Complete network visibility and control
Traffic Sentinel™ is the first of a new class of performance management tools specifically designed to meet the challenge of convergence. Traffic Sentinel makes use of the multi-vendor sFlow standard to provide scalable, real-time visibility across the entire networked infrastructure, delivering the integrated picture of network, storage, server and communications performance needed to ensure optimal service delivery in a converged infrastructure.
- Manage network, server, storage and communications performance from a single "pane of glass"
- Identify network, computing and storage hot spots
- Monitor performance of scale-out storage, compute and switch clusters
- Track network, server and application dependencies
- Eliminate congestion and ensure quality of service
- Identify underutilized resources and improve efficiency
- Account for usage
Traffic Sentinel makes use of embedded instrumentation within switches, routers and servers. The breakthrough technology, sFlow®, provides the richest information, greatest scalability and is supported by the largest number of vendors (see sFlow Capable Devices). However, Traffic Sentinel also accepts IPFIX) and a number of proprietary monitoring technologies, including: Cisco NetFlow, Juniper J-Flow, Hewlett-Packard Extended RMON) and Riverstone LFAP. The use of embedded switch and router monitoring eliminates the need for probes, providing a cost effective way of providing detailed, network-wide coverage.
View the product walkthrough to see some examples of the ways in which continuous site-wide traffic monitoring can change the way you manage your network.
sFlowTrend™ is a free, graphical, sFlow collector, plotting top talkers and interface counters over time. sFlow is a popular, industry standard, technology for monitoring traffic in networks. Many network devices are capable of generating sFlow and can be monitored using sFlowTrend.
sFlowTrend-Pro™ extends the free version of sFlowTrend, adding storage of historical data, and the ability to monitor multiple network switches at once.
Virtual Probe is free software that monitors network activity in VMWare® and Xen® virtual servers; exporting sFlow data.
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