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Overview: For many years, in most industries, traceability is essential, and very often is mandated by the State. And since Sarbanes Oxley, traceability is mandatory for the information systems bound to financial transactions of a company quoted on the stock market.
In most of our systems, traceability is done with logs which provide the history of all transactions.
But for networking, it seems that traceability is unknown.
Currently, we don't get an accurate picture of how we use our networks, which computers are consuming most of the bandwidth, in which proportion, at what period of the day.
This deficiency could be satisfied with the traceability of data exchanged between all computers communicating over the networks.
From this knowledge, we could focus our efforts on real causes of bandwidth soaring.
In the end, networks cost would be better controlled.
NER - Network Exchanges Reporter - is an answer to our needs on network traceability.
It holds the history of all network exchanges between computers for years.
To summarize, the main goals of NER are:
- to lower networks infrastructures costs by detecting computers abusing bandwidth.
- to get a complete knowledge on any past period of networks exchanges on a communication node.
- to anticipate critical applications performances issues by detecting increase of servers responses time.
- to provide crucial information on networks exchanges between computers involved in an incident which may occurred several weeks ago.
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