Splunk for Network Management
The old way: Many network issues go undetected.
Traditional network monitoring tools rely on SNMP traps and configuration data to alert on network problems. They ignore errors and warning buried in logs because of the overwhelming volume of raw data. Administrators rarely look at logs except in reaction to severe network availability incidents. IT data is rarely centralized, and even where a central syslog server is in place problem analysis proceeds slowly because of the effort and time required to write and run scripts against raw log files.
The new way: IT Search provides a holistic view.
Splunk indexes and lets you search across all IT data generated by your network devices — syslog alongside SNMP traps and configuration data. It lets you navigate from symptoms to root cause. You can find early warning signs and save and schedule searches to be alerted in the future — before users and services are impacted.
Change Management
Splunk captures and indexes filesystem changes, database audit logs and actual configuration files and database records alongside configuration policy, change tickets, error events and other IT data for contextualized view of change.