Recently some customers questioned if we provide APCON netflow support. APCON, a company headquartered near Portland, OR, develops innovative, scalable technology solutions to enhance network monitoring, support IT traffic analysis, and streamline IT network management and security. They saw that NetFlow is traditionally generated by routers and switches at key locations across the network. There are disadvantages to this approach, however, including the performance impact on key production network routers/switches, the use of network bandwidth to transmit NetFlow records, and the added complexity of collecting records from many sources across the network. Read more
Category: Advanced NetFlow Reporting
Disaster Recovery Monitoring
Posted on - by Jake
A question that I have been getting a lot recently is, “how can someone better their disaster recovery monitoring”. Tools that utilize SNMP are going to assist you in discovering your backup links are being saturated (or have traffic) but are not going to be very useful in finding out what end system or process is taking up the bandwidth. IPFIX/NetFlow will help document our backup procedures, failover, and link saturation, allowing us to feel comfortable in the event that we need to fall back to our disaster recovery site. Read more
Monitoring failed login attempts with IPFIX
Posted on - by Jake
Does your network team routinely have issues with monitoring failed login attempts? If you answered “Yes” to the previous question or are interested in all things NetFlow then this blog is for you! Working in support I commonly get asked “what other things can NetFlow show me?” My follow-up question is usually “what do you want to see?” We all know that you can monitor VoIP statistics and URL information, but you can take this quite a few steps further now that IPFIX is the NetFlow standard. Using our IPFIX agent we can take Windows event logs, such as login failures, and export the information as NetFlow, which is then forwarded off to our NetFlow/IPFIX collector. Read more
Custom NetFlow Reporting
Posted on - by Joanne Ghidoni
Have you been looking for a Custom NetFlow reporting solution flexible enough to be able to provide reports on any Flexible NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, JFlow, Netstream, or any other flow record that you send to it? Next question, then, what would you like to get for flow reporting? Do you have any flow exports that you currently are unable to see in your current flow reporting solution? Read more