A customer called in the other day after they had set up a map in Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer.  They had some blank connections to devices that didn’t support NetFlow and they were asking if there was anything they could do to make the map more useful for these devices. I asked them if they used our SNMP trender Denika, and they said, “Yes.” So, we set up the integration with Denika and Scrutinizer, then started configuring Denika connections on their Scrutinizer Map.

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Lately, I’ve been getting more familiar with different backup procedures and it made me want to update everyone on our current recommended Scrutinizer backup procedure. Read more »

Consider this – customer calls in and says that a workstation on his network was scanning their entire corporate network and how can he be alerted on this type of behavior? The behavior wasn’t exactly malicious, but rather that someone had installed an inventory application on their desktop  which scanned their entire network with snmp scans.

So, no, it wasn’t malicious activity, but that sort of network monitoring also was not authorized for that individual on their network.

Using Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer, he asked how he could detect that sort of network traffic.
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The question is, how do you integrate the network management application that you have been using forever and the NetFlow traffic monitoring application data that you have recently installed?  NetFlow collection, as we have all learned these last few years, provides more and more insight into not just how much network traffic you have, but what that traffic is.

So we need to be able to seamlessly move from one application to the other.  If your NetFlow traffic analyzer is Scrutinizer version 7, then the following information should be of great interest to you.
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Over the past couple months, I’ve posted a series of blogs that help highlight some of Scrutinizer’s best features, its strengths and weaknesses and why it might be worth your time in evaluating.

I’d like to devote this blog to the effort of making an easy to read article that might assist you in making an informed decision about the many networking monitoring tools available. Let us know if you have any questions.

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In today’s information technology world, security is an increasingly important topic and having the right tools for the job is utterly necessary. So, you ask yourself, how can a NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool help you? Scrutinizer gives you the ability to monitor all the traffic on your network to identify IP addresses, bandwidth and port usage, possible threats, and any IPFIX or Flexible NetFlow custom fields, but what if you could go even deeper?

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In the past we’ve had a lot of customers who’ve asked for LDAP authentication for user accounts and it’s now available with the release of Scrutinizer v7.6. To simplify the process we’ve created an LDAP wizard to help guide you through the setup.

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Working in technical support I get asked a lot, “I enabled NetFlow on my router, why don’t I see outbound traffic?” This is because NetFlow version 5 only supports ingress flow monitoring and they don’t have NetFlow enabled on all interfaces. In NetFlow v5 outbound traffic is calculated by the idea what goes in must go out (or stop at the router) so, it’s necessary that all interfaces are monitoring ingress traffic to get an accurate representation of outgoing traffic. So, if ingress monitoring has been working great all along why enable egress monitoring?

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You’ve installed Scrutinizer only to find out that your network hardware doesn’t support NetFlow or sFlow; what now? If you’re in this situation then you’ve come to the right place. I’ve put together a guide on how to configure a Windows nProbe to send NetFlow v5 to your favorite NetFlow collector and analyzer.

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With today’s blog, I want to do two things for my customers: the first being to remind you that any custom report filters you create can be imported into MyView.

Secondly, once you import that report into MyView, how to hack the bejeezus out of it to get what display you’d like.

Let me explain…

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