Take a "60 Second Product Tour"
What is causing poor application performance? Is it the network? The server? The application? A rogue application or user hogging all the bandwidth? And when you make a change — WAN optimization, application acceleration, MPLS migration, server consolidation, firewall upgrade — how do you choose the right product or service? Can you show that it really makes a difference? Can you prove it was worth it?
Eliminate Application Performance Problems
Network Physics NetSensory Enterprise helps you eliminate application response time problems and ensure the performance, security, and availability of your application delivery infrastructure without the management burden of SNMP, RMON2, agents, or synthetic transactions. It operates across the most complex networks — any combination of LAN, WAN, VPN, MPLS, Internet, and third-party — to deliver detailed real-time and historical information about performance, utilization, route quality, ISP performance, and end-user experience through a flexible interface designed to simplify five fundamental management tasks:
Audit — Assess your application infrastructure. What's really on your network? Who's talking to whom? Understand the structure of your network and prepare for network transitions.
Baseline — Spot trends and establish what's normal and what's not: latency, load, response time, chattiness, and more--over 60 metrics. Get a handle on what to expect from branch offices, data centers, server clusters, partners, customers, and other business resources.
Troubleshoot — Isolate application response time issues: where's the problem, what applications are affected, which users, what's the business impact? Drill down to the problem source: server, network, application, provider, hop.
Secure — Find the stuff that's not supposed to be there: worms, spambots, malware, anomalous file transfers, etc. Track down rogue traffic and bandwidth hogs, reclaim bandwidth capacity.
Optimize — Manage network transitions before and after: WAN & server optimization, application acceleration, MPLS migration, server consolidation, firewall upgrade. Measure the improvement and prove that it was worth it.
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Manage Across Complex Networks
The NetSensory Enterprise lets you organize network data into Business Groups (sets of IP addresses and/or AS numbers) and Applications (combinations of ports, IP addresses, and/or URLs). The NetSensory Enterprise OS then uses these Group and Applications to automatically aggregate, correlate, generate alerts on, and display that data in the context of major business entities and the links and traffic between them, including branch offices, departments, buildings, users, server clusters, business applications, and end-to-end business services. The business impact of any problem is immediately apparent, so you can rapidly prioritize your troubleshooting efforts.
NetSensory Enterprise monitors actual network flows — all your traffic, all the time. It records and stores over 60 network metrics: response time (based on the industry's first real-time turn-tracking for persistent connections), utilization, and congestion measurements, from TCP/IP header information; route quality, AS, and ISP performance information from BGP, traceroute, and whois; and even packet-level data from scheduled packet captures. This rich and unified data view enables you to immediately discern the source of a problem as server, application, or network, so you can put the right team on it right away. No more fingerpointing; no more "the network is slow" even when it isn't!
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Pinpointing Hard-to-Find Problems
The NetSensory Enterprise Problem Management Dashboard automatically baselines network behavior for all your Business Groups from actual traffic and alerts you to anomalous behavior. No programming is necessary, and NetSensory's behavior-based alerting even catches many Day-Zero security issues. Network managers may add their own alerts to the Dashboard to monitor critical aspects of their network connectivity. Once the Dashboard has identified a problem, NetSensory Enterprise allows managers to organize, navigate through, and analyze it using an extensive set of tables, charts, and topological displays, including a unique Group Service Topology that lets you visualize and explore the flow of application services between business entities.
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NetSensory Insights: Questions. Answers. Now.
With NetSensory Insights, you can use this in-depth information to solve network problems as fast as you can move your mouse. Insights package NetSensory charts, tables, topology maps, and other tools into step-by-step action guides that encapsulate the best practices for common network tasks. Insights free high-level engineers for critical initiatives and vastly improve the productivity of everyone on the IT team. And Network Physics' growing network of reseller partners can deliver customized Insights in as little as a day!
Benefits
Find and fix application response time problems
- Defend against "the network is slow" claims end to end across WAN, LAN, Internet, BGP, VPN, partner & customer networks, etc.
- Immediately identify which applications are affected, which users, and the business impact
- Easy drill-down to problem source: server, application, network, ISP, branch office, etc.
Audit, baseline, troubleshoot, secure, and optimize
- Ensure the performance, security, and availability of your entire application infrastructure
- Baseline and validate network changes:WAN/application acceleration, MPLS migration, server consolidation, firewall upgrade, etc.
- Integrates easily with other management solutions
Easy to install, easy to use, immediate results
- No agents, no SNMP, no synthetic transactions, no network impact
- Unique NetSensory Insights: step-by-step action guides encapsulate best-practices for critical management tasks
- Dashboard automatically baselines performance and utilization, behavior-based alerting finds Day-Zero problems
Features
NetSensory Insights
- Point-and-click action guides for common management tasks
- Get the answer as fast as you can move the mouse
- Customized Insights available from your Network Physics reseller
- Easy integration with alerts for faster NOC response
Problem Management Dashboard
- Automatically baselines, sets thresholds, and correlates
- Localizes problems to server, network, or client
- Organizes alerts by business groups affected
- Forwards alarms to enterprise fault managers
Application Performance Troubleshooting
- Breaks down end-to-end response time to server, connection, network, retransmission, and round trip time components
- Industry's first real-time turn-tracking for accurate minute-by-minute metrics on enterprise applications using persistent connections.
- Define applications by port, server, and/or URL to handle ephemeral ports (e.g., Exchange) and web-enabled apps
- Track and compare application usage trends over time
Planning & SLA Analysis
- Easily discover and visualize application service flows between business groups
- Stores and intelligently condenses metrics via year-long-plus storage algorithms
- Create customized SLA thresholds based on any combination of metrics
NetSensory Enterprise is available on the NP-500. NP-2000, and NP-3000 appliances.
| Packets/second |
Approx. bandwidth* |
Approx. data storage** |
| NP-500 12,000s |
20 Mbps |
1-minute averages for 3-7 days;
1-day averages for up to a year |
| NP-2000 120,000 pps |
750 Mbps |
1-minute averages for 3-7 days;
1-day averages for up to a year |
| NP-3000 150,000 pps |
900 Mbps |
1-minute averages for 1-2 weeks;
1-day averages for up to a year |
* Estimate, depends on average packet size
** Estimated, depends on configuration
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