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Allot CommunicationsAllot Communications

www.allot.com

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Empowering Networks for Business

NetAccountant Reporter

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The NeedIP networks become critical to businessesEnterprise network managers and ISP customers seek information on bandwidth usage:

Who is using what (application)?How much is being used?When do peaks occur?Which is the most used applications?Who is the busiest customer (client)?Which is the busiest server?

Report data is used for Troubleshooting network problemsCapacity planningControl costsSecurity Audit

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The Solution:NetAccountant Reporter

View bandwidth consumption by users and applications:

Find the applications used by the busiest PC's in the network --Find the PC's activating the busiest protocols

Use the NetAccountant to collect all session statistics and save it in a databaseUse the NetAccountant Reporter to view IP session statistics with advanced graphical tools

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Switch

Network Center

Cache, FTP, Email

CCMBilling

NetAccountant Reporter

Residential

BusinessCustomer(Silver)

NetEnforcerRouter

BusinessCustomer

(Gold)

NetEnforcer & NetAccountant

Reporter in a Network

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Use NetAccountant Reporter

to Get:

A comprehensive view of network activity Customized reports on-the-fly using third-party tools such as Crystal Reports WAN link utilization by server, client, policy (VC/ Pipe) and service (protocol)Employee usage of the Internet, including busiest users, servers and applications Abuse (potential security holes) patterns Manage the appropriate mix of “fun” and “business” traffic

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NetAccountant ReporterFeatures

Collect all session statistics from a NetEnforcerDisplay data by: total amount of traffic, or traffic-rate (total traffic divided by total time)Provide details on WAN link utilization and network performance Provide comprehensive view of network activity

Describe employee usage of the Internet, including busiest users, servers and applicationsEnable network managers to create advanced usage reports, such as what application is used by the most active host

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Basic Report Definition

Select:PipeVCServiceClientServer

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Advanced Report DefinitionDrilling down on the results of the Basic reports, based on:

Pipes – VC’s, Services, Clients, ServersVC’s – Pipes, Services, Clients, ServersServices – Pipes, VC’s, Clients, ServersClients – Pipes, VC’s, Services, ServersServers – Pipes, VC’s, Services, Clients

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NetAccountant Reporter Benefits to Customer

Analyze network performancePlan future capacity by analyzing network/application usage and load distribution Troubleshoot network problemsFind usage patterns

Who is getting most of the bandwidthWhat applications are most “wasteful”Who is chocking the most critical network resource (WAN link)

Manage the appropriate mix of “fun” and “business” trafficProvide customers and management with detailed and drill-down reports

Find the server that is flooding the net with heavy traffic

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Sample Report:Hourly Traffic by Policies

View a day, hour by hourThe selected policies (VC’s or Pipes) are color codedHere you can see that on the Inbound, on January 1, 2002 between 4am and 9am iMesh (Peer to Peer VC) was very active – almost 20KBytes consumption per hour

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Sample Report:Total Traffic by Policy (VC or

Pipe)

View a day, hour by hourThe selected policies (VC’s or Pipes) are color codedHere you can see that the total traffic, on January 3, 2002 between 9am and midnight Exchange and HTTP-Authenticated were the most active VC’s

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Sample Report:View Client Total Traffic

View a month, day by day (only the first 14 days have data)The selected Clients are color codedHere you can see that, on the selected dates, one client (x.x.x.3) is much more active than the other (x.x.x.202)Total traffic readings are available

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Sample Advanced Report:Servers on Policies (VC’s or

Pipes)

View a day, hour by hourThe selected servers on specific VC’s or Pipes are color codedHere you can see that the total traffic, on a selected date, per server (for example, x.x.x.27 is the most active between 11am and 1pm)

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Sample Advanced Report:Services on Policies (VC’s or

Pipes)

View a month, day by day (only the first 14 days have data)The selected services are color codedHere you can see that HTTP is the most active service Total traffic readings are available

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View Report WindowToolbar

Group treedisplay area

Reportdisplay area

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Sample Graph Report

You can select an entry in the group tree, such as an hour, day or month, to jump to that point in the report

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Whole Range ReportsDepict aggregated data for an entire date range in a single pie chartData for the entire range covered by the report is a single time period, rather than breaking it down into smaller time units, such as hours, days or months

(e.g., if you specify a whole range report that spans 3 days, the data in the report will be totaled for the 3-day period)

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Sample Tabular Reports Last Page

The header rows for hourly, daily and monthly totals in a Tabular report are distinct.

This makes it easier to distinguish between corresponding subtotals in the report.

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Import NetEnforcer Data

User can import data from a NetEnforcer usinga Manual or Scheduled Import – in both cases the periodcovered is 93 days (3 months)

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Scheduled Import – Use the Windows Wizard

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ExportCSV, PDF, Excel, Access, HTML, my sql, XML Write in the Destination a disk file or an email recipient

For example, when selecting Microsoft Mail (MAPI) to export data via email, an email window is displayed where you enter your email recipient details and click Send. The email application to be used must be open when the export operation is performed

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Backup and Restore

Disaster recovery: protect your dataArchive and protect your old data from database overwriting

In Scheduled Mode, older data (than 93 days) will be deleted automatically

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Why NetAccountant Reporter?

Understand network usage patternsView bandwidth consumption by users and applications Identify all active applicationsControl costs (e.g., limit bandwidth)Analyze problems (peaks, etc.)Use data to limit “abusive” hosts or applications

Use data for capacity planning

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Policy Based Networking - a Complete Solution

EnforcementShaping and conditioningURL FilteringQoS tagging (gateway)Server balancingCache enforcementPreventing DoS attacks

Monitoring and AccountingPolicy monitoringUser accounting and billingEvent managementCapacity planningService management

Policy and SLA ManagementDefine policiesNetPolicy 2.xPolicies >> network actions User directory/CCB management

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Americas

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Israel

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Tokyo 104-0061, Japan

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Europe, Middle East and Africa

World Trade Center

1300, Route Des Cretes

BP 255 Sophia Antipolis Cedex

France 06905

Tel 33-(0)4-92-38-80-27

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Asia Pacific

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Republic Plaza #27-01

Singapore 048619

Tel: 65-832-5663

Fax: 65-832-5662

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