Working in technical support I get asked a lot, “I enabled NetFlow on my router, why don’t I see outbound traffic?” This is because NetFlow version 5 only supports ingress flow monitoring and they don’t have NetFlow enabled on all interfaces. In NetFlow v5 outbound traffic is calculated by the idea what goes in must go out (or stop at the router) so, it’s necessary that all interfaces are monitoring ingress traffic to get an accurate representation of outgoing traffic. So, if ingress monitoring has been working great all along why enable egress monitoring?

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You’ve installed Scrutinizer only to find out that your network hardware doesn’t support NetFlow or sFlow; what now? If you’re in this situation then you’ve come to the right place. I’ve put together a guide on how to configure a Windows nProbe to send NetFlow v5 to your favorite NetFlow collector and analyzer.

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Our development team has been working hard and we are pleased to announce the release of Plixer Tools 8.0.0. What’s Plixer Tools you ask? We’ve combined Denika, Logalot, WebNM, and Flowalyzer into a single installer to provide better integration with Scrutinizer.

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Hello everybody! My name is Paul Dube and I have recently graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a degree in Computer Science and joined the support team here at Plixer International. Over the course of the past few weeks I’ve been trying to learn everything there is to know about Scrutinizer, NetFlow, sFlow and network traffic analysis. During this process I’ve come across a lot of great resources that I would like to consolidate into one place to help you get started.
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