Building Network Disaster Recovery into Your Business Continuity Plan with nGenius Standby Server

• Maintaining your Network during a Disaster
• The Need for Contingency Planning
• Using nGenius Standby Server for Disaster Recovery
• Deployment Scenarios
• Business Continuity Customer Story
• Diagram: Automatic Replication of Configurations, Statistics and Property Files
• Related Documents
• Enabling Products

 Maintaining your Network during a Disaster 
The nGenius Standby Server preserves your network performance management data in the event of a hardware malfunction, power outage or failure due to a natural disaster. The tool can also help network and application managers maintain a network architecture that complies with regulatory demands for business continuity.

 The Need for Contingency Planning 
Today’s data centers, trading floors, and manufacturing facilities depend on continuous operation and availability to grow revenues, maintain profitability, and sustain customer loyalty. The rising number of natural disasters and terrorist-related events during the last few years has accentuated the need that enterprises and government agencies alike must be prepared to continue their critical business processes – under any circumstances. And today, where the network is so essential to daily business operations, it must be ready to "cutover" to the backup system seamlessly and without warning.

 nGenius® Standby Server for Disaster Recovery 
To assist organizations with business continuity planning, NetScout has developed the Standby Server that works in conjunction with the nGenius Performance Management System. The Standby Server maintains a frequently updated and replicated copy of the data collected by nGenius Probes and aggregated into its performance management software, which can help operations staff keep close tabs on network and application activity during a crisis, by showing:

• which systems and applications are on-line
• which sites and users are able to continue to conduct business
• how business services are performing on backup or redundant networks and systems

 Deployment Scenarios 
The nGenius Standby Server can be deployed:

• At an off-site, redundant data center or network operations center to which IT staff shift control and management of their networks and IT systems during a disruptive event.
• At a geographically distant third-party back-up site hosted by a business continuity service provider.
• Co-located with the primary server for on-site redundancy in case of a localized server, hardware or database failure.

Read a Business Continuity Customer Story.

 Related Documents 

• Application Note: Performance Management and your Disaster Recovery Plan
• Press Release: NetScout Systems Delivers High-Availability Capabilities for its Market-Leading nGenius Performance Manager Server

 Enabling Products 
To find out more information about NetScout’s Sniffer and nGenius products click on the appropriate category links below:

• Network Analysis and Reporting – packet/flow-based analysis software for comprehensive network visibility
• Advanced Intelligence – early detection and in-depth analysis of complex or specialized application services
• Continuous Packet Capture – long-term packet capture for real-time and retrospective network troubleshooting
• Distributed Network Monitoring – robust, versatile monitoring devices for LAN and WAN environments
• NetFlow Collection – dedicated high-density NetFlow and IP SLA collection