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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Cisco Performance Routing isn’t your grandfather’s routing. Cisco Performance routing (PfR for short) considers a particular path’s traffic characteristics when determining the best path for the conversation. Imagine being able to use actual delay, packet loss, MOS, jitter and more to give your router a better idea of the traffic conditions. With that data it can make a smart decision on how to route the conversation traffic. Add to that the ability to report on this with something simple like Netflow and you have solution that sounds to good to be true. Well, it isn’t!

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In this webcast “The Future of Advanced NetFlow: New Elements, End-To-End Visibility and Network Security Threats,” Michael Patterson the co-founder of Plixer will cover how the latest exports and elements from Cisco, SonicWALL, Palo Alto Networks and others. The session covers leveraging NetFlow and IPFIX data to detect network threats, improve cloud-based services and reclaim bandwidth consumed by mobile devices on the network. See the plixer study press release for complete details.

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NetFlow VoIP Monitoring often requires keeping track of QoS or DSCP values. Here are a few statistics that should be gathered when performing network traffic monitoring with Flexible NetFlow.

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On my way to the airport tomorrow headed for London and CiscoLive 2012 to show off Scrutinizer v9 and our new video monitoring (e.g. Webex) traffic reporting.  You will find updates on the plixer facebook wall. This new version brings several new NetFlow reports:

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Monitoring Cisco Telepresence with NetFlow or in this case Flexible NetFlow is a straight forward process if you have to important factors in place.

1. Configure the Cisco performance reporting. This gets the router to start monitoring Cisco Telepresence.  To do this, the configuration of the router must include certain commands.  Contact us for the command set.
2. Monitoring Telepresence requires a top notch Cisco Performance Reporting tool.

 

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As we approach the end of 2011, I’d like to take this time to recap some major advances in NetFlow & IPFIX reporting.

Several notable NetFlow developments for 2011 from Cisco Networks are:

• Medianet Network Performance Monitoring
• Cisco TrustSec (CTS) NetFlow support
• Cisco Smart Logging and Telemetry (SLT)

 
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Joanne Ghidoni
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What is packet loss and how do I troubleshoot packet loss with NetFlow and IPFIX? I remember when I was growing up we had a satellite connection for our television and when we would get a big snow storm while watching a movie the quality would become so poor that the movie would look like the image in this post and the movie would become unwatchable. We can attribute the poor video quality to network packet loss, as it’s hard to send network traffic through a blizzard.

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A few Flexible NetFlow tips and tricks could give you a new network traffic analysis perspective! Flexible Netflow is the latest improvement to the Cisco IOS Netflow technology. Most Cisco articles call it the next generation in flow technology. It “provides enhanced optimization of the network infrastructure, reduces costs, and improves capacity planning and security detection beyond other flow based technologies available today.” Here are a few great things that Flexible NetFlow can bring to the table.

A. Its configurable flow information allows the user to perform customized traffic identification and the ability to focus and monitor specific network behavior. This feature is key to network infrustrature optimization. For example, when there is high flow volume, the user can choose to enable flow sampling or export only certain traffic information.

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Did you know that you can find quality of service (QoS) information in NetFlow? Knowing what quality of service your crucial network traffic gets can either make or break an efficient infrastructure. Due to its importance, certain traffic may be given a higher priority. Crucial business applications, for example, need higher priority than normal traffic, while social networks can receive low priority. Is there a way to easily find this information? Absolutely! Read more »

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