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• Best Practices when enabling Ingress and or Egress NetFlow

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  A user of a NetFlow  reporting tool shouldn’t concern themself with whether or not the router or switch is exporting ingress, egress or both on a specific interface. Proper design of the NetFlow Analysis program should take this into account for the end user. Many NetFlow Analyzers exaggerate traffic if both ...
  2 days ago

• Interface ‘0′ – What does it mean to you and your NetFlow stream?

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  I love that title. It sounds so dramatic. I’ve been seeing this issue lately and I think it’s worth talking about, since I can imagine it affects the way you see flows within just about any NetFlow traffic analyzer. Within a NetFlow v5 packet , there are two rows that define the inbound and the outbound ...
  2 days ago

• NetFlow impact on hardware performance

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  NetFlow impact on hardware performance carries a common misconception. Competitors of Cisco would like you to believe that enabling NetFlow  will often bring the router or switch to its knees. The sFlow founders would also like you to believe this. Although we are sFlow supporters, I thought I would take an ...
  4 days ago

• Upgrading to Scrutinizer v7.2 NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Late last week, we announced the version 7.2 release of Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer, which includes data migration from Scrutinizer v6 . If you’re currently running version 7 of Plixer’s NetFlow analysis tool, then moving to v7.2 is a simple incremental upgrade. However, for those customers who ...
  5 days ago

• Netflow on a Cisco 4500 Series. Do I need a NetFlow services card?

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  You have heard of all the benefits gained by using Scrutinizer v7 as your NetFlow analysis tool. You decide that you are going to make the move to enable Netflow on your Cisco 4500 Series Switch . Do you need a NetFlow Services Card to do so? The Cisco NetFlow Services Card (WS-F4531) is an optional daughter ...
  6 days ago

• Mix Master Mitch at it again with the Catalyst 6509

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Mix Master Mitch is at it again. Seems like he just can’t get enough of the lime light. During the day this mild mannered hip hop sensation works in sales at Plixer and on weekends, he becomes Sanford, Maine’s biggest celebrity. Here he is working on his latest video involving a Cisco Catalyst 6509 . ...
  1 week ago

• Halloween: Setting up Procurve sFlow

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  We’ve noticed that HP is definitely making inroads into the switch market. People are still buying Cisco routers but, consumers are realizing that they can use less expensive switches on the periphery. The list of features on HP Procurve  is impressive however, their promptness to market a feature doesn’t mean ...
  1 week ago

• The Scrutinizer v7 data migration tool is here!

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  It’s here! We said it would come, and now it has been delivered. With the availability of the new migration function, which comes with the latest release of Plixer’s own NetFlow monitoring application , we can now make your conversion from Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer v6 to v7 smoother than ever. ...
  1 week ago

• Scrutinizer v7.2 Released with Migration from v6

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Scrutinizer v7.2 NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer has been released.  A complete log on the updates is on our web site .  The migration from v6.X to v7.2 is also done. Please contact plixer +1 (207) 324-8805 for assistance on the migration.  We are offering 2 webcasts to cover many of the new features for Network ...
  1 week ago

• Scrutinizer v7 supports Huawei-3Com NetStream packets

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer from Plixer International can support NetStream packets, developed by Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd ( H3C ). Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd (H3C) began operations as a joint venture between Huawei and 3Com in November 2003. In 2006, they officially went their separate ways, with 3Com buying ...
  1 week ago

• sFlow vs. NetFlow

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  We get a lot of questions on this topic. Personally, I generally deflect to some of the stuff we have posted on YouTube. Even though this webcast was recorded using Scrutinizer v6.X, I think the content is still very informative, if you have questions regarding the differences between sFlow and NetFlow collection for ...
  1 week ago

• Riverbed supports NetFlow v9 with Egress

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  I saw some good news the other day from Riverbed that NetFlow v9 will be supported albeit in “the upcoming release of version 6.0″. The exact date is not specified. I decided to investigate this and communicated with a developer over at Riverbed. He explained that egress is supported with v9 enabled by default. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Using Cisco NetFlow to find Source and Destination ports

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Let’s say that you are looking for information regarding network traffic taking place between company workstations and an application server; we’ll call it acmeapplication.com . You know that acmeapplication.com is using random port numbers to send downloads back to the workstations making the requests. When ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to setup Application Groups

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Ever wonder what ports an application or process is using on the server?  Here is a useful trick that you can in turn use to setup application groups in your NetFlow collector. If you want to find out what application is attached to a particular port on a server, you can run: netstat –nbt You may need to pipe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scrutinizer ZenPack now available free of charge!

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  Expanding your network management options just got more affordable! Through the Zenoss & Plixer partnership , the Scrutinizer ZenPack for integrating Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer is now available free of charge. Now, Zenoss Inc., the leading commercial open source network and systems ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cisco Nexus 7000 supporting Flexible NetFlow

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  One of our customers recently invested in a Cisco Nexus 7000 .  Raul  (Plixer Field Engineer) visited the customer last month and had his picture taken in front of the switch just after it was installed:       Why Datacenter Customers should Invest in Flexible NetFlow  on the Nexus: System ...
  2 weeks ago

• Striped Bass Fishing on the Maine Coast

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  I was on a call this week with a customer who was asking me about my blogs and wondering if I ever get away from NetFlow .   heh heh.  All work and no play make for a dull Product Manager.  Of course I occasionally get out of my office ‘cubical’.  I went fishing recently with a college buddy of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Seven essentials features of Flow Analytics

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  “ What do I get with the enterprise version of Scrutinizer ?” I’ve been getting this question frequently, so I figured: Why not write a quick blog? Since Flow Analytics and Scrutinizer v7 have a fantastic symbiotic relationship, lets consider seven reasons to upgrade your free version to include a licensed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Identify more than just the ingress and egress packet throughput on your ASA Firewall

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  NSEL (NetFlow Security Event Logging) is the type of NetFlow exported from an ASA Firewall. The purpose of NSEL is to track firewall events via NetFlow and to have a summary of all conversations associated with that event type. The three most popular event types that trigger a NetFlow record are: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cisco ASA NetFlow supports bidirectional flows

  
  Systrax — Authority: 125
  If you are running Scrutinizer v7.01, the Cisco ASA interfaces don’t show up in the Status tab yet. It was a philosophical decision. Here’s why: The ASA running v8.2.1 exports bidirectional NetFlow!  This is unlike anything else we’ve seen.  In nearly all NetFlow exports v5, v9, IPFIX etc. flows are ...
  3 weeks ago

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