PfSense NetFlow Export

Posted in netflow monitor on June 20th, 2012 by Jimmy W
PfSense NetFlow Export

Today I will show you how to configure PfSense NetFlow export on one of the more popular open source firewalls.

It is a great firewall that includes a long list of related features, as well as a package system that allows for further expandability. One of the many packages available is pfflowd, which converts OpenBSD PF status messages into Cisco NetFlow datagrams. This allows you export it to an external collector and gives historical reporting of your network activity. Read more »

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Cisco Performance Agent: NetFlow Reporting and Cisco NAM

Posted in netflow monitor, Performance Agent on April 12th, 2012 by Ryan
Cisco Performance Agent: NetFlow Reporting and Cisco NAM

Cisco Performance Agent is another technology that can be exported with Flexible NetFlow. Cisco Performance Agent provides visibility into branch-office applications and network performance. It collects application response time metrics to identify performance degradation across multiple network links:

  • Transaction time (TT)
  • Monitoring the WAN latency using the server-network-delay (SND) metric
  • Monitoring the LAN latency using the client-network-delay (CND) metric
  • Monitoring the server processing time using the application-delay (AD) metric

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