adjustments to respond to new events or capitalize on changes in …
Like most everything having to do with networks these days, network troubleshooting has changed dramatically. Part art and part science, the task of network troubleshooting has always been complicated and challenging. But now that so many organizations have embraced software-defined networking and shifted various IT and network operations to the cloud, the troubleshooting task now …
Network Troubleshooting in Next-Gen Environments Read More »
There was a time not too long ago when the industry standard for monitoring the performance of networks was to collect metrics via SNMP from key points of the network every 5 minutes. Why was 5 minutes picked? Well, that was basically the low limit, minimum amount of time required for legacy network performance monitoring …
Are Performance Monitoring Scaling Issues Putting a Damper on Your Network Visibility? Read More »
Using anomaly detection to help maintain network performance seems like it should be a fairly straightforward activity. Track enough performance data to determine what’s normal. Compare current activity to your ‘normal’ baseline. Look for things that are odd, things that deviate from normal. Those are your anomalies. Zoom in on them, figure out what’s going …
Anomaly Detection – A Challenging Task in Today’s Dynamic Networks Read More »
Not that long ago, network availability was what kept IT managers and NetOps team members up at night. They hoped that the operational status of their network environments stayed good. They feared that 3 AM issue escalation call informing them that the network was down – or worse yet, that there was an outage during …