Gigamon U - WAN, LAN, and now the DAN
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LAN, WAN, SAN, and now DAN D ata A ccess N etwork
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The DAN or Data Access Network is a newly emerging "best practice" for passive monitoring of mission critical networks that solves real access problems, improves network performance and uptime, and saves capital, operation and maintenance costs. A DAN is a combination of out-of-band data access switching plus passive monitoring instrumentation to enable required security, compliance, forensics review, application performance, VoIP QoS, uptime and other network management tasks. Data is acquired from multiple SPAN ports or taps and multicast to multiple tools, aggregated to a few consolidated tools, and filtered or divided across many instances of the same tools. The DAN may be thought of as a Òdata socketÓ providing immediate access for ad hoc tool deployment without impact to the production network and outside of the scope of configuration management policies.
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LAN, WAN, SAN,and now
DANData Access Network
What’s a DAN?out-of-band passive monitoring network
Includes passive tools like: Security IDS Sensors,
Application Performance Monitors,
Troubleshooting Protocol Analyzers,
VoIP QoS Probes,
Forensic Recorders,
and Data Access Switching
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DAN provides “Data Sockets”Part of a Flexible Network Infrastructure
• Plug-in multiple out-of-band tools – ANY data to ANY tool• Unobtrusive 24x7 tool connections – never touch the network• Aggregate, Replicate, Filter and load balance data streams• Use legacy 1Gig tools to monitor new 10Gig networks
Why are DANs Needed Now?Things Have Changed
Enron and 9/11 spawned SOX auditing, increased security
and lawful intercept requirement
PLUS technology and business developments:Web site e-commerce and internet applications demand support
VoIP and media convergence make the network more strategic
Green networking demands smaller Data Center footprint
Network is how business gets done. Downtime is unacceptable
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New SOX compliance transaction monitors Keep your boss out of jail!
IDS Sensors detect external attacksFrom hackers
NAC appliance protects networks from insideFrom your own people!
CALEA lawful intercept and Forensic Recorders
Configuration monitoring tools watch over network resources
Application and Network troubleshooting
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Proliferation of Tools
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Proliferation Causes Contention for Span Ports
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a SPAN Port
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An Analogy:
Using a DAN is like using a power strip.
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Too Many Power Tools? Not Enough Sockets?
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For Power Tools, use a Power Strip
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Too Many Monitoring Tools? Not Enough Span Ports?
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For Sensors/Monitors/Analyzers,Use a DAN Switch
One Span port serves Many tools
What Other Problems do DANssolve?
Distributed Monitoring burning the budget?Consolidate tools; $ave money on capital and operational budgets
Unsecure monitor or tap ports risk data leakage?DAN can secure all access point to prevent snooping
Too much traffic for one tool? Reduce and balance load over multiple units to match tool capacity
Restrictive Configuration Management Policies?Deploy tools and make changes on your own schedule
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Monitoring a Mesh Network?
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Old Solution: Lots of Distributed Tools,Deploy one tool per span port/switch
Lots of hardware…very expensive!
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Better: Distribute Connections with a DANConsolidate Tools; Save CapEx $$$
Aggregate and balance flows to Consolidated Tools
DAN is “Best Practice” for Network Infrastructure Design
Totally flexible solution to many problems
Facilitates unobtrusive instrumentation of a network
Solves requirement for multiple tool access
Gives tools the view of the total network
Secures monitor and tap ports
Improves monitor coverage, saves time and money.
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DAN Solves Access Problems By
• Aggregating many links to any tool
• Multicasting any link to many tools
• Filtering data to map packets to tools
• Saving $$ Cap Ex and Op Ex budget$
Any to Any Any to ManyMany to Any Bit-Mask Filtering
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