Netsol IPMeter provides IP Traffic Analysis for enterprises and service providers. IPMeter enables network administrators to profile and analyze bandwidth usage by servers, users, protocols and applications. IPMeter collects traffic usage data from Cisco® Netflow enabled routers or from a built-in Sniffer. Further, it correlates traffic usage with applications, hosts, departments, user groups and locations.
IPMeter provides web based graphical, real time and historical reports with excellent drill down capabilities. These analytics allow administrators to determine top traffic generating hosts and understand the impact of applications on network bandwidth and vice versa. IPMeter helps provide data for capacity planning, root cause analysis for link utilization problems and accounting via usage chargeback.
Netsol IPMeter enables IT administrators and Network Managers with data that helps them with faster root cause analysis, better troubleshooting and efficient budgeting. Specifically, IPMeter
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Provides analysis on how applications impact network performance and usage
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Helps analyze and optimize bandwidth costs across the enterprise
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Provides usage data for Bandwidth Chargeback to business units
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Provides analytical data which enables Network Managers to justify capacity planning decisions
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Provides analytics for improved bandwidth capacity planning
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Enables maximization of network utilization and performance
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Helps meet regulatory reporting requirements
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Helps develop Service Level definitions for applications, link availability and performance
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Improve network troubleshooting including identification of bandwidth hungry hosts and applications
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Enables data to validate and justify QoS policies and helps to classify and allocate bandwidth
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Provides visibility into IP traffic patterns
Netsol IPMeter 4.0 provides multiple features and corresponding benefits. These are listed below.
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| Correlates network traffic usage by servers and desktops with departments, locations, applications and protocols |
Enables IT administrators to accurately identify root causes for network congestion or increasing network usage on specific LAN or WAN links. Helps identify bandwidth hungry users or applications. Assists network administrators to formulate QoS and bandwidth chargeback policies based on network usage. |
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| Supports Cisco® Netflow version 5 and 9 |
Enables IT administrators to leverage existing investments made in Cisco® routers. Traffic analysis is based on flows collected by Netflow enabled routers. Provides analysis of QoS policies and impact on bandwidth usage. Enables peering analysis based on Autonomous Number information. |
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| Includes built-in software based Sniffer |
Provides cost effective, alternate means of data collection in non-Cisco® network environments. |
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| Accurately identify hosts in a Microsoft® DHCP environment |
Enables IT administrators to perform effective root cause analysis by correlating network usage data in a Microsoft® enabled DHCP environment. This allows accurate identification of end user desktops or laptops when IP addresses change frequently. |
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| Proactive, policy based monitoring of network usage |
Provides automated, rules based monitoring of traffic usage by specific protocols, applications between locations, departments, etc. Generates email alerts or sends SNMP traps when unusual activity is identified. |
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| Allows monitoring of network usage by custom, proprietary applications |
Enables IT administrators to track effect of custom, proprietary applications including ERP, payroll, sales force automation on WAN links. |
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| Out of the box reports and analytics |
Enables IT administrators to analyze trend in network usage across days, weeks and months. Drill down capabilities allows fine grained analysis including per conversation level details. This data can be used to formulate and track QoS policies, perform capacity planning for bandwidth and charge back bandwidth usage to end users, projects or departments. |
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| Integrates with Netsol SNAPPiMON |
Integration with Netsol SNAPPiMON enables IT administrators to leverage network usage analysis reports along with network, server, application, middleware, business impact monitoring. |
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| Highly Scalable architecture |
Ensures ability to process large amount of traffic data across multiple locations. Ensure minimal network overhead and hardware requirements. |
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| Simplified installation, configuration |
Enables extremely fast deployment and rollout. Ensures IT administrators can experience tangible benefits quickly. |
Netsol IPMeter provides multiple real time and historical reports which allow excellent analysis of traffic usage data including flexible drill down capabilities right up to individual conversation levels. Historical reports can be generated across multiple days, weeks, months or years. Some examples include
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Link Utilization Analysis by protocols, applications and groups
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Analysis of Top N hosts using most bandwidth on a specific link
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Analysis of Top N applications, protocols using bandwidth on a specific link
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Analysis of traffic usage patterns between locations
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Analysis of traffic usage patterns between departments
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List and root cause of policy violations
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Analysis of Top N groups, locations using bandwidth
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Analysis of external or un-identified hosts involved in traffic usage
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And many more
Netsol IPMeter system requirements are listed below. Specific hardware specifications in terms of number of CPUs or amount of RAM are based on actual traffic patterns. Briefly, IPMeter requires the following -
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Operating System – Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP, Red Hat Linux
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Database – Microsoft® SQL 2005 SP2 Standard or Enterprise editions
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Client Browser – Internet Explorer 6.x
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