network performance monitoring at minimal capex

Network Performance Monitoring at Minimal Capex

Some Cisco IOS technologies you can use to create a high performance network

Don Thomas Jacob Technical Marketing Engineer

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The Webinar will discuss:

• Why network performance management • A Network Administrator’s wish list • Some Cisco technologies you can use for network

performance monitoring

And a brief on Cisco Flexible NetFlow • NetFlow Analyzer and Cisco Technologies

Why Network Performance Monitoring

• Network connectivity and business application uptime are the keywords today

• Increasing bandwidth – but more applications and

services in the network

• Save capex – Hold the extra bandwidth or the WAN optimization device you planned

• Business critical applications have to compete with rogue applications in many networks

• Planning for VoIP – Can your current links do it?

A Network Administrator’s Wish List

Manage available Bandwidth?

Need a Capacity Planning Report

Is Peer to Peer apps using bandwidth?

Can the existing link carry Voice

Traffic?

What caused the Bandwidth Spike?

Traffic Analytics

Is the Network Secure?

Network Admin

A Network Admin ’s Wish List

How will the data traffic perform?

• Bandwidth Monitoring - Analyze link usage - Visualize traffic patterns - Real-time traffic reports

• Traffic Analytics

Traffic Source and related

Conversations

Real Time Traffic Graphs

to Forever History

Traffic Destination and related Conversations

Applications and Protocols Used

WHO

• Capacity Planning - Existing link meets demand ? - Increase available Bandwidth ?


WHAT

WHEN WHERE

• Bandwidth Monitoring - Analyze link usage - Visualize traffic patterns - Real-time traffic reports

• Traffic Analytics

Traffic Source and related

Conversations

Real Time Traffic Graphs

to Forever History

Traffic Destination and related Conversations

Applications and Protocols Used

• Capacity Planning - Existing link meets demand ? - Increase available Bandwidth ?


Layer 7 Analysis and Traffic Management

• Analyze Peer to Peer application usage

• Are unwanted applications using well known ports?

• Manage, Block or Shape traffic

• Validate Quality of Service policies


Measure Link Capability for VoIP Traffic

• Switching to VoIP to carry Voice Traffic?

• Can existing link carry the additional traffic?

• Measure performance of VoIP traffic over the link

Current Usage

Available for New Traffic



Link Performance Monitoring

• How is the WAN link performance

• Is your ISP delivering as per the SLA?

• Latency, Jitter, Packet loss, Availability

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Growing number of Security Threats

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Threats

Threats


Growing number of Security Threats

• Is my Network Secure? Are the current firewall rules sufficient?

• Track network anomalies that may have bypasses firewalls

• Is your network under attack? Is there a virus spreading or maybe a DDoS attack?


Cisco Solutions you can leverage on

Cisco’s Flexible NetFlow

• Primary IP Traffic accounting technology

• Reports on Who, What, When and Where of traffic

• Helps understand traffic pattern, applications used, top talkers and much more

What Cisco has to help you

Used for Visualizing Traffic Patterns Helps in - Bandwidth Monitoring - Traffic Analytics - Capacity Planning Less strain on Device CPU, Memory as well as Link Bandwidth

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Source Interface (ifindex)

Protocol

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Source Port

Destination Port

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A brief about Cisco Flexible NetFlow

What is Flexible NetFlow

Cisco Flexible NetFlow

• Uses NetFlow v9 - Allows user defined Key and Non-Key Fields

• Highly flexible flow export options - Customized traffic monitoring

• Ability to monitor a wide range of IP packet information which traditional NetFlow did not have

Some Platforms and IOS with Flexible NetFlow


• Cisco ISR G1 - From 12.4(20)T IOS

• Cisco ISR G2 - All CCO Images

• Cisco 7200 - From 12.2(33)SRE

• Cisco ASR1K - From XE3.1 15.0(1)S

• Cisco CAT 4000 series - SUP Engine 7E

• Cisco CAT 6000 series - SUP 2T Earl8

NetFlow Performance Impact

CPU Utilization

• 10,000 active flows – 7.14 % additional CPU

• 65,000 active flows – 22.98 % additional CPU

Bandwidth Usage Estimate

• Around 2% to 3% additional bandwidth on the NetFlow enabled device


Application

Presentation

Session

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical Data

Network Based Application Recognition - NBAR

Bitorrent, eDonkey, FTP, Kazaa, Skype, SIP


Network Based Application Recognition - NBAR

• Layer 7 traffic analytics

• Intelligent Application Categorization

• Detect Peer to Peer and dynamic port using applications

• Can work with CBQoS for custom traffic management


FTP

VoIP

Peer to Peer

Web

Class Based Quality of Service - CBQoS


Internet Link

Web

FTP

Class Based Quality of Service - CBQoS

• Prioritize, limit, block or shape IP traffic

• Drop unwanted traffic – Peer to Peer, IM, etc

• Ensure delivery of business critical applications


Cisco IPSLA – IP Service Level Agreement

• Monitor performance – packets reach destination, link performance, availability ?

• RTT, latency, jitter, packet loss, etc

• Verify if the ISP is delivering as promised

• Can the link can deliver your data to the destination

• Can the link carry VoIP traffic ?


Cisco NetFlow For Security Analytics

• Valuable information about IP traffic patterns

• Identify network anomalies, DDoS attacks, spread of malware or viruses

• Details of attack – Offender, Target, Path…

• Helps mitigate attacks that surpasses firewalls and IDS


NetFlow Analyzer and Cisco

NetFlow Analyzer leverages on Cisco

• Uses NetFlow data for bandwidth and traffic analysis.

• Visualize traffic pattern with real time graphs.

• Traffic analytics with application and conversation report.

• Trend analysis for Capacity Planning.

Comprehensive understanding of the Network using Cisco NetFlow


• Uses NetFlow data for bandwidth and traffic analysis.

• Visualize traffic pattern with real time graphs.

• Traffic analytics with application and conversation report.

• Trend analysis for Capacity Planning.


NBAR – Network Based Application Recognition


• Deep packet – Layer 7 Traffic Analysis

• NBAR reporting via SNMP as well as Flexible NetFlow

• Identify hosts involved in Peer to Peer Traffic

NBAR reporting via Flexible NetFlow


NBAR reporting via SNMP


Class-Based QoS reporting


• Validate QoS polices

• Monitor Class based pre and post policy traffic usage Class based drops Class based queuing

• Reports for each Match Statement

Class-Based QoS reporting


Cisco IPSLA – VoIP Monitoring

How NetFlow Analyzer leverages on Cisco

• VoIP performance analysis using Cisco IPSLA

• Reports on : Jitter Latency Packet Loss Mean Opinion Score - MoS

• Compare VoIP reports and Interface level NetFlow reports

• Identify reason for VoIP quality degradation

Cisco IPSLA – VoIP Monitoring


Cisco IPSLA – WAN RTT Reports


• Link performance analysis using Cisco IPSLA

• For data packets, reports on : Jitter and Latency Packet Loss and Round Trip Time Link Availability

• View least performing paths and find which of your links do the worst

• Prevent possible network issues from becoming an outage

Cisco IPSLA – WAN RTT Reports



Flow based security analytics

• Network anomaly detection leveraging on NetFlow data

• Detect anomalies that surpass firewalls and IDS

• Anomaly classification based on Offender, Target, Path and Problem

• Real time threat detection using Continuous Stream Mining Engine


Flow based security analytics

Conclusion

• Throwing more bandwidth does not always improve performance

• Utilize technologies available on your Cisco device

Find bandwidth used by business critical applications

NBAR – A hidden technology with wide uses

Use QoS to the fullest and ensure they work as expected

IPSLA monitoring to measure performance of data and voice

Get a 3rd layer of security beyond firewalls and IDS

• Use a tool that can leverage on all these technologies – ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is one

Questions?

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