Managing a Corporate network spread across the globe is a highly challenging task for the Network Administrator. When it comes to bandwidth monitoring and generating traffic reports for each location, based on their time zone is a painful task faced by every network admin. Of course there will be localizations within the network with individual Administrator’s across the globe to monitor their own segment of the network.

Managing
a Corporate network spread across the globe is a highly challenging task for
the Network Administrator. When it comes to bandwidth monitoring and generating
traffic reports for each location, based on their time zone is a painful task
faced by every network admin. Of course there will be localizations within the
network with individual Administrator’s across the globe to monitor their own
segment of the network.

NetFlow
Analyzer Enterprise Edition with distributed Architecture serves many corporate
networks to successfully manage bandwidth and monitor traffic through their
network devices. This blog focuses on the Enterprise Edition of NetFlow
Analyzer and its time zone based traffic report generation feature.

NetFlow
Analyzer Enterprise Edition Architecture:

This
edition has a distributed architecture where flow collection is done by
collectors and a central server does all the reporting. The collectors send
collected NetFlow data over HTTPS to the central server for storage and
reporting. Advantage of using NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition is: