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What's New in Mazu Profiler 8.1

Mazu Profiler 8.1 delivers a wide range of new features and capabilities that provide improved performance and availability management capabilities.

Response-Time Management

If your company is like most, your IT operations staff probably learns about application performance problems from your end users and finds is difficult to quickly identify the root cause of the degradation; is the problem with the network, systems, or application? And it can be nearly impossible to quantify the impact of a performance problem. To overcome these critical challenges, Mazu Profiler 8.1 provides the ability to alert you to application response time threshold violations. This enables you to identify the network round-trip time (RTT) and server delay components of response time. You can now easily understand which business units or users are experiencing poor response time. Mazu Profiler provides three classes of response-time metrics:

• Network round-trip time (RTT) - the time it takes a packet to go from client workstation to the server and back, measured in milliseconds
• Server delay - the time it takes a server to start responding to a request made by a client
• Response time - the elapsed time, measured in milliseconds, from when a client first requests data to when data begins to arrive at the client; this overall response time includes both the network RTT and the server delay, and provides a true measurement of users' experience

Mazu Profiler's response-time management can be used by IT organizations to:

• Support performance SLAs and measure their effectiveness
• Understand actual network and application performance
• Detect meaningful change from normal performance to provide early warning to delivery problems
• Quickly determine whether a problem is related to the network or server(s)

Enterprise Application Mappings

Today’s applications are increasingly complex. Mazu Profiler 8.1 allows you to map the complex server, port, and protocol relationships to identify applications without a sensor. This provides a cost-effective way to map applications without the need for sensor coverage across the back end of the data center.

WAN Management

It can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to accurately quantify the cost and bandwidth savings of WAN optimization. But network managers are often asked to identify which links and sites will benefit most from optimization. You need to understand which business users and services are affected by non-business applications. With Mazu Profiler 8.1, you can:

• Measure user experience and bandwidth consumption of applications historically and in real time
• Distinguish business vs. non-business usage of bandwidth for planning and optimization decisions
• Select and prioritize WAN sites for optimization
• Validate optimization benefits in bandwidth and response time by application
• Manage ongoing availability and performance

Grouping Enhancements

Sometimes you need to group network devices (WAN, LAN, core, data center) for configuration, security (policy-setting), reporting, etc. Mazu Profiler 8.1 supports this capability to increase your efficiency and productivity. Similarly, you may need to group repetitive patterns of IP address for reporting and setting policy. Mazu host grouping now allows you to specify wildcards when grouping hosts to cover repetitive patterns of addressing.

Selective Flow Data Forwarding

Some customers need a single NetFlow distribution solution for multiple NetFlow-consuming tools. The Mazu Profiler regional gateway can now be configured to selectively forward NetFlow to different tools based on source address.

SAN Support

Mazu Profiler 8.1 allows you to connect to your existing SAN for standard and clustered Profilers for long-term, high-volume storage of historical data.

ACL Support

Access Control List (ACL) creation allows you to block a problem system or threat. This feature complements Mazu Profiler's existing router and switch mitigation.