Good news, with the 7.4 release, the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller will now start exporting Netflow v9 entries.  Together with the Cisco Application Visibility & Control innovation, the Cisco Wireless NetFlow support includes features such as:

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IT professionals have been looking for better ways to monitor and store firewall logs for years. Properly handled, firewall events can give insight into APTs, DoS attacks, firewall rule planning and misconfigurations, policy violations, and much more. To date, Syslog has been the go-to mechanism for access to firewall log info. It’s universally supported by the firewall community, easy to understand, and it’s quick to implement on both the firewall as well as the syslog analyzer.

Unfortunately syslog is resource intensive on both the firewall and the log analyzer. It’s largely unstructured, requires string pattern matching, and the exact format and fields vary from one firewall to the next. How often do you turn on full “Accept” and “Deny” logging for every rule? Sure you can and yes it’s valuable but the amount of syslog created is tremendous.

Enter NetFlow and IPFIX…

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Palo Alto Networks NetFlow support is now available and with the latest version of our NetFlow monitoring solution you can get NAT and also application reporting for this firewall.

Today I’ll be providing step by step instructions on how to configure NetFlow for this device, and also show an example of the extended NetFlow reporting available.

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The most advanced Flow technologies today come in the form of (FnF) Flexible NetFlow Reporting and IPFIX Reporting.  Some vendors have renamed these technologies to AppFlow, Cascade Flow, J-Flow and NetStream, however they are usually a near copy of either NetFlow or IPFIX.

List of Next Gen NetFlow / IPFIX Reporting Features

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