Saturday, January 7, 2012

Performance monitoring

Determining the current utilization of the network, the protocols in use, the errors occurring, the applications executing, and the users on the network is crucial to understanding if the network is functioning properly or if such problems as insufficient capacity exist. Monitoring performance can be used over short time periods to troubleshoot problems or it can be used over long time periods to determine traffic profiles and optimize the configuration and topology of the network.

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