Sample Business Scenario

In a data center, several activities are happening, such as replication of data between clusters, virtual machine integration, and database backup. Users in an organization could be watching videos on an OTT or downloading them. Bandwidth utilization for such activities might result in elephant flows, slow down the network, and impact the performance of important tasks. As a network administrator (and depending on your specific requirements), you want visibility into such large flows that are causing bandwidth issues and remediate them.

As an example, let us see how you can configure elephant flow parameters to bypass Snort inspection for WebEx traffic (which your organization uses for real-time video conferencing) and throttle the remaining applications or connections, including videos, movies, and so on.