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Zero-Footprint Deployment for Easy Install and Immediate ROI

Easy to implement, easy to use, easy to avoid pitfalls others have fallen into. Xangati doesn’t need expensive agents or probes and implements in under an hour—not weeks or months.

Here are some examples of issues that Xangati has uncovered on the first day of deployment:

• Unscheduled back-ups clogging the WAN for SAP
• Misconfigured VoIP call processes dragging down call center productivity
• Misconfigured VLAN sending non-secure traffic into secure area
• Citrix server clusters not being properly load-balanced
• Hundreds of non-inventoried endpoints accessing centralized servers

 

Installs Within an Hour

The Xangati appliance simply plugs into an available network port and is considered just another endpoint in the infrastructure. It can be deployed centrally in a data center for example, but can provide comprehensive coverage for an entire infrastructure across numerous remote locations to the scale of 100,000 networked IP resources and applications on your network. The solution can be up and running in under an hour thanks to an install wizard.

 

Passively Collects Flow Data
Once configured the system begins to operate "out of the box" thanks to its reliance exclusively on pre-existing data sources already within your infrastructure. A primary source of information is NetFlow data or its "flow data" equivalents sFlow, cFlow, jFlow and IPFIX—there can be any combination of these processed by the same appliance. These solutions are protocols that can run natively on routers and switches and capture summary information about every IP to IP communication that traverses these devices. This incredibly rich information is often generated in the hardware processors of the routers/switches and can be continuously pushed to an appliance like Xangati to leverage the data. This push model allows a single Xangati appliance to passively receive data about all devices and interactions across the entire infrastructure.

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Identifying All Your Resources

While having flow data is important to understand activity in its raw form, Xangati's system tries to "put a name to a face" by binding fixed identities like device names to IP addresses which are more often than not, dynamically allocated. To do this Xangati simply leverages standing directories/databases that are within your infrastructure. Xangati has connectors for Active Directory, LDAP, rDNS and the Calix Management System. In cases where these solutions may not apply, Xangati can also leverage SNMP to help tie the vendor specific MAC address of a device to an IP address. The result is that one knows not only about all application interactions, but which specific devices over time that are driving them.

 

Complementing Existing Management Solutions

The Xangati solution can be directly connected with your existing manager of manager (MOM) solutions from IBM, HP, CA, BMC, etc. through the generation of either syslogs or traps generated by specific classes of events deemed relevant to you that you want these solutions to process. And of equal importance, the Xangati solution is a complement to the standing investments that you have made in agents and probes. Xangati helps you understand the details behind what is driving the load that is hitting the CPU cycles that your agents are measuring. The Xangati solution can also help you best determine what incremental investments you might need to make in these technologies—given the high cost of agents, it is best to understand first what areas need more specific device-level coverage first.

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