SonicWALL OEMs Plixer’s Scrutinizer for NetFlow and IPFIX Reporting and lands a top spot in the Gartner Magic Quadrant under the Unified Threat Management (UTM) category.
JamesFor a 30 day Trial of Scrutinizer, Click Here to Download!
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
Not long ago, Rich Tehrani from TMCnet sat down to interview our very own Product Manager Michael Patterson to talk NetFlow, IPFIX and the recent influx of mobile devices on corporate networks around the world. Mike is a technology entrepreneur who has spent the last 15 years chasing his passion of designing and implementing high value products that help manage networks, large and small. His projects include Read more »
BrianFor a 30 day Trial of Scrutinizer, Click Here to Download!
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
Do you remember exactly what you were doing July 26th? If you were at Plixer’s FlowFest 2011 you were eating fresh Maine lobster after a successful day of advanced NetFlow training!
What’s that you say? You were cleaning the garage instead? If you weren’t able to attend this year, no worries, there’s always next year! FlowFest is a premiere NetFlow training event, hosted annually in the beautiful coastal town of Wells, Maine. (Thanks to everyone for the pictures!)
MattVisit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
What do IPv6 Day and Y2K have in common? I’ll break it down for you real simple: a lot of stuff happened, but most of us never noticed. Now, let me explain in detail…
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) is the newest technology that has everyone stirring for solutions to problems that hadn’t yet been fully realized. Not until IPv6 day, that is. As digital consumers, we need our information to be retrieved faster than ever, and all connectivity is expected to be warp speed. The current IPv4 exhaustion crisis is eerily similar to Y2K in that the eventual outcome was expected to go two different ways: either nothing will happen or complete Armageddon will ensue. But there’s also a fundamental difference: we’re not nearly as worked up about IPv4 exhaustion as we were about Y2K ahead of the fact.
Each IPV4-to-IPV6 and IPV6-to-IPV4 conversion adds an extra “hop” and requires a large amount of computing power to process information about who you are trying to talk to, and who you are known by on the other end. The coexistence of both protocols seems to be consistent with a family traveling on vacation; precious vacation time is wasted by the family (IPv4) driving to the airport, then transferring to a plane (IPv6), in an overall attempt to save time in the air. In the fastest scenario possible, you wouldn’t want to use two means of transportation, instead opting to use your private plane in the back yard (IPv6).
MattVisit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
- What will be the main use for NetFlow?- Is real-time reporting or historical reporting more important?- Is it traffic analysis including application and user monitoring?- How much are you willing to pay for the product?- Do your switches/routers support NetFlow?- Is scalability a concern?
Visit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
In this blog I want to talk about how to configure SSL for our NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer web authentication. The standard procedure to configuring SSL for HTTPS redirection has three basic steps.
A. GENERATING SSL FILES
Three files are generated as a result of this process: the private key(.key), the Certificate Signing Request (.csr), and the public key or SSL certificate (crt). The private key contains encrypted information that identifies an institution or company. The Certificate Signing request contains the information found in the private key and a public key to be signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). Read more »
Visit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
To avoid network headaches this holiday season: Read more »
Visit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
One of the highlights of my job is being able to work with people from all over the world. Calls from China, GotoMeetings with Norway and video conferencing with the UK are all day to day activities for me. This month is a little different. Yesterday was the first day of my world wind trip to London, Dublin and Paris.
For a 30 day Trial of Scrutinizer, Click Here to Download!
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
There is no doubt that flow technology is revolutionizing network monitoring. In this NetFlow/J-Flow/IPFIX/sFlow era, there is no need to settle with only knowing utilizations on the network. Besides, little analysis can be done in monitoring bandwidth only anyways.
Scott wrote a blog earlier that made a valid point: “A Network Administrator’s abilities are only as good as his awareness of what happens on his network.” In harmony with that statement, it’s beneficial to have useful tools to be able to collect that traffic information.
Recently, I learned that J-Flow is supported for the Juniper SRX series Gateways. I thought this might be good information for people who want to start monitoring flows on this type of device, especially our NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer users, since it can also process J-Flow packets. Below are some sample commands taken from Juniper’s Knowledge Base which walks you through your J-Flow configuration. Read more »
Visit our website to download a 30 day trial of Scrutinizer
Join the NetFlow Developments group on LinkedIn.
Has your company adopted a social media policy yet? Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are increasingly being considered threats for at least a couple big reasons: security risks and traffic risks.
Use of social medias at work can pose security risks to the company’s intellectual property through an employee’s personal communication habits. On occasion, attackers assume the identity of someone who hasn’t actually joined sites like facebook. Then the attacker determines who this person’s friends or schoolmates are and sends friend requests. Once befriended, the attacker has personal information of users and can make targeted attacks. Social engineering tactics like this can be very effective, especially when they get users to start sharing URLs leading to malicious sites or spoofs of actual businesses such as your local bank. In some countries, criminals are not banned from using sites like facebook when they are incarcerated, as The Washington Times recently reported.
Use of social medias at work can also pose network traffic problems for the company. Read more »
