Many Network Management Solutions on the market lack support for sFlow, NetFlow and IPFIX reporting and threat detection.  If you are looking for EM7 NetFlow support, our NetFlow solution easily integrates with EM7 from ScienceLogic and we do it in 3 ways to provide the best network traffic monitoring solution.
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A neat upgrade in VMwares’s vDS 5.1(vSphere) is the introduction of IPFIX.  While ESX has supported NetFlow for a long time now; with version 5.1 they have joined the long list of vendors who support IPFIX. It is a more advanced and flexible protocol that enables users to define the flow records that can be collected at the VDS and sent across to a collector.  The following are some key attributes of the protocol:

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Alcatel-Lucent’s Application-Assured Virtual Private Network (AA-VPN) technology includes IPFIX support on the SR7750 (Service Router) and the 7450 ESS (Ethernet Service Switch).  They claim that this decision is “transforming a service provider’s business service delivery infrastructure from being service-aware to being application-aware”.  We couldn’t agree more.  In this post I dug into their documentation a bit to find out more about the new SR7750 IPFIX support.

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Are you looking for detailed insight into your SonicWALL VPNs?  With IPFIX reporting from Scrutinizer Flow Analyzer, you can get some really cool SonicWALL VPN Utilization reports.

The VPN reporting available allows you to see both the VPN tunnel bandwidth utilization and also report on the network traffic within the VPN tunnels.  This takes your network monitoring capabilities to exciting new levels.

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The most advanced Flow technologies today come in the form of (FnF) Flexible NetFlow Reporting and IPFIX Reporting.  Some vendors have renamed these technologies to AppFlow, Cascade Flow, J-Flow and NetStream, however they are usually a near copy of either NetFlow or IPFIX.

List of Next Gen NetFlow / IPFIX Reporting Features

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As we approach the end of 2011, I’d like to take this time to recap some major advances in NetFlow & IPFIX reporting.

Several notable NetFlow developments for 2011 from Cisco Networks are:

• Medianet Network Performance Monitoring
• Cisco TrustSec (CTS) NetFlow support
• Cisco Smart Logging and Telemetry (SLT)

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Today I’m going to discuss how to run some of the common reports in our NetFlow and IPFIX analyzer. Our NetFlow and IPFIX analyzer has the ability to report on all versions of NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX and everything in between. If you’re new to the product, you might want to check out Cisco’s Introduction to NetFlow our NetFlow configuration guides to help you get started.

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The network acceptable use policy is an issue that has been discussed in just about every HR department.  It’s a serious subject that must be dealt with as ignoring the issue can lead to internet abuse.

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Our IPFIX collector has seen it all and helping other NetFlow vendors keeps us on our toes. One of the biggest things we encourage companies to do is to avoid NetFlow v9 for anything that isn’t EXACTLY like Cisco. If the vendor wants to export URLs or something unique that Cisco doesn’t export in NetFlow yet, we recommend using IPFIX.

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Using Citrix AppFlow, IPFIX or Flexible NetFlow to Monitor Social Media traffic is available today but, it shouldn’t necessarily be your company’s deterrent strategy. In fact, you may not want to stop the use of social media during work hours however, you may want your network monitoring solution to help you determine how much bandwidth social media consumes and who the top people consuming bandwidth with social media are.  After all, social media is not the problem.  Bad behavior might be.

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