There comes a time in every network engineer’s job where they have to troubleshoot slow network performance. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a fast, reliable tool to make this task easier? In this blog, I want to cover a use case we recently saw at our main HQ and how we used our …
How We Troubleshot a Network Performance Problem in Minutes Read More »
Here at Plixer we often try and work with vendors when they are developing their NetFlow exports. Recently, Gigamon announced that they will be adding more IPFIX elements to their exports to provide more context to the traffic you are monitoring. In this blog I will go over what types of exports have been announced and …
Managing a network without having the necessary tools for visibility and control is similar to playing Russian roulette. You know a problem is going to occur, you’re just not sure when or how to find it. With the volume of mobile, cloud, and Internet of Things traffic increasing on a daily basis, visibility into network usage, …
NetFlow generation is going to bigger lengths to make sure it scales with the large amounts of bandwidth being generated by today’s networks. High-performance NICs (network interface card) and packet capture cards are also taking this route. This way the end user can use full packets for the payload information, but the NetFlow/IPFIX information for …
If you’ve been looking for Avaya IPFIX support on our Configuring NetFlow, IPFIX & sFlow page and are coming up empty, it’s because it was originally listed as Nortel ERS 5500 & 8600 series routers.
Are you looking for detailed insight into your SonicWALL VPNs? With IPFIX reporting from Scrutinizer Flow Analyzer, you can get some really cool SonicWALL VPN Utilization reports. The VPN reporting available allows you to see both the VPN tunnel bandwidth utilization and also report on the network traffic within the VPN tunnels. This takes your …
SonicWALL VPN utilization Reports : IPFIX Reporting Read More »
The most advanced Flow technologies today come in the form of (FnF) Flexible NetFlow Reporting and IPFIX Reporting. Some vendors have renamed these technologies to AppFlow, Cascade Flow, J-Flow and NetStream, however they are usually a near copy of either NetFlow or IPFIX. List of Next Gen NetFlow / IPFIX Reporting Features