Why Our Customers Decide to Own
Statseeker
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• The Problem
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All other network management tools use traditional monitoring techniques (such as general
purpose databases)
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This means they do not elegantly scale
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This forces customers to decide what part of the network they will monitor and what part of
the network they will leave un-monitored.
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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.
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• The Problem – If you have 150,000 interfaces
and you are using traditional network
monitoring tools……
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You are probably monitoring the uplinks and a wan links.
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So you actively monitor perhaps 2000 interfaces, and you leave the remaining 148000
interfaces (98% OF THE NETWORK) with no monitoring at all
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You are probably monitoring every 5 minutes
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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)
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You probably archive your data (throw it away) once it has been rolled up to a point where it
is no longer useful.
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• The Risk – in monitoring only your uplinks
and wan…
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You cant manage what you don’t measure. If 90% of the network is unmeasured, you cannot
proactively manage it.
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This forces the end users to alert the I.T Department to network issues.
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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.
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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)
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Trouble shooting becomes very difficult when the IT Department have no record or current
data, on how the network normally behaves and ‘is’ behaving.
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Capacity planning is impossible – because you are not monitoring all the capacity you have!
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• Statseeker – the solution
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We monitor all 150,000 of your interfaces. Every interface, on every device in every site
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We use only one server (no remote data collectors, no remote pollers)
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We monitor the entire network – every 60 seconds.
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We never roll up the data. We keep the data in its original granularity indefinitely.
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This means that Statseeker’s 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
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• Statseeker – features
Statseeker collects snmp data on 100% of the network interfaces, to show you:
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What’s down
What’s slow
What’s congested
What’s dropping packets
What’s running errors
What’s exceeding thresholds
Where capacity is being wasted
Where’s the most unreliable part of the network
Network availability from the user’s 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)
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• Statseeker – money saving reports
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Unused Ports Report.
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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-wireless-ethernet-cable.html?page=2
SLA Availability Report
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This report shows you the most unreliable parts of the network and confirms that SLA have been met.
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Historical/Management Reports
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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
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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!
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
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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!)
Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker
• Network Baseline.
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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).
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.
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.