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.
Limitation of Enterprise Edition:…
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.
NetFlow Analyzer with its value added features like Cisco IP SLA VO and Cisco Medianet and Mediatrace helps to implement video traffic on the network effectively.
Network Load Testing using Cisco IP SLA VO :-
Video packets (RT…
Attention Cisco TMEs: Solarwinds does not support Peformance Monitoring, NBAR and MediaTrace
I was watching Network Field day videos the other day and the one on Application Visibility and Control (AVC) was most interesting due to our product being a player in this field. During the Application Visibility and Control (AVC) session, the TME handling the session said Solarwinds and Lancope supports Performance Monitoring in their NetFlow monitoring solution. As far as I know and based on the information available in websites and the Cisco partner portal page, they DO NOT SUPPORT Performance Monitoring Flexible NetFlow exports.
My request to the TME is, please refer to the Cisco partners page for MediaNet and announce only the approved vendor names during such sessions. We vendors put in a lot of e…
Make Sense of Video Traffic with Cisco Medianet and Mediatrace
There are many ways to monitor video traffic on a network. Jean-Charles Griviaud, Product Line Manager in Software Division at Cisco in charge of L7 services argues that Medianet has a better way.
Medianet is a framework to simplify video and the operation of networks where video is running. One of the common ways to determine video behavior on a network is to simply look at devices and try to determine the content. Given Medianet’s architecture, they leverage the endpoint itself to understand video traffic, said Grivaud.
They are able to gather this information thanks to an application stack called MSI that sits on the endpoint itself. MSI’s job is to provide simplified autoconfiguration with the netwo…
Improving Network Performance with Medianet Media Awareness
One of ManageEngine’s key partnerships is with Cisco’s Medianet, which is an architecture for managing your video. At Cisco Live 2012 in San Diego, California, Patricia Costa, Product Manager for Medianet at Cisco showed off Medianet Media Awareness which provides the network awareness of the context and content being handled by each application.
“If the network understands better what the applications are, they can do better decisions. So the network becomes a little smarter,” said Costa in her interview with Rajkumar Vijayarangakannan of ManageEngine.
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Policing Live video traffic and monitoring using NetFlow Analyzer
I hope everyone who had attended our joint webinar with Cisco about QoS Design and validation, would have got a better idea on how to design a network with effective QoS policing. For those who missed the Webinar, you can find the video presentation here.
In continuation to our Webinar, this blogs helps you in setting up QoS policies for Live Video Traffic and monitor them using NetFlow Analyzer.
On a network the Video traffic spread in three format:
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Video Conferencing
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Video On Demand
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Video Broadcast
Video traffic has very high and extremely variable packets rate with a much higher average maximum transmission unit (MTU) when comparing to Voice.
QoS Treatment:-
For classifying the Video traffic to appropriat…
Live Video Traffic Monitoring in NetFlow Analyzer with Minimal effort
Now! NetFlow Analyzer 9.6 got released. So the question would be, what’s new in it?. Click here to get answer for this. This blog is about a more exciting and valuable feature for Networkers, as it saves time spend on report generation.
Yes, this is about On Demand Mediatrace reporting which I have already talked about in my earlier blog. Instant report generation available for Performance Analysis of Media rich traffic.
Cisco Mediatrace monitoring allows you as a network admin, to analyze the performance of real time traffic session on each hop. With this On Demand Mediatrace monitoring, Network Admin has visibility of current sessions going on the Network device and he can choose the session for whic…
Analyzing Live Video Performance using NetFlow Analyzer
With highly advanced technology development, the overhead on Network Administrators in ensuring prompt delivery of business critical applications over the WAN is very high. Video conferencing is predominantly taking place in major organizations for a variety of reasons like less cost, more productivity and a whole lot of advantages it can offer.
Video conferencing will take place between different branch locations within the same country or over the WAN between different countries. A Network Administrator needs to ensure smooth conferencing of video and avoid undesirable factors such as delay, packet loss and jitter, which are most likely to hamper the quality of the video.
In general, the Network A…
It’s Holiday Time
A quick Skype call to your niece, last minute business meetings in WebEx, Jingle Bells streaming on You Tube, it is that time of the year again. It’s Christmas time. Everyone is in the holiday mood. What else, other than this holiday season could be the best example to demonstrate the importance of video traffic? Wishing your loved ones have never been this easy, thanks to the applications that support video conferencing.
The growth in video traffic has been tremendous, especially in the last two years. More enterprises are turning to rich media based communications to cut costs involved in traveling and also to improve business relationships.
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, Inter…
Cisco Mediatrace Reports in NetFlow Analyzer
After configuring the Initiating Router and Responders for Mediatrace monitoring, as the next step we would now get into report generation. The data is represented in the form of easy to understand charts and graphs. The reports can be generated individually for each session.
Cisco Mediatrace Reports:-
The reports are generated based on the metrics each session is associated with. The metrics are:
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System-Data monitor
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Performance Monitoring (for Video).
System-Data Monitoring:-
If the option selected is System-Data monitoring while creating session, the metrics for which reports generated are :
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System Metrics: INTF Profile
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System Metrics: CPU Profile
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System Metrics: MEMORY Profile
Performance M…
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