This weekend I took a break from NetFlow and sFlow network traffic analysis to join the Moxie Outdoor Adventure whitewater rafting crew and take on the Kennebec River rapids.
Paul DubeWith businesses of today relying heavily on internet connectivity for business critical applications, awareness of what’s happening on your network is becoming more important than ever. With NetFlow and sFlow enabled routers and switches, our network analysis tool can be configured to automatically email reports letting you know exactly who or what is using your valuable bandwidth.
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CiscoLIVE is a huge success and the biggest event ever for Cisco and our booth. Look at these numbers.
A customer called in the other day after they had set up a map in Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer. They had some blank connections to devices that didn’t support NetFlow and they were asking if there was anything they could do to make the map more useful for these devices. I asked them if they used our SNMP trender Denika, and they said, “Yes.” So, we set up the integration with Denika and Scrutinizer, then started configuring Denika connections on their Scrutinizer Map.
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Lately, I’ve been getting more familiar with different backup procedures and it made me want to update everyone on our current recommended Scrutinizer backup procedure. Read more »
Flexible NetFlow and IPFIX, being the future of NetFlow, allow network devices to export more than just traditional IP flow statistics such as NetFlow NBAR, website URL’s, network latency, and in this case interface names. Let’s take a look at exporting interfaces names with NetFlow.
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After getting back from Paris, France last year (which was my first international trip), I decided that I would do Rick Steve’s job for half the price. I absolutely loved the experience and envy anyone that could travel on a regular basis. 
I made a personal promise that my next trip was going to be to Ireland. I’ve always wanted to go, so dangit, I was going to go.
Well, I just got back from my trip two weeks ago today and it was really an experience for the books. Between belching volcanoes, airlines losing my bags and Irishmen doing covers of Pearl Jam, it was fantastic-ness in epic proportions.
If you ever wanted to go, do it. Here’s a couple suggestions from me:
The Guinness brewery tour is really fun to check out. Be sure to start your tour in the morning when they open, that way you can already be two (free!) beers into your day by 11am. Don’t judge me, I was on vacation.
Greetings Spiceworks IT managers! Did you know you can integrate our Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool into your Spiceworks IT management desktop?
Today, I’m going to talk about how to integrate Nagios with Scrutinizer. Nagios is an IT infrastructure monitoring tool that helps organizations ensure systems, applications, services and business processes are functioning properly. By integrating Scrutinizer into Nagios network administrators will have the ability to run NetFlow reports on their devices, have Scrutinizer dashlets, and view network usage maps all from one place. You can learn more about Nagios by taking a trip to their website.
In today’s information technology world, security is an increasingly important topic and having the right tools for the job is utterly necessary. So, you ask yourself, how can a NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool help you? Scrutinizer gives you the ability to monitor all the traffic on your network to identify IP addresses, bandwidth and port usage, possible threats, and any IPFIX or Flexible NetFlow custom fields, but what if you could go even deeper?
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