Recently, I was asked by one of our long-time customers whether Plixer had abandoned its traditional Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics (NPMD) and Network Traffic Analytics (NTA) focus. They felt that since the acquisition of Plixer by Battery Private Equity several years ago, our product direction had pivoted towards the security-focused Network Detection and Response (NDR) market.
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Client and server reports in Plixer Scrutinizer
Posted on - by Dylan Mclaughlin
In our new release of Scrutinizer version 19.1.0, we have included a handful of new reports that help to provide more information on the NetFlow collected from your network. These are the Client – Server reports, which can show directionality of requests and responses to give insight into who is asking for what and what kind of responses they get.
Read moreSearching NetFlow for a private host behind a NAT router
Posted on - by Ryan Slosser
Inbound traffic that is captured and exported as NetFlow by your NAT router only shows that the destination of the inbound internet traffic is your external IP address. But what if you want to know what private host initiated that traffic? Today, I’d like to go over how Plixer Scrutinizer can report on this traffic and expose the internal address of this traffic.
Read moreWhat is network traffic intelligence?
Posted on - by James Dougherty
With the onslaught of malware and cloud applications increasing, network traffic intelligence has become increasingly important. When an infection is unearthed and the incident response team moves in to figure out what exactly has happened, one of the first things they will do is request the logs, including the flow (NetFlow and IPFIX) data. Network and application issues are troubleshot in a similar way.
Read moreConfiguring sFlow on Arista devices
Posted on - by Khalil Ismayilov
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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