Last month at CiscoLive 2014 in Milan, Italy I sat in a class that discussed NBAR2 AVC NetFlow exports. NBAR2 is what allows a Cisco router to watch a series of packets within a flow to determine the layer 7 application. NBAR2 is a part of the Application Visibility and Control (AVC) architecture, which also …
The topic of using Deep Packet Inspection to identify applications and exporting the details using defined Application IDs in NetFlow exports is a growing concern. The current direction of vendors is preventing interoperability and in some cases, the poor template designs and element selections are causing: • Slow query times • Excessive disk space consumption …
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