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12:00 PM–5:00 PM
Continental 5
Reseller
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Reseller Summit (Lunch Provided)
Alan Fink, Mike Hensley, Anne Germanos, Greg Mayo, Steven Shalita, Michael Szabados; Guest Speaker: John Cash, Bell Canada
All of NetScout’s Authorized resellers are invited to join this custom session, Ramp up your NetScout
knowledge with valuable information and updates . Start with a lunch and round table discussion where we want
to know more about you and hear your feedback on NetScout . The rest of the session is led by key executives,
who will provide you with strategies (including competitive data) to help you be a NetScout success story .
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Imperial A
BKE208a - Enterprise: Best Practices
Alarming with nGenius Performance Manager
Bob Sherman
Network experts face numerous considerations for properly configuring and interpreting alarms and alerts,
such as knowing which parameters to set, how to prevent alarm overload, and most fundamentally, how to
relate alarming to overall objectives to become more predictive and preemptive as well simply responsive
to failures . Lots to set up and decipher, but we’ll show you how . This presentation / demo explores how and
when to apply nGenius Performance Manager and nGenius Service Delivery Manager’s extensive alarming
capabilities and types of alarms to achieve your performance management objectives . We look at what is
effective alarming, baselining and thresholding configuration .
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Franciscan D
BKE209 - Enterprise: Best Practices
Utilizing CLA Commands in nGenius Performance Manager v4.9
Scott Dudick
CLA now has the ability to work with sites (subnets), and server-based applications (including the application
tag field) . This session will look at the various uses for the application tag, its impact on controlling
applications, and enabling our toolset to collaborate with other tools as its master repository, such as CMDBs .
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Imperial B
BKE210 - Enterprise: Breakouts
Monitoring N-tier Applications with nGenius Performance Manager
Ken Ferrere
Assuring high availability of N-tier based applications is a common challenge for IT Executives and
Managers . Because of their scalability and modularity, these complex application architectures are typically
used to support high-volume, mission critical applications within the enterprise . However, N-tier applications
present new management challenges to the IT organization . This session describes how to optimally deploy
and configure your NetScout solution to help maximize application availability, facilitate effective reporting
and diagnostics for N-tier applications . Topics include a recommended instrumentation deployment strategy,
effective management, reporting and diagnostics methodologies using nGenius Performance Manager and
nGenius Service Delivery Manager .
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