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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Most companies are taking the position that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is allowing businesses to gain more productivity from their work force. Because of this, Mobile Workers are on the rise and it is creating a new IT challenge. “Certain bring-your-own-device strategies present certain security risks: the introduction of mobile malware onto a hospital network, for example,” said Lynne Dunbrack, IDC Health Insights program director.     Some hospitals embracing BYOD, are restricting BYOD devices to Internet access only. Why? Read more »

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It’s no secret the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) revolution is in full swing, and you need to know how to monitor iPAD HD traffic on your corporate network. Long gone are the days where network administrators can police employees based solely on their desktop computer traffic. Cubicles are filled with 4 generations of iPhones, a variety of new e-readers, and now the new iPad HD / iPad 3.  BYOD network traffic analysis is of paramount importance.

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It has been exactly two years since I wrote the blog on how the Internet is overloaded.  Pressure continues to rise but, we haven’t had the black outs that some had predicted. If you search the web, you can find several articles and blogs on this topic. A few of these posts reference Nemertes who has since taken the post down.

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As network administrators are looking to use NetFlow for more visibility on their network, they often have to decide what NetFlow version they need enabled on routers/switches.  Several times, these past few weeks, I was asked the difference between NetFlow v5 and v9. That is why in this blog, I intend to give you just enough information to make your choice between the two versions quick and easy, especially if you are using our NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer. Read more »

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I recently learned that Cisco is planning to have integration with DPI (Deep Packet Inspection).  What does this mean to your NetFlow collector and NetFlow Analyzer?  More good stuff!

Seriously, it means more information on the applications on your network.  What good is a NetFlow Reporting tool that only tells you the application is ‘HTTP’ (i.e. port 80)?  Many applications today are using port 80 and a whole slew of others use random ports. This is a real problem for NetFlow monitoring tools because there often isn’t enough information in the traditional NetFlow v5 tuple to determine the actual application (e.g. skype, BitTorrent, H.323, GoToMeeting, etc.).  It has to be done by the hardware or software that exports the IPFIX or NetFlow information. Read more »

I’m at Cisco Live 2011 this week Showing off Scrutinizer v8.5 with JimmyD. It’s great to see Cisco showing off the new Catalyst 4948E NetFlow-Lite ‘NFlite’ exports using Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer and the nprobe.

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Plixer International is heading to London for next week’s Cisco Live 2011 tradeshow.  While I am personally not attending (and am only slightly bitter about it), I’m excited that Plixer will be able to showcase Scrutinizer 8.5, the most recent version of our NetFlow and sFlow analysis software suite.

Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Cisco Live is an annual communications conference for networkers, IT managers, developers, and service providers.  Our Product Manager and our International Sales Manager will occupy Booth E9 of the Cisco Live World of Solutions exhibition from February 1st through February 3rd. Read more »

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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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In this blog I want to talk about how to configure SSL for our NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer web authentication.  The standard procedure to configuring SSL for HTTPS redirection has three basic steps.

1. Generating SSL files.
2. Installing a CA signed certificate.
3. Configuring Apache to use SSL.

A. GENERATING SSL FILES

Three files are generated as a result of this process: the private key(.key), the Certificate Signing Request (.csr), and the public key or SSL certificate (crt). The private key contains encrypted information that identifies an institution or company. The Certificate Signing request contains the information found in the private key and a public key to be signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). Read more »

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