Author: Joanne Ghidoni

Joanne is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Plixer. She has also held positions as Technical Support Engineer and Sales Engineer since joining Plixer in 2005. Prior to joining Plixer, Joanne has had numerous positions in the IT field, including data entry, computer operator, PC coordinator and support, mainframe programmer, and also Technical Support and web programmer at Cabletron Systems. In her spare time, Joanne enjoys traveling, always seeking out new and interesting places to visit.

Configuration

Cisco Catalyst 3850 NetFlow configuration

04.07.15 - Joanne Ghidoni

We have received numerous requests for assistance with the Cisco Catalyst 3850 NetFlow configuration recently, and in researching this particular configuration, uncovered a licensing requirement. One of the customers that we worked with had the LAN base license level. NetFlow exports are not supported for that licensing level, rather, an IP base license level is included in the Cisco 3850 NetFlow requirements.

Configuration

Avaya IPFIX Support

02.11.15 - Joanne Ghidoni

If you’ve been looking for Avaya IPFIX support on our Configuring NetFlow, IPFIX & sFlow page and are coming up empty, it’s because it was originally listed as Nortel ERS 5500 & 8600 series routers.

Configuration

Cisco Performance Monitoring NetFlow config

12.31.14 - Joanne Ghidoni

We’ve been discussing Cisco AVC NetFlow reporting a lot lately, but what if you’re not yet at the latest Cisco IOS revisions? If you have IOS 15.1(3), but not 15.1(4), no worries, Cisco Performance Monitoring NetFlow reporting can still provide some valuable performance metrics reporting for you.

NetFlow Reporting

NetFlow Report Integration

12.03.14 - Joanne Ghidoni

We frequently receive inquiries regarding the availability of APIs (Application Programming Interface) for our Advanced NetFlow reporting solution, so I’m going to expand upon a subject that I touched on several months ago. NetFlow report integration is fully available, with all of its flexibility, via URLs with our Advanced NetFlow reporting solution and today I’ll show you just how flexible that really is.

Configuration

Flexible NetFlow: NBAR NetFlow configuration

10.22.14 - Joanne Ghidoni

Did you ever consider that using Flexible NetFlow, specifically an NBAR NetFlow configuration, could provide another aspect of network security for you?

Exporting NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition) in Flexible NetFlow records provides the opportunity for deep packet inspection visibility in NetFlow reporting. Once you have that visibility, you’re just a half step away from also using that information for detecting unwanted traffic on your network.