Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

1. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker

2. 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.

3. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker • The Problem – If you have 50,000 interfaces and you are using traditional network monitoring tools…… • You are probably monitoring the uplinks and a wan links. • So you actively monitor perhaps 1000 interfaces, and you leave the remaining 39,000 interfaces (97% 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.

4. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker • The Risk – in monitoring only your uplinks and wan… • You cant manage what you don’t measure. If 97% of the network is unmeasured, you cannot proactively manage it. • Proactively monitoring the wan links and uplinks, is not helpful if the problem is outside the wan or outside the uplinks. • 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. (60 second polling is refreshingly fast if you are used to 5 minute polling). • 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!

5. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker • Statseeker – the solution • We monitor all 50,000 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. • Thus Statseeker provides an “Industrial Strength Baseline which grows in value as the baseline grows. • NO OTHER VENDOR CAN DO THIS – Statseeker is unique in monitoring the entire network (all 50,000 interfaces) from a single server, every minute, while never rolling up the data.

6. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker • Statseeker – features Statseeker collects snmp data on 100% of the network interfaces, to show you: • 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)

7. 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-wireless-ethernet-cable.html?page=2 • 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!)

8. 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).

9. Why Our Customers Decide to Own Statseeker • Unused Ports Report. This report shows where you can reduce the size of your switches. It identifies areas where you have surplus capacity that can be retired or re-allocated. For most customers, this report identifies more cost savings than Statseeker costs (effectively cost justifying Statseeker from a single report).

10. 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.