Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• The Problem
• All other network management tools use
  traditional monitoring techniques (such as
  general purpose databases)
• This means they do not elegantly scale
• This forces customers to decide what part of the
  network they will monitor and what part of the
  network they will leave un-monitored.
• So most people monitor the wan and a few uplinks
  and they leave the other 95 of the network with
  no proactive monitoring at all.

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• The Problem If you have 150,000 interfaces and
  you are using traditional network monitoring
  tools
• You are probably monitoring the uplinks and a wan
  links.
• So you actively monitor perhaps 2000 interfaces,
  and you leave the remaining 148000 interfaces
  (98 OF THE NETWORK) with no monitoring at all
• You are probably monitoring every 5 minutes
• You are probably rolling up the data (so your
  historical data loses its value as it degrades
  from 5 minute intervals to 15 minute intervals to
  60 minute intervals etc)
• You probably archive your data (throw it away)
  once it has been rolled up to a point where it is
  no longer useful.

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• The Risk in monitoring only your uplinks and
  wan
• You cant manage what you dont measure. If 90
  of the network is unmeasured, you cannot
  proactively manage it.
• This forces the end users to alert the I.T
  Department to network issues.
• Since there is no base line, the I.T Department
  do not know what normal network behavior looks
  like, and therefore cannot judge if something is
  broken, unusual, commonly repeating or a one off
  situation.
• If you only monitor every 5 minutes, you have to
  wait a long time for your monitoring tool to
  notice the problem. (The users will tell you if
  there is a problem before the monitoring-tool
  can)
• Trouble shooting becomes very difficult when the
  IT Department have no record or current data, on
  how the network normally behaves and is
  behaving.
• Capacity planning is impossible because you are
  not monitoring all the capacity you have!

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• Statseeker the solution
• We monitor all 150,000 of your interfaces. Every
  interface, on every device in every site
• We use only one server (no remote data
  collectors, no remote pollers)
• We monitor the entire network every 60 seconds.
• We never roll up the data. We keep the data in
  its original granularity indefinitely.
• This means that Statseekers base line grows in
  value when all other products reduce the value of
  the base line by averaging up the data.
• NO OTHER VENDOR CAN DO THIS

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• Statseeker features
• Statseeker collects snmp data on 100 of the
  network interfaces, to show you
• Whats down
• Whats slow
• Whats congested
• Whats dropping packets
• Whats running errors
• Whats exceeding thresholds
• Where capacity is being wasted
• Wheres the most unreliable part of the network
• Network availability from the users perspective
• Network availability from a comprehensive
  perspective
• What is running out of memory.
• What is running out of CPU.
• What is running too hot
• Which printers are running out of toner
• Which servers are running out of hard disk space
• Netflow data collection
• NOTE STATSEEKER IS NOT SHOWING YOU THIS ON JUST
  THE WAN (LIKE ALL OTHER NETOWRK MANAGEMENT
  TOOLS). STATSEEKER IS COMPREHENSIVELY SHOWING
  YOU THE ABSOLUTED PERFORMANCE DATA OF THE ENTIRE
  NETWORK (every interface, on every device, in
  every site, every minute)

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• Statseeker money saving reports
• Unused Ports Report.
• This report shows you where you have too much
  capacity. California State University have used
  this report to save over 30 million dollars in 4
  years, and reported this in Network World
  Magazine.
• http//www.networkworld.com/news/2009/043009-wirel
  ess-ethernet-cable.html?page2
• SLA Availability Report
• This report shows you the most unreliable parts
  of the network and confirms that SLA have been
  met.
• Before Statseeker, most customers generate these
  reports by hand, sometimes taking as long as 15
  working days a month to generate. Statseeker
  provides this report in 5 seconds!
• Historical/Management Reports
• These reports identify network bottlenecks and
  also show where you have high bandwidtch
  infrastructure in the wrong places. This allows
  you re-allocate your resources so your highest
  performing infrastructure is allocated to the
  highest demand areas on the network.
• Real time trouble shooting Reports
• These reports show you anything you want to know
  about the network in less than 5 seconds. This
  makes it possible for the trouble shooters to see
  the past and present performance of the network,
  in real time.
• Netflow data
• While Statseeker specialises in SNMP data
  collection for the entire network, we also
  include Netflow and SFlow data collection as part
  of the license. This saves you having to
  purchase expensive netflow data collectors (often
  between 20k and 70k each!)

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• Network Baseline.
• Every interface on the entire network has its
  performance recorded, and is accessible within 5
  seconds. Statseeker is the only vendor to keep
  this data in its original granularity (meaning
  the data never loses its value).

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• Unused Ports Report.
• This report shows where you can reduce the size
  or number of your switches. It identifies areas
  where you have surplus capacity that can be
  retired or re-allocated.

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Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

• SLA Management Report.
• Identifies the SLA performance of the network,
  inside and outside office hours. Many customers
  used to do this by hand (manually) before
  Statseeker. Statseeker requires 5 seconds to
  generate these reports.