One of the challenges that we sometimes face when integrating 3rd party applications within our NetFlow analysis tool is that they work until the 3rd party vendor decides to change something…

With that in mind, I wanted to let our customer base know that as of a couple days ago, Google made some changes to the way that they handle API keys. More specifically, any geocoding requests that are made from 3rd party vendors are required to pass an API key.

What does that mean for us?

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Guys like Stephen Covey keep me inspired.  Have you read his book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People“.  I thought it was great.  It lead me to believe that it was high time someone blogged about what sets NetFlow and sFlow reporting tools apart: Read more »

Michael Patterson
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A lot of our blogs talk about how to identify problems with Cisco NetFlow or to optimize network performance by using our tools. This blog post isn’t about Google maps in the up and coming version of Scrutinizer v7. It’s about an issue with Google maps and Linux that I have seen a few times with a few of our customers. The problem is that some customers cannot view the Google map configured in our NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer.
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NetFlow monitoring applications are like cars. It’s important to have a good engine and a strong body to make sure it can get you to where you need to go and can stand the test of time. But if the steering wheel is in the wrong place and the clutch keeps dying every 2,000 miles, then the best engine in the world won’t matter. Like a top of the line BMW, our goal is to provide the best of both worlds; a strong, durable core, with aesthetics that make using our NetFlow analysis software an enjoyable experience.

Last week you read about five new features set to be included in the upcoming release of Scrutinizer version 7. Nathan got our blog preview series started by talking about, encryption exclusions, more flows, collector improvements, group permissions for users and proxy server configuration. This week, I have five more new features for you that are certain to whet your appetite for more network traffic analysis goodness from Scrutinizer v7.

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I’ve been playing around with Scrutinizer v7 in the lab a lot lately.  I thought I’d leak some of what is to come (see the sneak peek of Scrutinizer v7 we gave on February 20 in this blog post).  Please forgive me for being a bit vague as we need to be careful.  This version is a big rewrite of the front end to take advantage of AJAX and speeding up the interface to be more instant when rendering results.  This list of new features is considerable.  I can’t announce everything yet but, I’ll leak a few things many of you expect.

Bidirectional Trends
We have expanded a great deal in this version.  InBound / OutBound trends are now available on all reports:

ToS Reports
We have expanded on this to help customers when the tags may have been changed by the router.

Google Maps
I blogged about our improved Google map support here, including saving zoom levels, connections between icons, etc. They are all in v7.

IPv6
We are working on it.  More testing is needed.

Cisco NetFlow v9 Egress Reporting
Wow, can this cause problems for collectors and the statistics the front end renders.  I’ve very proud of the solution our team came up with.  Customers with mixed v5 and v9 environments will really appreciate the benefits.

Flexible NetFlow
We might have something. Who knows? 

Define Application Groups
You can define application groups using an amalgamation of IPs and port ranges.

Alarming and Flow Analytics
Expect to be able to alarm on just about anything.  How you set this up is key.  It needs to be very intuitive and not crush the collector’s performance.  Expect the ability to tweak the engine to your desired needs (i.e. similar to how we do it with Flow Analytics).

Billing for Service Providers
The new architecture will be useful for accurate billing in service provider environments. Our professional services team will kick out exactly what is needed with 100% accuracy on regular intervals into a desired database format.  Improved security and flexibility for service providers is in this version as well.

MyView
Some ideas were taken from iGoogle. We took it to another level with permissions.

Status Tab
More flexibility and I’ll blog later on this.

When When When?
Ever wanted something really bad with anticipation just killing you?  It is still to early to give a date, but Scrutinizer v7 is worth the wait.

Thanks for reading.

Michael Patterson
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I thought some of you might appreciate an update on some of the nifty Google™ mapping features we are working on for Scrutinizer v7.0.   In the next release we have added the features supported in our flash maps:

• Clickable links bring up the top hosts/applications/conversations etc. specific to the connection
• The connections change color based on definable thresholds

Other Google Map features include:

• multiple Google maps
• improved GPS placement for icons
• icons changing color based on the device status across multiple 3rd party applications
• linking to other map applications (e.g. flash maps with Visio backgrounds, WhatsUp Gold, etc.)

Version 7.0 will include many new features.  Improved Google map support is only a fraction of what we are working on.  I’ll leak more later.

Michael Patterson
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