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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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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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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Cisco Medianet Network Performance Monitoring, we’ve been hearing a lot about this lately.

So how do you know if your router supports it?

The quickest way to find out if a router meets the requirements is to check the Cisco Feature Navigator.  Filter on “performance monitor”, then add the “Performance Monitor (Phase 1)” feature and click Continue.

This will allow you to choose your device to further investigate.  You are given a list of IOS versions that support this feature and the memory/flash required to run it.

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Joanne Ghidoni
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A few employees here work remotely and use VoIP when connecting to the PBX here at corporate. We recently upgraded the router of one of the employees who works from home to Cisco IOS v15.1.(3)T to take advantage of the Cisco Performance Monitoring NetFlow exports.

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Michael Patterson
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How dedicated is your company to using VoIP? Do you utilize remote employees who use VoIP or Video conferencing? Do you have any way to see exactly why your having choppy or low quality calls/videos? Everybody wants to have the best QoS for their calls or at the very least know why they don’t. With a VoIP Netflow Monitoring tool you are able to reactively monitor:

• Jitter
• Packet Loss
• Latency
• Round Trip Time (RTT)

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Jimmy Wendler

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Plixer International announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer a winner of the 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the IT Software and Services (New or Upgrade version) category.

These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners from all over the world were honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 during the 6th annual dinner and presentations.

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Are you thinking about migrating to Flexible NetFlow (aka FnF)?   If you are, you are probably aware that FnF brings the following to NetFlow:

• NetFlow NBAR for application recognition
• Performance Monitoring “Cisco Medianet”
• Layer 2 information
• Export to unlimited collectors
• Much more…..

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Joanne Ghidoni
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