What is network traffic intelligence?
With the onslaught of malware and cloud applications increasing, network traffic intelligence has become increasingly important. When an infection is unearthed and the incident...
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Network Operations
Configuring sFlow on Arista devices
Today I want to show you how to configure sFlow on your Arista device and demonstrate its featured output through Plixer Scrutinizer. Our goal...
Configuring a network map
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...
Cisco ISR4300 IPFIX configuration
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...
Integrate your network alarms with Microsoft Teams
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...
Custom script-based sensor for PRTG
Today I would like to explain how to create a custom script that sends specific information to PRTG as a sensor. Customers often ask...
How to improve response time for life-critical network events with Plixer Scrutinizer
The healthcare industry has been on red alert for more than a year now. Workloads have doubled and the amount of time required to...
Monitoring Microsoft Teams traffic with Plixer Scrutinizer
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...
Defining top talkers with Flexible NetFlow and AVC
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...
Monitoring applications with Plixer Scrutinizer
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...