Sometimes you see a name flash across your screen that draws your attention.  A few months ago I had one that did just that. When I decided to visit London I knew it was an attraction that I needed to see.

I use the term “amateur horticulturist” loosely when describing one of my hobbies. I am still in the beginning steps of building a self-contained, hydroponic garden and fish farm powered by Arduino. By “beginning steps” I mean that I have a lot of bookmarks and interesting YouTube videos.

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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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Is this your Network Control Center?

Wouldn’t it be nice to see all of your Top Interfaces, from all of your Network Analysis Tools on a single interface? If the answer to that question is YES, then Plixer International has the solution that you have been looking for.

Using the latest release of our NetFlow and sFlow Analysis Tool, you can configure a Central Interface to see multiple Scrutinizer servers in a single interface.

It is as easy as creating and then adding a custom gadget to your MyView screen.

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At Plixer International’s Technical Support desk we often take calls in support of our NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool that deal with disk space and disk performance issues. In the world of NetFlow and sFlow collector appliances, the name of the game is to have sufficient available disk space and minimize disk I/O. Read more »

SUNY Geneseo Network Manager Rick Coloccia found that analyzing Cisco NetFlow packets was the key to network traffic management and monitoring internet use and abuse.

Using Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer, he was able to respond to the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) allegations of students illegally downloading or sharing of music.
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We had a large carrier call us the other day with a messed up interface names issue in Scrutinizer.  The customer was exporting cflowd (NetFlow v5) from an Alcatel-Lucent SR 7750 running TMOS-C-5.0.R21.  Read more »

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Our development team has been working hard and we are pleased to announce the release of Plixer Tools 8.0.0. What’s Plixer Tools you ask? We’ve combined Denika, Logalot, WebNM, and Flowalyzer into a single installer to provide better integration with Scrutinizer.

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Hello everybody! My name is Paul Dube and I have recently graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a degree in Computer Science and joined the support team here at Plixer International. Over the course of the past few weeks I’ve been trying to learn everything there is to know about Scrutinizer, NetFlow, sFlow and network traffic analysis. During this process I’ve come across a lot of great resources that I would like to consolidate into one place to help you get started.
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When was the last time you used a Network General Sniffer™?  Do you remember the Matrix view? Read more »

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Thinking outside of the box can produce some innovative ideas.

While the network maps in Scrutinizer can make the traffic flow on your network easier to visualize and congested links quicker to spot, adding more visual definition to your maps will make them more user friendly and understandable by more members of your organization.

So how do you spice up your NetFlow data and breathe some life into your network utilization maps? Try combining a tool created for home design with a network monitoring tool to create incredible network maps.

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