I’ve been playing with our joint Mobile IAM reporting solution that we have developed with our partner Enterasys Networks.  These new reports appear to be very helpful when trying to find out about all the BYOD devices on the network, who authenticated them (i.e. username) and any BYOD security  issues that may have appeared in the host reputation  alarm dashboard.

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It’s common to need UDP forwarding to replicate UDP packets to all of your network monitoring solutions. Being the developers of NetFlow analysis software we have UDP NetFlow replication sending NetFlow packets to multiple development and production servers. This can be a challenge as most NetFlow exporters only send NetFlow packets to two different destinations. As a result of this, we are now selling an all in one UDP replicator appliance with a web based interface that can be configured from anywhere.

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Cisco has released the Cisco NGA 3140 or NetFlow Generation Appliance which extends NetFlow abilities to switches that don’t support NetFlow or IPFIX.  I didn’t find details on the cost however, I’m sure it will cost more than the nBox or the softflowd.

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Join the Cisco ASA NSEL Webcast and learn about our new NetFlow NSEL (Network Secure Event Logging) reporting capabilities. This webcast will provide details on NSEL reporting as well as information on lowering the risk of C&C bots, Advanced Persistent Threats and other internet hosts with a poor IP host reputation. See several of over a dozen new ASA NSEL Reports:

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If you are looking for an agentless performance monitoring solution for Citrix Desktop Virtualization, consider using AppFlow or IPFIX exports from your Citrix NetScaler.  AppFlow is the Citrix IPFIX export which is basically the proposed standard for NetFlow v9.   Through IPFIX, Citrix is now exporting details on Applications, URLS, browser types, user details and more.

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The most advanced Flow technologies today come in the form of (FnF) Flexible NetFlow Reporting and IPFIX Reporting.  Some vendors have renamed these technologies to AppFlow, Cascade Flow, J-Flow and NetStream, however they are usually a near copy of either NetFlow or IPFIX.

List of Next Gen NetFlow / IPFIX Reporting Features

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If you are looking to invest in Cisco Prime Assurance Manager because you want to monitor your Cisco MediaNet with NetFlow, don’t overlook the 3rd party alternatives.   We worked extensively with Cisco to build the best Flexible NetFlow reporting tool.  In fact, you will find the leader in NetFlow within the Cisco “Medianet 2.2 Deployment Guide”.  Our NetFlow Analyzer can be found on page 7,8,10 & 11.

Before you invest, spend some time comparing the reports available in the two solutions:

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System requirements for a NetFlow collector are a lot higher than the average program. While I am still the “new guy” in support I am already seeing some trends here at Plixer. The majority of cases I have been working with involve servers that seem to run slow despite being on top of the line equipment. Nearly every time this issue comes up it is caused by an improper hard disk configuration.

One of the most overlooked NetFlow Collector System Requirements that write heavy database servers have is disk IOPS (Input/output Operations per Second). You have to remember that a spinning disk is very limited on how many writes it can make at any given time, and if the collector cannot write to the disk fast enough it can cause a lot of problems.  This has been the root cause of a lot of slow NetFlow collectors.

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What is your company’s BYOD policy?  Do you have one?  Does BYOD traffic monitoring exist in your network monitoring routines?  BYOD policies  need to be put in place as this new technology paradigm is costing most companies BIG TIME!

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Recently we created a bunch of new NetFlow reports for the exports and a solution for NAT Session Logging was one of the goals. This is not the first time we have created reports for this. We have also created NetFlow NAT Reports for:

• Palo Alto NetFlow exports
• Cisco ASR NetFlow exports

If you need help with your Cisco ASA NetFlow Configuration using ASDM there are some great “how to” videos on youtube.com. Reporting on NAT with NetFlow is sure to improve your network traffic monitoring efforts.

We also created some nifty reports that display the ACLs violated.

Let us know if you need any help setting all this up.

 

- Thomas Pore

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