Packeteer's unique monitoring technology delivers a truly accurate picture of your network and applications—the only way to proactively manage WAN resources.

Know What's on Your Network:

Without a truly accurate picture of WAN traffic, you can't proactively track, troubleshoot or manage network resources. Packeteer's comprehensive monitoring toolset transcends basic application identification to transparently monitor performance of each application—by link, application or users—without the need for agents.

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With Packeteer's deep Layer 7 Plus monitoring, gain true visibility into what's running on your network so you can proactively manage WAN resources.

Quickly determine if:

Is it the network or the application?
What happened?
Who did it?

. . . and then fix it.

Get a Handle on Network Performance:

Like a network probe—only better. Packeteer provides the statistics used to track network utilization and availability, including dozens of key stats.

Track on a per PVC basis—measuring frames, bytes, frames errors, efficiency and more.
Follow top talkers/listeners—with per flow detail for all traffic across the network.
Add peak utilization rates and more granular, one-minute utilization data.
Find the cause of disruption otherwise lost to long-sample averages.

Example:

Help desk call to the network administrator—trouble with SAP® application. Check the network delay—ok. Server delay is way up—spike in connection attempts on one of the servers, which is not responding well. Looks like a server issue. Issue addressed and resolved—it's not the network.

Dig Application Deep:

Packeteer moves beyond the standard network view of traffic to leverage our Layer 7 Plus technologies to measure utilization and performance of each application on your network. Dig detail deep with an application view of per application utilization (including peaks and averages), top talkers/listeners, connections, bytes and more—way beyond other networking devices.

Monitor Application Performance and SLAs:

Packeteer's response time technology passively monitors the actual performance of applications—end to end. With Packeteer's flow-based view, peer inside application connections to measure network delay, server delay, total transaction delay as well as application round trip times and congestion metrics. Track actual performance of your most important applications.

Take a Closer Look:

Get the level of detail you need for diagnostics, troubleshooting and forensics. For example, TCP Health compares the number of TCP connections that were started, aborted, ignored and/or refused by the server during the specified time period. Find out if the server infrastructure is adequately scaling, as well as identify infected hosts that are subsequently propagating using high connection levels.

Quickly identify and diagnose network issues:

Audit utilization and performance links, users or applications.
Track application response times, isolate performance issues and identify server- or network-related issues.
Monitor service-level agreements for critical applications or links.
Access performance diagnostics that include connection profiling and server responses (TCP Health), traffic forensic history and more.

Capture Targeted Traffic:

With PacketCapture, capture targeted traffic in a tcpdump format for analysis with your Etherpeek, Ethereal or other packet decoding software. By targeting specific traffic types, no more looking for a needle in the haystack.

Get Granular with Per Flow Information:

Per flow records provide the greatest level of granularity. That's why Packeteer leverages the NetFlow paradigm of flow records, adding our Layer 7 Plus (and Layer 3 and 4) application identification as well as per flow performance statistics to each record. This per flow record of IP and application information provides an excellent dataset to demonstrate compliance and investigate issues.