A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is basically a flood of illegitimate traffic that is sent to a network resource from an IP address or a group of IP addresses, rendering the network resource unavailable. A DDoS attack is a serious security threat facing all types of networks, from the simplest enterprise network to the most complex corporate network. Fortunately, NetFlow Analyzer can help you detect DDoS attacks and mitigate the harm they might otherwise cause
Quality of Service (QoS): A Good Traffic Engineering Component
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenFlow Versus NetFlow
In the recent past, there have been a lot of questions about OpenFlow especially in the context of how different is it from NetFlow. In reality, OpenFlow and NetFlow are two different technologies that serve different purposes.
Security Analytics in NetFlow Analyzer
With Advanced Security Analytics module(ASAM) in NetFlow Analyzer, Security Analyst job on a network would be very easy. This blog helps you to understand the requirements for security Analytics in a network and how ASAM help you to identify network holes
NetFlow Analyzer Simplified Bandwidth Monitor
NetFlow Analyzer is a comlete software solution for all your bandwidth monitoring needs.