With the ever-growing support for flow exports, the need for probes and port mirroring has become a lot more limited. There are certain environments where it’s a requirement, however, and physically impossible to position a probe near a device that we want to port mirror from. In these situations, it’s important for the probe to …
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With the growing number of vendors supporting Flow based technologies, we’re seeing a rise in use cases and possibilities for flow analysis and performance monitoring. Even though there has been exponential growth in flow reporting over the last few years, we in the industry are always left with questions, what are we missing? Where can …
A good number of evaluators have been asking me what’s the best way to evaluate our free virtual Netflow collector. There is a growing trend of companies moving away from dedicated hardware to a virtualized environment. However, there are many options to create such a network. Windows has Hyper-V, which is part of the Windows …
Today, I’d like to walk you through the process to configure a mirror port in VMware’s VSphere. After you’ve deployed your new FlowPro Virtual Appliance, the steps to which you can find outlined here, you may wonder why you do not see traffic in your NetFlow collector. A very likely reason is that you may …