Released!

NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition 7.0 is packed with a load of amazing features. The official PR is available here.

And happy to announce that NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition supports Cisco NetFlow (and other flows), Cisco NBAR and Cisco CBQoS out–of–the–box. Download the 30-day free trial and try it out in your network setup.

Following are some of the new features added in 7.0.

• Validating QoS policies with Cisco CBQoS - Enterprise edition now supports Cisco CBQoS and provides report on the per-class pre policy, post policy drops and queues. This new feature complements the already existing support for Cisco's Network based application recognition (NBAR), helping in application mapping and providing better quality of service. Read more...
  


• User based dashboard page for guests / Operators - Each user can have their own dashboard, only viewing devices that need to be monitored by them, which can be sorted based on utilization, speed etc.


• Business hour alerts - makes sure that the users do not have to worry about the alerts that might be generated during non-business hours. With the new version of NetFlow Analyzer, business hours can be preset as per the enterprise's need and the alerts can be activated only during that period.


• Exclude IP address(es) option in IP groups - During creations of IP groups, the exclude option makes it much easier to exclude only particular addresses from a network as the requirement may be.


• Radius authentication - Radius Server is useful in centralised management of user credential details. Once the user roles are defined in the User Management feature of NetFlow Analyzer, subsequent authentication of the user profiles can be done from the Radius Server.


• Exclude encrypted applications - Enabling NetFlow on cryptomap tunnel interfaces double counts the ESP / GRE traffic. That can be prevented by applying this filter on cryptomap tunnel interfaces.


• Output interface suppression - WAN optimizers compress the packets and therefore the flow size varies. The size of the packet going in and coming out is not the same, and the readings can be misleading and confusing, to say the least. To avoid this, "Output Interface Suppression" can be used. The interface in which the compression takes place (destination/output interface) can be suppressed.


• ACL related drops - Access control filter drops the flow information which contains data pertaining to dropped traffic due to Access Control List.

Existing users can download the service pack. New evaluators can download the product from here.

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Cheers
Joe

A network bandwidth monitoring tool catering to varied needs of the small, medium and large enterprises requires different architecture. Different strokes for different folks!

During many of the recent analyst briefings, I've found myself having to answer this one particular question, which was "you have two different editions - Professional and Enterprise, catering to two different markets, SMBs and large enterprises, respectively. Do you have separate architecture for the two editions or do you give the same architecture for both?"

And that question, as always, makes me real happy. Because the answer is the one that the analysts and the product evaluators want to hear. Here is the answer:

"We understand that different organizations require different solutions and the SIZE DOES MATTER. That is why we have two different architecture for the two editions. Large enterprises are usually branched out in various locations, have higher flow rates and their NetFlow data is exported through the cloud. In contrast, the small & medium businesses do not have many branch offices, have lesser interfaces to monitor and lesser flow rates. With such a huge difference in business requirements, it is obvious that a single solution cannot be suited for both. Hence, it is necessary for the NetFlow Analyzer to adapt to such a need, and adapt, we did!

Enterprise Edition was developed strictly for large enterprises and following are the list of Enterprise level special features:

• Distributed architecture - Collectors at branch office  and the Central server for unified central view
  
• Highly scalable - up to 20, 000 interfaces can be monitored, with 100, 000 flows per second
  
• HTTPS connection between the collectors and the central server
• Failover- Seamless reporting
• Localized Timezone - Ability to view the reports / graphs according to user timezone  

All the feature of Enterprise edition can be viewed here.

Professional Edition, on the other hand, strictly caters to businesses monitoring less than 600 interfaces and do not have branch offices. The collectors and central server functionality are managed by the single server, due to lesser number of flows. All the features of professional edition can be viewed here. 

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Cheers

Joe

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