We’ve noticed that HP is definitely making inroads into the switch market. People are still buying Cisco routers, but consumers are realizing that they can use less expensive switches on the periphery. The list of features on the HP Procurve is impressive, however, their promptness to market a feature doesn’t mean it was implemented well, or even free of bugs. Read more »

Michael Patterson
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It’s here!

We said it would come, and now it has been delivered.

With the availability of the new migration function, which comes with the latest release of Plixer’s own NetFlow monitoring application, we can now make your conversion from Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer v6 to v7 smoother than ever.

Now, with the assistance of this new tool, your historical NetFlow data and elaborate Flash maps will be moved right on over to your new install.

Please know that there will be some limitations to this NetFlow data migration process. If you are still using Scrutinizer version 6 for your network traffic analysis and would like to know more about them, please contact Plixer support. Also, if you are interested to know what other new features and fixes are available in the latest release, take a look at the Scrutinizer version 7.2 release notes.

So, if you are eager to start running the most revolutionary Windows NetFlow Collector on the market, give our Support Team a call and we will assist you in getting your migration started!

Plixer Support
(207) 324-8805 ext: 4

Scrutinizer v7.2 NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer has been released.  A complete log on the updates is on our web site.  The migration from v6.X to v7.2 is also done. Please contact plixer +1 (207) 324-8805 for assistance on the migration. 

We are offering 2 webcasts to cover many of the new features for Network Traffic Analysis. Read more »

Michael Patterson
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Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer from Plixer International can support NetStream packets, developed by Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd (H3C).

Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd (H3C) began operations as a joint venture between Huawei and 3Com in November 2003. In 2006, they officially went their separate ways, with 3Com buying out Huawei’s share in H3C. H3C, as 3Com’s presence in China, continued to prosper, until the non-compete clause that Huawei agreed to ended.
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We get a lot of questions on this topic. Personally, I generally deflect to some of the stuff we have posted on YouTube. Even though this webcast was recorded using Scrutinizer v6.X, I think the content is still very informative, if you have questions regarding the differences between sFlow and NetFlow collection for network traffic analysis.

 

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I saw some good news the other day from Riverbed that NetFlow v9 will be supported albeit in “the upcoming release of version 6.0″. The exact date is not specified.

I decided to investigate this and communicated with a developer over at Riverbed. He explained that egress is supported with v9 enabled by default. Read more »

Michael Patterson
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One of the challenges that we sometimes face when integrating 3rd party applications within our NetFlow analysis tool is that they work until the 3rd party vendor decides to change something…

With that in mind, I wanted to let our customer base know that as of a couple days ago, Google made some changes to the way that they handle API keys. More specifically, any geocoding requests that are made from 3rd party vendors are required to pass an API key.

What does that mean for us?

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Let’s say that you are looking for information regarding network traffic taking place between company workstations and an application server; we’ll call it acmeapplication.com. You know that acmeapplication.com is using random port numbers to send downloads back to the workstations making the requests.

When using NetFlow analysis software to monitor network traffic, you may see lots of HTTP port 80 conversations with the assistance of the Conversations filter, but nothing showing the random ports used by acmeapplication.com, as demonstrated below.

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Ever wonder what ports an application or process is using on the server?  Here is a useful trick that you can in turn use to setup application groups in your NetFlow collector.

If you want to find out what application is attached to a particular port on a server, you can run: netstat –nbt Read more »

Michael Patterson
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Expanding your network management options just got more affordable!

Through the Zenoss & Plixer partnership, the Scrutinizer ZenPack for integrating Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer is now available.

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