The network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex. As a result, the IT staff has fewer hours per day to spend on finding problems proactively, meeting regulatory or corporate compliance, and fixing issues fast enough before they impact end users. Research has shown that the average large enterprise can incur downtime costs on the order of 3-4% of its total annual revenue. These costs will increase unless organizations find ways to dramatically improve IT management. Traditional management tools, while good at providing a lot of information, typically create more work for the network engineer as he tries to decipher what it all means. Tools are needed to perform the same deep data collection and analysis, automatically, across a large number of network devices, so that existing staff can make better decisions more quickly.

To achieve high service availability, organizations are looking for increased automation when it comes to network analysis, proactive detection of issues, and problem solving. NetMRI provides this level of automation by continuously collecting performance, configuration, security, and interface information from every network element, and uses built-in expert rules and analysis to find hidden problems that are often overlooked. Issues are detected well before the network suffers from any costly downtime.