How to setup Application Groups

Posted in NetFlow on October 21st, 2009 by mike@plixer.com
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Ever wonder what ports an application or process is using on the server?  Here is a useful trick that you can in turn use to setup application groups in your NetFlow collector.

If you want to find out what application is attached to a particular port on a server, you can run: netstat –nbt Read more »

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How do I find Facebook traffic on my network? Use Scrutinizer v7 and NetFlow to help.

Posted in NetFlow, Scrutinizer on September 4th, 2009 by nathanh
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Two Special Cause invitations, two invites to play some Mobster game, two for the Pathword game and enough Farkle invitations to choke a pig.

This is what my Facebook account looks like, and honestly, I don’t really even use it.

But geez, if you want to be a Pirate,  Mobster, Vampire, Superhero or a Farmer who has a green mohawk that owns a pink tractor (Thanks Joanne)… then Facebook is your own world within a world. Take a look at this demographic that I’ve posted here:

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NetFlow IP Groups idea in Scrutinizer v7

Posted in NetFlow, NetFlow Analyzer, Network Traffic Monitor, Scrutinizer, sFlow on May 21st, 2009 by mike@plixer.com
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I’m playing with Application Groups in Scrutinizer v7  where you can define ranges of ports and IP addresses to define applications.  Seems I can also use it for IP Grouping:

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Notice the above is a bi-direction trend which can be more useful than pie charts, but we do both:

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The above of course is support for Cisco NetFlow, sFlow, IP FIX, jflow, etc.  It’s all network traffic monitoring using ‘flows’.

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