Best Practices in Network Monitoring System

A large part of the picture, in addition to monitoring the application data and general network conditions, is the infrastructure supporting the system.Administrators can enhance their visibility and awareness of underlying resources by seeking a solution that will provide several key features in monitoring the network and proactively managing traffic.

The underlying components that support user applications should be monitored to ensure proper application delivery. These devices serve as the foundation of the entire delivery process and must be running at optimal efficiency to maximize overall service delivery.

Base lining gives IT a long-term view and a starting point to assess when performance is higher or lower than expected. This is an often overlooked capability that can provide valuable insight into behavior over extended periods of time. In particular, observing activity over time windows greater than six months can yield slowly degrading performance that might otherwise be missed.

The user experience isn’t for end users alone. IT should have a single dashboard through which network activities can be monitored and managed, providing an at-a-glance problem identification. This perspective can be the starting point of any potential troubleshooting that may be required.

Video performance is increasingly important as telepresence calls replace face-to-face meetings. Network administrators should validate unified communications performance, including VoIP analysis, to ensure satisfied users. Of particular importance is to understand how the significantly higher utilization in conjunction with high levels of network priority may impact all applications and services operating on the infrastructure.
Resources can be used more efficiently if monitoring activities are conducted entirely by the network probe, which reduces overhead. Therefore, seek those solutions which perform the majority of their processing locally at the probe.