Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter

MONITOR NETWORK AND APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter delivers a unified approach to monitoring network and application performance within
distributed branch networks.
By leveraging Blue Coat’s unparalleled deep visibility solutions, IntelligenceCenter provides comprehensive application
performance monitoring to quickly and easily understand application and network performance. IntelligenceCenter ensures
that application performance meets user expectations when deployed together with Blue Coat PacketShaper as a complete
visibility and control solution.

Application Intelligence you to specify both the content and Modular Architecture Supports
Allows a New Level of Insight context of a report, and even schedule Advanced Reporting
report generation and distribution at -> Support new business technologies
IntelligenceCenter collects critical
regular intervals. You can also configure and initiatives with insightful reporting,
performance data from multiple
user accounts with access to specific analysis and management features
PacketShapers, and generates the
locations and reports, allowing you to and workflows
consolidated reports you need to
grant role-based access while retaining Flexible Role-Based Access Control
troubleshoot enterprise-wide application
overall control.
delivery and make informed decisions -> Define custom roles that grant access
about infrastructure investments. You FEATURES to specific features, data, reports, and
can schedule distribution of reports Centrally Monitor Application devices, and assign individuals or groups
with details on bandwidth utilization Performance of users to the role that matches their
and efficiency, network and server responsibilities
-> Define and monitor all applications
response times, defined application deployed anywhere in your Site-Based Reporting
performance compliance, and more. distributed network -> Understand and track per-site utilization,
IntelligenceCenter empowers you to efficiency, and response time data
Deep Application Visibility
monitor application usage, analyze
-> Analyze application behavior enterprise- Alerts to monitor IntelligenceCenter
performance, and take action to
wide with highly granular detail available Health
make sure applications perform
only from Blue Coat -> Robust alerting infrastructure to monitor
the way you expect.
the health of IntelligenceCenter and
Simplify Performance attached data collectors
Reporting
Changes in response time can make
critical business applications unreliable,
causing calls to the helpdesk, longer
transaction times, and reduced
productivity. IntelligenceCenter
provides a live data view of application
availability in a dashboard portal, and
reports Service Level Agreement (SLA)
compliance per application over time
by monitoring key statistics such as
throughput, latency and packet loss.
This dashboard greatly simplifies the
monitoring of your key applications
to ensure performance always
meets expectations.

Flexible and Customizable

IntelligenceCenter makes it easy for you
to monitor key performance metrics and
keep others informed. All of the built-in IntelligenceCenter application performance monitoring shows at-a-glance
application performance comparisons.
reports are fully customizable, allowing
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Powerful Host Reporting

For detailed analysis and forensics,
IntelligenceCenter reports on Flow
Detail Records (FDRs), which describe
application used, flow origin and
destination, flow size (in terms of
packets and bytes), when the flow was
sent, flow utilization (throughput and
efficiency), service type, ports, DSCP,
VLAN and response time measurement
data. This host-level detail assists with:
-> Troubleshooting and forensics
-> Comparing usage by application -> Identifying top talkers, listeners, and IntelligenceCenter makes it easy to
host pairs maintain optimal performance by
-> Monitoring individual application flows
-> Tracking connections between local and providing a comprehensive, integrated
(such as VoIP, ERP and Web services)
remote networked devices view of all business critical applications,
-> Reporting host activity by traffic class, network top talkers, top listeners, and
application and site top traffic, WAN links and partitions.

Environment Small Medium Large

Up to 50 Devices, 25,000 flows per Up to 100 Devices, 200,000 fpm and Up to 250 Devices, 500,000 fpm and
Definition
minute (fpm) and 10,000 classes 25,000 classes 200,000 classes
1 for IntelligenceCenter; plus an
1 total - IntelligenceCenter and 1 total - IntelligenceCenter and additional server per Data Collector
Servers
Data Collector on same server Data Collector on same server (capacity: 100 devices, 500,000 fpm
and 40,000 classes)
Processor 1 quad core 2.66 Ghz or better 2 quad core 2.66 Ghz or better 2 quad core 2.66 Ghz or better
Memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB
Disk Three 300 GB SAS, RAID (0, 1, 5) Five 450 GB SAS, RAID (0, 1, 5) Six 500 GB SAS, RAID (0, 1, 5)
Operating Windows 2008 Enterprise (English Windows 2008 Enterprise (English Windows 2008 Enterprise (English
System Language, 32 or 64 bit) Language, 64 bit) Language, 64 bit)

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