Plixer puts the International in Scrutinizer with multi-language support for its NetFlow, sFlow analyzer

Posted in NetFlow, NetFlow Analyzer, Scrutinizer, sFlow on August 17th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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Hello, こんにちは, and Buenos Días,

Plixer International has been developing network traffic analyzers for a long time now. Because we’ve always delivered quality tools, we have a customer base that includes people from every corners of the world.

Plixer is proud to announce multi-language support within Scrutinizer so that users can analyze flows in their native language.

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What do NetFlow and watersports have in common?

Posted in IT News on August 10th, 2009 by Raul J Duran

Plixer!

Living large this summer, the annual Plixer summer outing was a blast.  We’ve taken a break from the NetFlow and the SFlow and the network analysis to have some fun.  We all met up at Moose Landing Marina and rented some pontoon boats and spent the day on Sebago Lake.

plixer on a boat 2009 - Moose Landing Marina

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Are Your SNMP performance reports accurate?

Posted in Denika, Log Management, NetFlow Analyzer, Network Problem Resolution, Network Traffic Monitor, Scrutinizer on August 3rd, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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OK, let’s say you’ve decided to live a healthier life. You’re exercising regularly, stopped getting drunk every night, and you’re eating healthy. You’ve been eating more salads, almost cut out red meat, and even eating annoyingly healthy desserts, if any. Read more »

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Cisco IP SLA Monitor or just IP SLA?

Posted in IP SLA, NetFlow, SNMP on July 27th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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Cisco IOS IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) help network administrators ensure that a high level of voice and data communication quality is maintained. Cisco IP SLA operations are a proactive method of reliably measuring network performance. IP SLA data can be retrieved and trended with an SNMP Performance trender to enable users to graph performance over time. Cisco IP SLA and SNMP should be in the tool belt of every network administrator. Pair these technologies with a NetFlow analyzer and you’ve got a great setup to help troubleshoot most network problems.

The purpose of this blog is to outline some of the IP SLA configuration changes in newer versions of Cisco’s IOS.

We’ve written a 4-part blog in the past that focuses on the following IP SLA operations:

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Cisco Systems 7600 Series and NetFlow – Not an ordinary router

Posted in Denika, NetFlow, Network Problem Resolution, Network Traffic Monitor, SNMP, Scrutinizer on July 20th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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“Why don’t I see my VLAN traffic?”  was the question one of our customers asked me the other day. Although other Cisco models were exporting flows properly, it seemed that all of his Cisco 7600s were under reporting traffic.

Cisco Systems 7600 router options

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What’s new in Scrutinizer v7 Cisco NetFlow Analyzer – Part 5

Posted in NetFlow, NetFlow Analyzer, Scrutinizer, sFlow on July 13th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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We’ve arrived at the final part of this blog series outlining some of the great Cisco NetFlow analysis improvements that will be found in Scrutinizer 7.0. With features like the ones we’re putting out in this new version, Scrutinizer is easily one of the best values in the flow-analysis market. Let’s continue outlining some more features of Scrutinizer 7.

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Customizing Scrutinizer can make a huge impact

Posted in Scrutinizer on July 6th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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Did you know that Scrutinizer 6.05 has a custom portal that can be configured to show your company logo and also any message you would like to convey?

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Flow Analytics P2P Monitor serves up humble pie

Posted in NetFlow Analyzer, Network Health Report, Network Problem Resolution, Network Traffic Monitor, Scrutinizer on June 29th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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A common problem for network administrators is when end users get in the habit of blaming the network for slowness on their workstations. For this reason it’s important for network administrators to not only prove, but sometimes disprove, issues with the network. Sometimes the issue is a combination of both.

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Scrutinizer takes the challenge out of autonomous system monitoring

Posted in NetFlow, NetFlow Analyzer, Network Traffic Monitor, Scrutinizer on June 22nd, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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Scrutinizer can present network traffic data in a number of different ways, including showing the amount and type of traffic that is flowing through an autonomous system (or AS).

An autonomous system is a collection of connected Internet Protocol routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators, and presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.

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Plixer hires new ace developer

Posted in IT News, Scrutinizer, WebNM on June 15th, 2009 by Raul J Duran
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We’ve been working harder than ever on the new Plixer release of Scrutinizer v.7. We have set the bar really high with some aggressive goals. To help out with our monumental tasks, we’ve hired a consultant. She comes highly recommended and has a skill set and work ethic to match the rest of the Plixer development team.

I’ve shadowed this extremely talented programmer to try to get insight into how she is going to help us improve our cutting edge network monitoring applications.

Meet our newest team member: Liliana Duran.

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