Here are top three goals to keep in mind when redesigning
the management infrastructure:
- Leverage what you have
- Maximize ROI
- Make it future proof
If there’s already a network packet broker (intelligent TAP)
system in place—and in most large networks there will be—it should be used to
properly “tune” the network traffic to the existing monitoring tools and
security systems. Assuming the NPB system is sufficiently scalable and modular
(and again, it should be), adding 100G or 40G capture interfaces/appliances
will be fairly straightforward.
Once the physical capture interfaces have been added, most
of the functions needed to accomplish tool optimization are reasonably simple,
but could do with some emphasis. Check out this solution guide outlining the
essentials of leveraging 1G and 10G toolsets across 40G and 100G networks:
