SUNY Geneseo Network Manager Rick Coloccia found that analyzing Cisco NetFlow packets was the key to network traffic management and monitoring internet use and abuse.

Using Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer, he was able to respond to the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) allegations of students illegally downloading or sharing of music.
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The following article, “Scrutinizer Brings Flow Analytics to SMBs“, written by David Diaz, was recently featured on TechCrunchIT.

David points out that with the low initial cost for Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer, it is a very affordable Flow Analytics solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

This flow analysis tool can also be deployed centrally and accessed globally via the web interface.  What this means is that one install of Scrutinizer can provide network management information for your entire network and accessible by everyone on the network management team, regardless of geographical location.

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The holiday’s are nearly upon us, and in the spirit of giving, Mix Master Mitch has graced us with his latest rap video. This time around, Mitch decided to focus on setting up NetFlow on a Cisco Catalyst 6509 switch. Take a look.

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Mix Master Mitch was also kind enough to give Systrax an exclusive interview. It was hard to pull him away from his legion of screaming fans, but he managed to sneak off for a few minutes to give us his insight on his latest creation.

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Plixer International, developers of a market leading NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool set, today released Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer version 7.3, bringing network traffic analysis software to the next level.

With the latest release of their NetFlow analyzer, Plixer has introduced several new report types, including NBAR reports. Cisco’s NBAR technology does deep packet inspection into the traffic moving through the router to identify the applications being used by hosts. For example; H323, Telnet, RTP, Exchange and Skype are identified and exported in NetFlow.

“We feel, and have felt for some time, that Flexible NetFlow has the potential to expand greatly on the level of information that can be reported on by standard NetFlow,” says Plixer CTO, Marc Bilodeau. “With Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer version 7.3, Plixer is leading the pack in not only the adoption of Flexible NetFlow, but in the implementation of its key advantages over other versions of NetFlow.”

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Just the other day, Brad Reese from Network World wrote a nice blog reflecting on the recent announcement of H.P. acquiring 3Com.

With a huge announcement like this, naturally there are a lot of reactions and opinions. This kind of move may impact a lot of people and their current network strategies.

But coming from a NetFlow, sFlow and Netstream vendor perspective, I think this could be good news.

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Expanding your network management options just got more affordable!

Through the Zenoss & Plixer partnership, the Scrutinizer ZenPack for integrating Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer is now available.

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We released another free utility yesterday called Flowalyzer. The Flowalyzer NetFlow & sFlow Tester is a free NetFlow and sFlow Tool Kit for testing and configuring hardware and software.

Flowalyzer can help you troubleshoot hardware from vendors like Cisco and Enterasys, as well as testing the NetFlow collector software, to ensure that both the hardware and software are configured correctly.
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Last week Plixer released version 7.0 of Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer, which is absolutely free. We celebrated by starting a two-part blog series detailing three free and fabulous resources for Cisco NetFlow admins. Today, we talk about the third free resource, plus share with you some of the free tools that your friends at Plixer use often.

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Scrutinizer v7 for NetFlow and sFlow analysis has been released. This new version of our network traffic analysis solution is 100% free. Plixer’s new model is to build a business around the modules:

• Central Interface for Distributed NetFlow collectors
• Flow Analytics for Network Behavior Analysis and archiving of data.
• Service Provider Module for setting up per login permissions to see only certain data.

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Just a few weeks ago we announced that Mix Master Mitch was back in the studio recording a follow up to his hit single “NetFlow Rap.” MMM fans will be excited to know that mixing and final production on the song is finished. Today the IT rap star kicked off shooting for the video and there was no shortage of network traffic analysis rhymes.

To help build the hype of what is sure to be the biggest thing to happen to the Internet since March Madness online video streams, I thought I would give a little peek behind-the-scenes.

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