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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Michael Patterson
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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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Joanne Ghidoni
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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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Paul Dube

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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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Michael Patterson
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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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Using NetFlow to Monitor Google+ traffic is an idea that instantly came to me today. Let’s face it, there’s a new social media player in town: Google+, and from the looks of it, it is here to stay. Google+ is the latest thing in sharing photos, create circles, and start huddles and hangouts. So with yet another social platform out there you’re asking yourself, “How do I know if my employees are going to Google+? Is there a way to monitor Google+ Network traffic?” Yes, there is! With NetFlow or IPFIX Reporting! Read more »

Jimmy Wendler

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Today I am going to explain how to activate your Maipu router IPFIX.  You may ask, “Why would I want to export IPFIX?” Thats a great question, because you want to be able to monitor all the traffic passing through your Maipu router so you can report on it.

To review, IPFIX stands for ‘IP Flow Information Export’. Some companies like to rename their implementation of NetFlow and IPFIX but Maipu keeps it simple and simply calls it IPFIX. IPFIX is just like NetFlow v9 but with added support. IPFIX allows vendors to export unique vendor IDs so they can stick proprietary information in the flows and export anything they want.

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Jimmy Wendler

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Today let’s focus on the ERS 8600 IPFIX configuration. Avaya IPFIX exports: Source IP, Destination IP, Protocol Type, Source protocol port, Destination protocol port, Type-of-service byte, Byte/packet count, Ingress VLAN ID, Ingress port and observation point (VLAN or port). Now supposed you wanted to configure an 8600 to export flows to our IPFIX collector:

1. Avaya IPFIX is ingress only, therefore, make sure to enable flow exports on all the physical interfaces. In “NetFlow version 9: egress vs. ingress“, Mike Patterson explains why the practice is necessary in this particular scenario.

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In Part 1 I talked about how to configure your SonicWALL NetFlow / IPFIX exporting firewall to properly send NetFlow to a 3rd party NetFlow Reporting tool.  Now I want to share with you the information that you can report on with that 3^rd party NetFlow collector. All of this comes with SonicWALL using IPFIX, the proposed standard in NetFlow technology.

Example of reports on SonicWALL IPFIX exports:

• Application Conversations (App Conv)
• Application
• Intrusions
• Spyware
• URLs
• Users
• Viruses

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Jimmy Wendler

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