You have been asked to provide a Bill of Materials (BoM) for a mature small business with two sites. The IT Director prefers all hardware to be on-premise but is open to cloud-based solution. In conversations with the IT staff, you determine that the main site has approximately 550 network devices and 400 users. All users are in Active Directory. Eighty of the users use a Pulse Secure VPN to work remotely.
The second site is a warehouse operation with approximately 40 users and another 10 users that use Pulse Secure VPN. All wireless is using Aruba Networks Instant APs. There are Active Directory servers at both sites. All logs are currently being gathered into Splunk. The team feels that they can properly monitor the corporate site network with a single tap port on a central switch at the main office. There will be a network tap at the remote site.
Is this a suggestion you would make to the customer? (The customer should install the Fixed Configuration Analyzer at the main site, along with a Packet Processor in the data center and a single Packet Processor at the warehouse site.)