Monitoring and Managing

  • Know your network is doing well.
  • Understand the trends in your network performance.
  • Identify your bottlenecks and propose solutions.
  • Proact – Don’t react.

Phases of optimizations and the tools

  1. Create a baseline – Netflow, NBAR, IP SLA
  2. Optimize Network – QoS, AutoQoS VoIP, AutoQoS Enterprise
  3. Measure / Adjust – Netflow, NBAR, IP SLA, Syslog
  4. Deploy Apps – Netflow, NBAR

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