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Connectivity is more valuable to today’s businesses than ever. Partly, this is because many business-critical operations are happening online. Employees are connecting using collaborative software. Customers are seeking support and placing orders online. At the same time, suppliers and partners are transmitting data online. All their success depends on network capacity and reliability.
One of the positive things that came out of events in 2020 was that many of us started working from home. At first, it was kind of weird. But once we realized that what we needed was available online, it became easier. All we had to do was figure out a few new apps, like Slack, Asana and Google Docs. Then, after a couple of weeks of working from home, many of us started having thoughts like, “I wonder if I could wear shorts and my favorite slippers?
The capacity to scale and process high data traffic by monitoring appliances is a critical requirement for organizations aiming to enhance or improve their security and protection from external threats. Excessive incoming traffic demands high-monitoring capabilities as it overwhelms the monitoring tools and places computational bounds that increase exponentially.
In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.
This blog post is part of our data centre networking series: In the previous blogs, we covered the architecture and main drivers behind software-defined networking. In this one, we discuss the impact of softwarisation on the other important data centre building blocks, culminating in software-defined data centres (SDDC).