Today, we commonly see IT budget reduction, cost cutting, and barriers for potential network circuit upgrades. In this tough economic situation, the motive of a network administrator should be optimizing the current infrastructure for future accommodations.
Identifying Layer 7 application traffic
Network administrators around the globe are very concerned about the type of traffic that is exiting their network. They want their critical business application over the WAN to perform at its best. Non-critical applications like web traffic and social media downgrade the performance of WAN links.
All New Distributed Edition of NetFlow Analyzer
Until 2012, NetFlow Analyzer’s Enterprise edition benefited ISPs, MSPs and large organizations that had distributed network architecture, in monitoring their bandwidth. Any organization with less than 600 interfaces and want to monitor all of them by installing product on Head Quarters data center can go with Professional and Professional Plus Edition which has integrated collectors and reporting engine which collects the data and generate reports. The Enterprise edition was majorly used by organizations that had a distributed architecture and monitoring was done by means of Central server and multiple collectors across different sites in the same network.
Cisco Performance Monitoring using NetFlow Analyzer.
Cisco Performance Monitor helps you to identify performance issues on the network, Now a days Video is every where and when it comes to corporate network, it has to be treated in such a way that it is with high quality as expected. An organization considering implementation of Video conferencing or any video streaming should also consider that this will increase significant load on the network. The network should be capable enough to handle this additional load along with existing load.
Configuring HighPerf Reporting Engine Part-1
In continuation to our introduction blog on HighPerf reporting engine, this one explains about how to install the HighPerf reporting engine and integrate it with NetFlow Analyzer. This HighPerf reporting engine comes as a add-on package to NetFlow Analyzer
Cisco Sup 2T NetFlow Configuration
Ever since Flexible NetFlow was introduced by Cisco, they started supporting this advanced NetFlow export on most of the routers and switches.
An Introduction to High Perf Reporting Engine from NetFlow Analyzer
When it comes to traffic reporting and network troubleshooting to find bottlenecks or bandwidth spikes, complete port level analysis of raw flows is required and this will help to find out the cause. NetFlow Analyzer troubleshooting report with Sub Minute visibility helps to identify Network Spike, Bandwidth Saturation etc. The Troubleshooting Report gives complete port level information for the selected time as it is generated completely from raw NetFlow data.
Sample Based Flexible NetFlow Export Configuration
NetFlow technology involves checking the packets traversing a router interface to identify the actual traffic. The high volume of packets and packet rates of traffic on some router links causes the router to use higher CPU and memory during such an analysis.
NetFlow Configurator in ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
Over the past 10 years, NetFlow Analyzer has proven to be a solid solution which mainly focuses on customer satisfaction and easy usability that helps saving troubleshooting time and makes traffic analytics a breeze. In addition to our rich set of reporting features, we have now added the ability to configure Cisco routers for NetFlow export from NetFlow Analyzer user interface itself. This NetFlow Configurator allows the user to configure: Traditional NetFlow export(V5 and V9) Flexible NetFlow export Medianet Configuration and The ability to view, modify and delete already configured NetFlow export This NetFlow Configurator is available free for all the users.
Cisco ASA 8.4(5) and above NetFlow updates
Cisco is always known for rapidly rolling out enhancements to their product portfolio, Cisco ASA 8.4(5) was recently released with a lot of features and security enhancements.