The document introduces Riverbed's Network Planning and Configuration Management (NPCM) products which help IT staff deal with challenges of delivering business services. The NPCM products include NetAuditor for policy compliance, NetPlanner for network planning, and NetCollector for network data collection. They improve network efficiency, ease infrastructure management, and reduce outages. The products provide automated diagramming, configuration management, and predictive network planning capabilities.
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Intelligent Configuration
Management
• Network Troubleshooting
• Automated Diagramming
• Policy Compliance
• Configuration Management
Real-Time Network Data
Management
• Central data collection and
repository for NPCM tools
Predictive Multi-Layer
Network Planning
• Multi-layer Planning
• Proactive Change Validation
• Optical Network Design
Introducing Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM)
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Riverbed SteelCentral™ Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM) family helps overwhelmed IT staff deal with the
everyday challenges of delivering critical business services to end users.
NPCM products can make a daily impact by:
• Keeping your network in compliance with an ever-increasing number of
regulatory, organizational, and security policies using NetAuditor.
• Planning ahead for the growth and the network impact of new services
and technologies using NetPlanner.
• Having a complete, up-to-date set of network change, topology and
configuration data using NetCollector.
Introducing Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM)
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Network Planning and
Configuration
Management
Streamlining the NPCM story
OPNET NetMapper® software
OPNET Sentinel® software OPNET VNE Server® software OPNET Network Planner® software
SIMPLIFIED LINEUP - From 16 Products to 3
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What’s new?
NetCollector
Added SteelHead
support to enable
diagramming and
configuration auditing
Quick, trace-route
independent, and more
accurate application
network paths
Rebranded and
refocused
NetPlanner
Integration with
NetProfiler for flow-
based capacity
planning and routing
analysis
VPN browsers for one-
stop VPN planning in
carrier networks
Optimized for
planning use cases
NetAuditor
New network
diagramming
workflows
Overlays configuration
differences and
violations on network
maps
Configuration change
management using
Provisioner module
Streamlined
web interface
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NPCM business benefits
Improve efficiency – Create accurate network diagrams
on-demand for troubleshooting, regulatory compliance,
planning, change management and inventory reporting in
minutes, not weeks
Ease infrastructure management – Reduce
misconfiguration by up to 70%; for infrastructure that’s
too important and too complex to be managed manually
Reduce network outages – Reduce network outages up
to 30% with customized, automated audit reports; detect
policy violations before they affect service availability
Mitigate Risk – Accurately plan for changes - data
growth, data center migration, technology migration, and
new application deployment - without making changes to
the production network
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What makes NPCM different?
NetAuditor provides a greater level of detail and customizability for
on-demand network diagramming and reports that can be easily
shared, and can be viewed from any internet-capable device.
NetPlanner has a high-fidelity network model that combines multiple
sources of data for a more complete understanding of the network and
more accurate predictions of network behavior and performance.
NetCollector has a uniform data model that supports multiple use
cases, with industry-leading, multi-vendor, deep network discovery
and collection at Layer 2 /3, and can infer physical, logical and virtual
relationships between infrastructure elements.
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NPCM: Three Key Takeaways
Reduce network outages – Helps speed network
troubleshooting to reduce MTTR and ensure compliance.
Ease infrastructure management – Reduces time and
effort spent manually collecting and reconciling network
data.
Mitigate risk – Helps plan for network resiliency despite
network changes and growth over time.
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For More Information
Nik Katsoukas
Sr. Director, Product Marketing,
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Greg Paul
Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Jim Frey
Vice President of Research,
Network Management
Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
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Thank You
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Intelligent Network Configuration Management
NetAuditor at a glance
Policy
Compliance and
Reporting
Automated
Diagramming
Configuration
Change
Management
Network
Troubleshooting
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Predictive Multi-layer Network Planning
NetPlanner at a glance
Flow-based capacity
planning and routing
analysis
Rich set of
network
visualizations
Comprehensive
reporting
“What-if”
scenario
capability
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Unified Real-Time Network Intelligence
NetCollector at a glance
Framework to acquire
comprehensive
network data
Rich
data
model
Automated deep
network discovery &
collection
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NetAuditor - Sample Screen Shot
THE WEB-BASED INTERFACE FOR NETAUDITOR ACCELERATES AND SIMPLIFIES TROUBLESHOOTING WORKFLOWS
WITH INSTANT IDENTIFICATION OF RECENT NETWORK CHANGES AND AUDIT VIOLATIONS
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NetAuditor/NetCollector – How it
works
Collect and process configuration and operational data
from the network using CLI and SNMP with
NetCollector
NetAuditor analyzes this data and creates a model of
the network for use in network troubleshooting,
automated diagramming, policy compliance, and
reporting
The changes to address the detected network
problems are created using the Provisioner module of
NetAuditor
Provisioner for SteelCentral NetAuditor Module pushes
the changes to the production network using
NetCollector and maintains a detailed record of the
changes made
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NetMapper - Sample Screen Shot
CREATE RICH NETWORK DIAGRAMS IN MS VISIO FOR DOCUMENTATION AND DISTRIBUTION WITH THE
STEELCENTRAL NETMAPPER FOR NETPLANNER MODULE
Editor's Notes
The Riverbed performance management story becomes more compelling than ever and further solidifies Riverbed’s position as the recognized leader in this space. The NPCM v18 release builds on and extends the richness and depth of Riverbed’s network performance management portfolio, with:
Unified real-time network intelligence
Topology-driven network configuration management, and
Smart multi-layer network planning