Today I want to show you how to configure sFlow on your Arista device and demonstrate its featured output through Plixer Scrutinizer. Our goal is to define multicast flow on our switch.
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Configuring a network map
Posted on - by Ryan Slosser
The process of setting up a new network map has changed a bit in the newest Plixer Scrutinizer v19.1.0 release. Today, I’d like to go over setting up a new network map and configuring new connections between map objects.
Read moreCisco ISR4300 IPFIX configuration
Posted on - by Khalil Ismayilov
I recently helped a customer configure NetFlow on their ISR4300. I found that ISR43XX/44XX routers run IOS-XE, which only supports Flexible NetFlow (FNF). NetFlow is a Cisco technology that provides statistics on packets flowing through the router. It’s the standard for acquiring IP operational data from IP networks.
Read moreIntegrate your network alarms with Microsoft Teams
Posted on - by Jeff Morrison
2020 was a year of incredible change—changes that I believe will have a lasting impact, but also changes that require immense flexibility with traditional structure and workflows. This is observable in every industry, and ours is no different. Not only has the model of network traffic changed with a work-from-home model, but so has our ability to collaborate as a team. We moved from primarily being in the same physical room as our colleagues to now spending our time in virtual channels. One of the most widely adopted of these digital workspaces is Microsoft Teams.
With Teams being the primary space for collaboration, having a network monitoring solution like Plixer Scrutinizer post alarms to a dedicated Teams channel is an incredibly effective way of monitoring, tracking and assigning network events to team members for investigation. Let’s take a look at how easy it is to configure this integration within Scrutinizer.
Read moreCustom script-based sensor for PRTG
Posted on - by Khalil Ismayilov
Today I would like to explain how to create a custom script that sends specific information to PRTG as a sensor. Customers often ask me how to use PRTG to tack the uptime and downtime of Scrutinizer. So, what specific parameter needs to be set up so that the PRTG sensor would react immediately on it?
Read moreHow to improve response time for life-critical network events with Plixer Scrutinizer
Posted on - by Stephen Tutterow
The healthcare industry has been on red alert for more than a year now. Workloads have doubled and the amount of time required to maintain the network is in direct relation with this trend. Now, more than ever, beyond-perfect response times are a requirement, otherwise lives are on the line. Plixer’s healthcare customers use Scrutinizer to ensure they have a constant, real-time source of truth for the most common and most frustrating issues. This blog will focus on how to mitigate network slowdowns, improve overall visibility, and improve DNS visibility, one of the top challenges the healthcare industry faces today.
Read moreMonitoring Microsoft Teams traffic with Plixer Scrutinizer
Posted on - by Timothy Morris
The modern workplace is filled with companies working largely over inter-office messaging systems. These tools often leverage several different functions aside from chatting, such as video conferencing and file sharing. What was once just a small tool could now potentially be sucking down your office’s bandwidth. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at Microsoft Teams. Since this tool is now coming included in Microsoft Office’s standard line-up, its presence is becoming more and more common on corporate networks.
Read moreDefining top talkers with Flexible NetFlow and AVC
Posted on - by Khalil Ismayilov
I was recently on a call with a customer who wanted to know which applications use the most bandwidth during working hours—i.e. their top talkers. This gave me a great opportunity to review a specific feature of Flexible NetFlow and AVC integration. I’ve decided to build a small lab with a simple network configuration where I could set up a couple of VLANs, a trunk communication between L2 and L3 devices, and couple of devices. The end goal is to define what host under what VLAN is using what application the most.
Read moreMonitoring applications with Plixer Scrutinizer
Posted on - by Dylan Mclaughlin
Monitoring applications is a useful tool in the network administrators tool belt and I’d like to go over how Scrutinizer can help monitor your network in both the realm of bandwidth utilization and security alerting. This blog will cover why it is important to monitor applications and the different ways we can gather and report on that information using Scrutinizer.
Read moreIntegrating Plixer and Aruba: sFlow, IPFIX, and ClearPass
Posted on - by Stephen Tutterow
This blog will focus on Plixer’s current capability to extract flow from the different solutions Aruba has to offer today. I will go over the integration steps with Aruba ClearPass and the role we play in an automated role-based access monitoring setup using ClearPass.
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