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Capabilities of CA Network Flow Analysis

CA Network Flow Analysis capabilities help you analyze network traffic and make informed decisions about resolving issues. The capabilities described in the following list can give you valuable data for capacity planning, troubleshooting, and traffic analysis.

• Identify network traffic that exceeds a specified threshold so you can manage your network proactively.
• Identify bandwidth requirements for applications and users so you can evaluate network capacity precisely.
• Immediately identify the interfaces, hosts, and applications that generate the most traffic in your enterprise. This information is essential for short-term and long‑term troubleshooting.
• View the impact of application rollouts on WAN links and measure application traffic growth using protocol-level trend analyses, application baseline trend comparisons, and percent-growth tables. These analyses help yo make more informed infrastructure investments.
• Pinpoint the exact cause of a network problem by examining 100 percent of all NetFlow and IPFIX traffic from the last four hours.
• Review automatic alerts and detailed reports so you discover network problems quickly.
• Design and run reports that are based on criteria that you select.
• View real-time NetFlow and IPFIX monitoring reports and alarms for every interface on the network for past 30 days with 1-minute granularity.
• Establish baselines for protocol and flow data so you can compare current data with past performance.
• Analyze trends in applications, hosts, and conversations per class of service. This information helps you optimization your network infrastructure for application performance.
• Drill into raw flows per interface to assist with troubleshooting.
• Review trend settings for historical data and for future projections to perform more effective capacity planning.