Managing the health of the network as applications and traffic patterns change over time is a major concern for every network administrator.

Many customers are unaware of exactly what is running on the network, or what has been added to it since it was first implemented. Some notice intermittent problems, but are unclear as to the reasons for poor network performance. Others only become aware of underlying network problems after a new bandwidth hungry application has been launched.

A network health-check helps customers overcome challenging problems, such as the root cause of poor response times or intermittent outages, what protocols are running, which devices use the most resources or are placing operational strain on the network, or what are normal traffic patterns so that when a problem occurs it is quickly identified.

Our network health-check is an independent examination, assessment and review of your network. It provides you with a detailed report on the current status of your network, identifying errors, providing statistics for trend analysis and makes recommendations for problem resolution and future growth.

Our consultants have extensive experience in multivendor and multiprotocol networks. The goal of the network health-check is to:

	review the network topology, redundancy, addressing and routing
	identify single points of failure, bandwidth or resource waste and points of congestion
	measure bandwidth utilisation (average/peak), top talkers, frame sizes and protocol utilisation
	check router memory and CPU utilisation
	interpret fault logs, alarm history and other performance reports
	examine equipment configuration settings
	determine, analyse and pinpoint the cause of any underlying network performance problems such as slow response times, retransmissions, time-outs and lost connections

A network health-check helps you proactively manage your network and assists you with planning your systems and operations before adding new applications or functionality.

Our network health-check helps you to:

	proactively manage your network
	understand traffic flows and bottlenecks
	identify and pinpoint any current problems that need to be rectified
	plan the actions necessary to balance the network for efficient operation
	review network capacity to enable new applications and support future growth
	make short and long term recommendations to improve network performance, reliability and stability to avoid sudden failure

Our network health-check reports are used to:

	replace concerns with quantified information necessary to make decisions
	help plan all the elements necessary for a successful migration
	justify upgrades or improvements to make ready for growth
	validate a proposed solution based on the results