OpenFlow and NetFlow are two completely different concepts. OpenFlow controls how packets are forwarded through network switches, and Netflow collects IP traffic information. It’s easy to think of the two as being related because both words contain the suffix “flow”.  This post should provide some clarity on the nature of each one of these two protocols. Read more »

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Now that VMware vSphere ESX v5.1 supports IPFIX you may be wondering how to configure it; in fact, today I’m going to show you just that in a couple easy steps. VMware IPFIX support is a very exciting feature that will help with performance monitoring and can make virtual network management a lot easier to accomplish. Monitoring virtual servers has never been easier! Read more »

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IPFIX is taking the world by storm!  Taking it beyond the standard network traffic from routers and switches, you can now get traditional message formats such as syslogs, Microsoft event logs, SNMP traps and more exported as IPFIX!!! And with our IPFIX collector, reporting on this unified message format is similar to monitoring network traffic.

Do you want quick and easy access to Syslog reporting?  What better solution than your NetFlow and IPFIX reporting solution?  With IPFIXify, you can export syslogs as IPFIX records.  Then using Scrutinizer Flow Analyzer as your flow reporting solution, you can then store, report on, correlate and analyze all of those logs.  Check out this list of reports available for Syslog reporting!

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The Flame threat is basically a virtual, digitized spy tool that does what a human spy would do: recording phone calls, snapping photos, and siphoning information.  Often times this traffic pattern to the internet is initiated by the infected host and ultimately slides right by even next generation firewalls.  How can it be detected?

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Are you looking for detailed insight into your SonicWALL VPNs?  With IPFIX reporting from Scrutinizer Flow Analyzer, you can get some really cool SonicWALL VPN Utilization reports.

The VPN reporting available allows you to see both the VPN tunnel bandwidth utilization and also report on the network traffic within the VPN tunnels.  This takes your network monitoring capabilities to exciting new levels.

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Now that you know AdTran supports NetFlow, you need an AdTran NetFlow Analyzer. With the implementation of the Integrated Traffic Monitoring feature in AOS products, AdTran takes network traffic monitoring to a new level. You just need the right NetFlow reporting tool.

Our NetFlow application provides an incredibly high level of AdTran NetVanta NetFlow data analysis capability. It allows you to: Read more »

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Cisco ASR NetFlow support for NAT can be found in the latest release of our NetFlow Analyzer but, only via Flow View because the export lacks bytes. Monitoring NAT with NetFlow is available in four different reports in the Palo Alto NetFlow exports.  One of which is shown below.

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On my way to the airport tomorrow headed for London and CiscoLive 2012 to show off Scrutinizer v9 and our new video monitoring (e.g. Webex) traffic reporting.  You will find updates on the plixer facebook wall. This new version brings several new NetFlow reports:

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It is nice to see calls on Juniper IPFIX support start to roll in. The other day I had a customer call in who was seeing unexpected DSCP values in our netflow network traffic analyzer, many of them were “23456”. This raised the question whether somehow the traffic analysis tool was not deciphering AS numbers correctly or whether it was a Juniper IPFIX problem.

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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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