1. Application Is Slow, Is It Network?

For a slow application, network is “guilty” until proven innocent. Is it really network?

NetBrain’s 3-step visual troubleshooting answers this challenge. It will:

• Map out slow applications instantly
• Diagnose the slowness from the map
• Discover relevant network changes

The end result is much less finger-pointing and as much as 40% reduction in troubleshooting time.

Visual Network Troubleshooting Shortens MTTR by 40%

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2. Is Your WAN Dropping Packets?

You have looked everywhere in your network searching for the cause of slowness and nothing turned out. What about your WAN service providers? Did they deliver?

NetBrain enables you to measure the WAN performance on-the-fly, and visualize what’s actually been delivered, leveraging Cisco’s IPSLA technology and NetBrain’s diagnostic monitoring capabilities.

Measure Network Performance with IPSLA

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3. Which Routes Are Missing?

Any missing routes in your network can lead to major outages - how do you make sure this is not happening to you after the changes you are about to make?

NetBrain’s automated routing verification provides such assurance. First, the recurring benchmark process establishes baselines of network routing. After any network change, benchmark process will collect another set of routing tables and compute any changes in real-time. This enables you to catch any routing anomalies during the change window, not Monday morning when user traffic is hitting the network.

Automated Routing Verification Prevents Outages

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4. Is QoS Configured Properly in Your Network?

Normally you discover mis-configuration by sorting through thousands of lines of configuration files inside the CLI. This takes a lot of time and expertise – after all, it is manual.

NetBrain’s design reader simplifies the task drastically. The tool will decode configuration files using a set of customizable technology filters, and present only the relevant portion of the configuration. Mis-configuration is easy to spot when decoded configuration is compared against samples, which is also included with the tool.

Use Design Reader to Analyze Network Design On-the-fly

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5. Why is the VoIP Quality Unstable?

Your network is fine for data applications, but voice or video over IP seems always having sporadic problems. Worst of all, every time you are looking at the problem, everything seems normal.

Welcome to real-time performance troubleshooting – challenges introduced by demanding voice and video traffic.

NetBrain’s visual troubleshooting environment integrates a set of technology spanning from data collection to data analysis to data visualization – the end result is that you can analyze the performance problem while it is happening.

Catch the Transient Network Problem

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6. Where is the Network Diagram?

Your mission-critical application is down. But you can’t find any network diagrams for it - What do you do?

Most of the time, you have to frantically draw one by hand in the middle of the emergency…

Technology advancements now allow you to create network diagram automatically the moment you need it…

Automate Network Diagrams On-Demand

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7. Are Your Network Diagrams Updated?

Network is constantly evolving. So should your pile of network diagrams…

The problem is you can’t afford the kind of man-hours required to update them, even though time and time again, inaccurate documents have led to prolonged troubleshooting.

Consider using dynamic network diagrams that update themselves automatically based on live network status.

Dynamic Diagrams Update Themselves with Network Changes

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8. What’s In Your Data Center?

Half of the battle in managing an ever-changing data center is knowing what you have inside one.

Let NetBrain’s discovery and documentation engine do the hard work for you. The result is an accurate documentation package that includes Visio diagrams, Word documents and Excel inventory.

Discover and Document Data Centers Automatically

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9. Where Are the Servers Plugged in?

With thousands of servers in your network, how do you keep them documented so that when a problem occurs, you are troubleshooting, not wasting time figuring out where they are?

NetBrain automates this task completely – from collecting data to building diagrams to keep everything updated.

Document the Connectivity of End Systems Automatically

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10. What’s Changed in Your Network?

75% of network outages are caused by network change. When there is a problem, the first thing you want to know is what’s changed since the last known good state.

With NetBrain, your network will be benchmarked periodically. During troubleshooting, a map-driven toolset will compute and illustrate any changes in your network between now and before.

Beyond network configuration, the analysis also covers changes in routing, traffic paths and network topology.

Historical Analysis Speeds Up Outage Resolution

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