Transcript NetPolicy 2.1

Allot Communications
Empowering Networks for Business
NetAccountant Reporter
Presenter:
Email:
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www.allot.com
The Need
IP networks become critical to businesses
Enterprise network managers and ISP customers seek
information on bandwidth usage:
Who is using what (application)?
How much is being used?
When do peaks occur?
Which is the most used applications?
Who is the busiest customer (client)?
Which is the busiest server?
Report data is used for
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Troubleshooting network problems
Capacity planning
Control costs
Security Audit
The Solution:
NetAccountant Reporter
View bandwidth consumption by users and
applications:
Find the applications used by the busiest PC's in the
network -Find the PC's activating the busiest protocols
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Use the NetAccountant to collect all session
statistics and save it in a database
Use the NetAccountant Reporter to view IP
session statistics with advanced graphical
tools
NetEnforcer & NetAccountant
Reporter in a Network
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Business
Customer
(Gold)
Business
Customer
(Silver)
Switch
Residential
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Router
NetEnforcer
CCM
Cache,
Billing FTP, Email
Network Center
Use NetAccountant Reporter
to Get:
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A comprehensive view of network activity
Customized reports on-the-fly using third-party
tools such as Crystal Reports
WAN link utilization by server, client, policy (VC/
Pipe) and service (protocol)
Employee usage of the Internet, including busiest
users, servers and applications
Abuse (potential security holes) patterns
Manage the appropriate mix of “fun” and
“business” traffic
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Features
Collect all session statistics from
a NetEnforcer
Display data by: total amount
of traffic, or traffic-rate (total
traffic divided by total time)
Provide details on WAN link
utilization and network
performance
Provide comprehensive view of
network activity
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Describe employee usage of
the Internet, including busiest
users, servers and applications
Enable network managers to
create advanced usage reports,
such as what application is
used by the most active host
Basic Report Definition
Select:
Pipe
VC
Service
Client
Server
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Advanced Report Definition
Drilling down on the
results of the Basic
reports, based on:
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Pipes – VC’s, Services,
Clients, Servers
VC’s – Pipes, Services,
Clients, Servers
Services – Pipes, VC’s,
Clients, Servers
Clients – Pipes, VC’s,
Services, Servers
Servers – Pipes, VC’s,
Services, Clients
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Benefits to Customer
Analyze network performance
Plan future capacity by analyzing network/application
usage and load distribution
Troubleshoot network problems
Find usage patterns
Who is getting most of the bandwidth
What applications are most “wasteful”
Who is chocking the most critical network resource (WAN link)
Manage the appropriate mix of “fun” and “business” traffic
Provide customers and management with detailed and
drill-down reports
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Find the server that is flooding the net with heavy traffic
Sample Report:
Hourly Traffic by Policies
View a day, hour by hour
The selected policies (VC’s
or Pipes) are color coded
Here you can see that on
the Inbound, on January
1, 2002 between 4am and
9am iMesh (Peer to Peer
VC) was very active –
almost 20KBytes
consumption per hour
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Sample Report:
Total Traffic by Policy (VC or Pipe)
View a day, hour by hour
The selected policies (VC’s
or Pipes) are color coded
Here you can see that the
total traffic, on January 3,
2002 between 9am and
midnight Exchange and
HTTP-Authenticated were
the most active VC’s
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Sample Report:
View Client Total Traffic
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View a month, day by day
(only the first 14 days
have data)
The selected Clients are
color coded
Here you can see that, on
the selected dates, one
client (x.x.x.3) is much
more active than the other
(x.x.x.202)
Total traffic readings are
available
Sample Advanced Report:
Servers on Policies (VC’s or Pipes)
View a day, hour by hour
The selected servers on
specific VC’s or Pipes are
color coded
Here you can see that the
total traffic, on a selected
date, per server (for
example, x.x.x.27 is the
most active between
11am and 1pm)
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Sample Advanced Report:
Services on Policies (VC’s or Pipes)
View a month, day by day
(only the first 14 days
have data)
The selected services are
color coded
Here you can see that
HTTP is the most active
service
Total traffic readings are
available
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View Report Window
Toolbar
Group tree
display area
Report
display area
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Sample Graph Report
You can select an entry in
the group tree, such as an
hour, day or month, to
jump to that point in the
report
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Whole Range Reports
Depict aggregated data
for an entire date range in
a single pie chart
Data for the entire range
covered by the report is a
single time period, rather
than breaking it down into
smaller time units, such as
hours, days or months
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(e.g., if you specify a whole
range report that spans 3
days, the data in the report
will be totaled for the 3-day
period)
Sample Tabular Reports
Last Page
The header rows for hourly, daily and monthly totals in a
Tabular report are distinct.
This makes it easier to distinguish between corresponding
subtotals in the report.
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Import NetEnforcer Data
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User can import data from a NetEnforcer using
a Manual or Scheduled Import – in both cases the period
covered is 93 days (3 months)
Scheduled Import –
Use the Windows Wizard
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Export
CSV, PDF, Excel, Access,
HTML, my sql, XML
Write in the Destination
a disk file or an email
recipient
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For example, when selecting
Microsoft Mail (MAPI) to
export data via email, an
email window is displayed
where you enter your email
recipient details and click
Send. The email application
to be used must be open
when the export operation
is performed
Backup and Restore
Disaster recovery: protect your
data
Archive and protect your old
data from database overwriting
In Scheduled Mode, older data
(than 93 days) will be deleted
automatically
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Why NetAccountant Reporter?
Understand network usage patterns
View bandwidth consumption by users and
applications
Identify all active applications
Control costs (e.g., limit bandwidth)
Analyze problems (peaks, etc.)
Use data to limit “abusive” hosts or applications
Use data for capacity planning
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Policy Based Networking - a
Complete Solution
Policy and SLA Management
Define policies
NetPolicy 2.x
Policies >> network actions
User directory/CCB management
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Monitoring and Accounting
Policy monitoring
User accounting and billing
Event management
Capacity planning
Service management
Enforcement
Shaping and conditioning
URL Filtering
QoS tagging (gateway)
Server balancing
Cache enforcement
Preventing DoS attacks
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