Tag: datacenter-management

Performance tuning of NetFlow Analyzer Professional / Professional Plus Edition Made easy!.

In the older version of NetFlow Analyzer if the product faces performance related issue, tuning the product took long time and the downtime of the product was about 15 to 20 minutes by following the steps mentioned here . In the Newer version of NetFlow Analyzer version 9.5 build 9500, this tuning steps is made easy. Now you can tune the product in the User Interface.

NetFlow Sampling on Cisco 6500 & 7600 series device

Both Cisco 6500 & 7600 serve as Core devices on a network to distribute large amount of traffic. The high volume of packets and packet rates of traffic on some device links which leads to more utilization of CPU and memory for performing traffic analysis in this scenario

ITAM – a key step in reducing operations costs

Economy is not in your control, your organization’s operation costs are! The economy curve isn’t exactly going north and it is important for you, as an asset manager, to contribute for reducing operations cost. In a recent article by Gartner titled “10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Costs by as Much as 25 Percent”, one of the key steps mentioned was IT Asset Management (ITAM). “ITAM by itself doesn’t reduce I&O costs; however, it is a very effective tool to identify and assess cost reduction opportunities.” IT Asset management is not only a business practice of discovering and monitoring the assets, it encapsulates much more than that – cost monitoring, history, contracts management, notifications, software asset and license management, to name a few