In the past few months I’ve noticed that the number of support calls we’re taking for help using our NetFlow Analyzer for detecting DDOS attacks seems to be on the rise. We have some existing blogs about these cyber threats, but it’s been a few years since they were written, and the attackers are becoming …
When you log into your NetFlow Analyzer, it may be shocking to find one of your core devices is saying “no flows received”. I’ve seen this in support and know that it is important to have your devices sending NetFlow data to your collector at all times. I’ve found that the best way to uncover …
Having an application aware network performance management NetFlow solution will provide greater insight to not only what traffic is traversing the network, but how efficiently the traffic is traversing. Cisco AVC: Performance Monitoring A subset of Cisco Application Visibility and Control (Cisco AVC) is Application Response Time (ART). ART provides the engine to calculate application …
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I was chasing down a Virtual Distributed Switch NetFlow support question the other day because a customer was wondering how our NetFlow Analyzer would handle the export. I finally took the time to figure out what a Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) IP address is and how it relates to the NetFlow exporter. A VDS can be …
The Bluecoat Crossbeam NetFlow Support instructions for configuring flow sampling can be found in the XOS Configuration Guide. Outlined below is an explanation for configuring NetFlow or IPFIX.
Good news, the Blue Coat MACH5 NetFlow support is now part of a growing community of vendors supporting NetFlow and or IPFIX. IPFIX is the official standard for all flow technologies and although interest in the proprietary sFlow technology has begun to shrink over the past few years, the IPFIX standard includes provisions for real-time …
Many Network Management Solutions on the market lack support for sFlow, NetFlow and IPFIX reporting and threat detection. If you are looking for EM7 NetFlow support, our NetFlow solution easily integrates with EM7 from ScienceLogic and we do it in 3 ways to provide the best network traffic monitoring solution.
Most companies are taking the position that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is allowing businesses to gain more productivity from their work force. Because of this, Mobile Workers are on the rise and it is creating a new IT challenge. “Certain bring-your-own-device strategies present certain security risks: the introduction of mobile malware onto a hospital …