Proactive Network Monitoring at the DTCC

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is at the epicenter of the financial world. The business of the DTCC involves the safe transfer of securities ownership and settlement of trillions of dollars in trade obligations, under tight deadlines every day. At the same time, DTCC’s primary mission is to protect and mitigate risk for its members. DTCC ensures the capacity, certainty and reliability required to clear and settle today's enormous trading volumes.

This session will discuss how the DTCC has implemented a system to warn of degradation on the TCP/IP network before it affects our customers.

We will discuss our methodology:

1. Business requirements 
2. Metrics used
3. Processing of alerts and warnings
4. Integration into our operational systems
5. Results

Tracks: Enterprise Data Center Management, IT Management, Network Support and Management and z/OS Systems Programming