Forecasting and meeting business needs

The network team is asked to predict how long an organization’s current infrastructure will continue to support their business needs. To visualize trends in network growth, they create report configurations for various aspects of the environment and use them to create ML-driven forecasts in Plixer Scrutinizer.

Workflow

Because Plixer Scrutinizer Forecasts are based on Reports, the environment’s current capabilities should be split up into separate capacities, such as:

• WAN usage

• VPN traffic

• Subnet-to-subnet patterns

• BGP traffic

• Core router saturation

• Critical application latency

From there, one or more report configurations should be created and saved for each capacity. These reports can then be used to generate forecasts that will show emerging utilization trends. At the same time, any latency problems discovered may also indicate potential capacity issues that need to be addressed, depending on their frequency and degree of deviation from the baseline.