What a year so far!

You know the old saying “Time flies when you’re having fun”? Here at Plixer, our developers are so freakishly passionate about creating the NetFlow architecture of the future, the years seem to pass us by like a blur.

The hard work is really paying off! Not only were we the first company to receive Cisco certification within the Systems Management technology category but, we are proud to announce that last week we won the 2011 Golden Bridge Award for NetFlow innovations!These industry and peer awards from Golden Bridge are the world’s premier business recognition program. This award is a huge accomplishment for such a passionate group of employees. To top it all off, Cisco sent us Medianet T-Shirts!

With Cisco predicting by 2013 91% of all network traffic will be voice/video streams, we’ve been spending a significant amount of time focusing on the development of the many new Cisco Medianet performance monitoring reports. Scrutinizer v9.0 is just around the corner, it will be exciting to get feedback on all of the new reports we have built for Cisco Smart Logging and Telemetry, Cisco TrustSec, Performance Routing, Performance Monitoring and of course all of the new SonicWALL IPFIX support.

What is MediaNet?
Medianet is an intelligent end-to-end network that combines video technologies in the business, home and service provider networks. More than just higher bandwidth, it optimizes video and rich media traffic. Our solution was the first to report on the new metrics Cisco imbedded into Flexible NetFlow templates. Network traffic analysis with the advanced filtering in our NetFlow Management solution is further proof that our software provides the very best in NetFlow reporting. Read more »

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Capturing WoW traffic with NetFlow

This is a question I get asked a lot. How can I tell if my employees are gaming during company hours?  I’m going to explain how you can use NetFlow to determine if there is World of Warcraft traffic on your network. With over 12 million subscribers I figured network administrators would find this information useful.

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We’ve had many requests from people using our NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX analyzer for the ability to view and save reports in PDF format and with our v8.5 release, NetFlow PDF reporting is now available.

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When it comes to high performance databases, taking advantage of a 64-bit system is a must. With the version 8.x release of our NetFlow Traffic Analyzer we have added support for a 64-bit MySQL database.

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Do you use NetFlow for your network traffic monitoring??

If you do, but don’t always see the data the way you need for optimal network traffic analysis, just let us know. Customizing the view of your NetFlow data is the key to getting the most from NetFlow reporting.
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What do these two have in common?  For most people, probably nothing.

But here at Plixer International, the last business day before the Christmas holiday break, it has been customary to set up a game server with the Quake game on it.

Everyone brings some yummy food to share (brownies, meatballs, cheese & crackers, are some of the options), and for a few hours of the day, work takes a back seat to eating and gaming.

Personally, playing Quake isn’t my idea of a good time.  Chasing opponents down dark hallways shooting at them, screams and blood.  Not for me.

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Hello all, we’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how to configure nProbe and what the recommended nProbe configurations are, so I’ve put together some sample nProbe configurations to help setup your Linux nProbe.

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In this day of companies downsizing and more employees working from home to cut office space costs, voice and video traffic over the internet is becoming more prevalent and also critical that it the quality is reliable.

We have several employees who work out of their homes and in an effort to maintain acceptable voice quality, we have configured QoS on their routers.

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In Support it’s common to hear, “I’ve configured my device to export NetFlow, but it’s not showing up in Scrutinizer.” There are a number of reasons that can prevent a NetFlow exporter from showing up in Scrutinizer and I would like to demonstrate, using a packet analysis tool, how to isolate the problem. It’s very likely that if you’re involved with network traffic analysis or administration that you’ve used Wireshark at one point or another and I want to go over some common ways to use Wireshark to analyze your NetFlow traffic.

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I’m proud to announce that we’ve recently released the Scrutinizer Top Interfaces plugin for Spiceworks! Spiceworks is a web based network management solution that has an online community so its users can share ideas, ask questions, and now monitor NetFlow.

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