Network Management

Poor Performance and Limited Visibility

As today’s distributed networks continue to grow in both scope and complexity, you are being asked to do more with less resources. You need to continue to meet throughput demand. You need to optimize network efficiency. You need to simplify management and improve visibility. And you need to accomplish it all quickly and cost-effectively.

How are you managing access to and analysis of your network data today? Can you monitor your entire network from one place to find faults, configuration issues and performance problems? Can you get the detailed visibility and analysis you need to troubleshoot issues, meet compliance requirements and investigate security threats? Are you using your logs for troubleshooting and monitoring? Do you use them for post-incident analysis?

Complete Visibility and Analysis across All Your Network Data

With Splunk, users can now index, search and analyze all their IT data from a single location in real time. You can collect, search and report on all your network data from one place, enabling you to quickly detect and rapidly resolve network issues. Monitor all your data – network, OS and applications, work across diverse devices in an integrated way, and find issues before your customers do.

  • Fault Management: Detect and resolve network issues quickly. Search and analyze all your Network and IT data from one place in real time.
  • Configuration Management: Monitor all your configuration files from one location. Report on changes across your entire infrastructure.
  • Accounting Management: Provide reports on network usage. Collect and report on accounting data for all your network devices.
  • Performance Management: See performance trends and avoid bottlenecks. Trigger alerts based on your network data – logs, configurations, flows, traps and metrics.
  • Security Management: Investigate security incidents in record time. Investigate and respond to incidents faster and more completely by being able to analyze all your security-relevant data from one place.

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Splunk Benefits

  • Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by troubleshooting all network infrastructure data from one place.
  • Become more proactive by monitoring all your network data for early warning signs across your entire IT infrastructure.
  • Reduce escalations by providing the NOC with self-service, controlled, real time access to data from all your network devices.
  • Diagnose problems 60-80% faster by searching and analyzing all your network infrastructure data without needing to request data from Network Engineers.
  • Eliminate 90% of escalations by providing tier 1 staff with the ability to diagnose routine issues.

Solution Areas

Network Management Next Steps

Network Management Using Splunk

Point all of your network devices' syslog to Splunk - from routers to firewalls and VoIP and wireless infrastructure to DHCP lease events. Capture network configurations and changes. Connect to event APIs like OPSEC LEA. Receive SNMP traps. Even capture network traffic via PCAP, TCPdump and Netflow. Splunk will index them all in real time.
Your senior network engineers will use Splunk to troubleshoot escalated problems. Over time, they'll save searches for re-use by tier 1 NOC staff to investigate routine issues, such as blocked connections.
Network engineers with different expertise can enrich the data with their knowledge of the significance of specific events, identity of network elements, and fields in the data.
As Splunk is used for troubleshooting, your team will identify events and patterns that are indicators of routine problems, such as misconfigured routers, neighbor changes, and will turn searches for these events into proactive alerts.
Network operations managers can set up reports and dashboards on network activity and performance to assist in service level management. Over time, network engineers develop the habit of proactively reviewing network activity in Splunk and looking for patterns and anomalies - in this way you'll often discover network problems before they impact quality of service.