Competition generally ends up being good for the consumer. It keeps prices down and forces innovation as vendors compete for market share. A great example of this has been the explosion of vendors and features in the SD-WAN market—and from my perspective, one of the best things to come out of this has been the …
Gigamon uses GigaSMART for most of its NetFlow configurations, but some of us just love working from within a CLI. With a bit of direction from a Gigamon representative, we were able to document the process of configuring IPFIX for Gigamon devices from—you guessed it—the command line! Here we’ll walk you through an example IPFIX …
Recently we were contacted by a customer who wanted to make sure that we had Viptela IPFIX support in our IPFIX collector. Viptela was recently acquired by Cisco and exports IPFIX as part of their Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) strategy. If Cisco’s current SD-WAN technology called IWAN becomes end of life’d and replaced …
In a “Bring-Your-Own-Everything” world, it has become even more of a challenge keeping users in check while developing an agile corporation that moves with the times. The only way for security to be effective is when it is seamless for both users and administrators.
I’m sure most of you have heard about Brocades recent acquisition of Vyatta, a software-based virtual application provider. But that’s not all they have done. Not long after they released a new version of Vyattas 5600 vRouter: the Brocade 5600 vRouter.
In the last year I’ve been fortunate enough to be a Field Engineer for a company that I love. I’ve had the incredible opportunity to fly around the world deploying our technology into a variety of infrastructures, travelling to some amazing places, enjoying a range of different foods and cultures, and meeting some extraordinary engineers …
Today I want to take a look at the Gigamon appliance and their IPFIX configuration. Recently I was asked a rather interesting question. An avid user of Scrutinizer had a very specific element he wanted to collect and monitor. He wanted to trend what SSL version his internal servers are currently running, as well as …
Providing detailed visibility and contextual awareness into network traffic is essential to secure and optimize business operations. While NetFlow and IPFIX reporting have proven to provide these details, sharing this data between multiple vendor applications in an organization can be challenging. Enter, the Scrutinizer NetFlow Application Programming Interface (API).
Today I want to talk a little about the Fortiswitch IPFIX configuration on the Fortiswitch-500. As of version 4.0 MR1 the Fortiswitch-500 can export IPFIX to your NetFlow Collector. IPFIX is the standard for flow information exports, hense the name IPFIX (Internet Protocol Flow Information eXport).
I have had a few customers ask about username reporting with Netflow within their incident response system. Collecting user activity and viewing reports filtered on specific users can give administrators insight and convenience when looking at user logged into the network when investigating an incident or providing detailed reports for management. Most authentication systems are …