ManageEngine continues our weekly blog series called Talk to ME Tuesday. Each week we discuss interesting topics from the world of technology with you, the people that live and breathe it everyday.
People are spending more money in security management, said Andrew Hay, Senior Analyst for 451 Research.
Hay believes that the rise in reporting of high profile breaches has made more people think about investing in overall security management rather than just having firewalls or intrusion detection systems.
“You need something to orchestrate those disparate data sources and combine things to get a better view of your security environment,” said Hay.
If you’re looking for a security management solu…
Talk to ME Tuesday: IT Pros Admit to Challenges They Face Monitoring Their Environment
ManageEngine continues our weekly blog series called Talk to ME Tuesday. Each week we discuss interesting topics from the world of technology with you, the people that live and breathe it everyday.
You’ve got tools monitoring your network, but do you really know everything that’s going on? Are the people, processes, and monitoring tools all in place, talking to each other and all running smoothly? At the 2012 Interop conference in Las Vegas, I asked the assembled IT pros, “What challenges are you facing monitoring your environment?” Here are their answers.…
Talk to ME Tuesday: IT Pros Admit to Challenges They’re Facing Securing Their Environment
ManageEngine continues our new blog series called Talk to ME Tuesday. Each week we’ll discuss interesting topics from the world of technology with you, the people that live and breathe it everyday. So get ready to join the conversation and talk to ME.
Oh, how nice it would be to know more about intrusions, their validity, and severity. And how well are you securing that environment. Do you know what you don’t know? Or is stuff slipping through both your security defenses and your monitoring that you’re completely in the dark about a lot of stuff?
At the 2012 Interop conference in Las Vegas, I asked the assembled IT pros, “What challenges are you facing securing your environment?” Here are their answers…
Site to Site traffic monitoring : A video tutorial
The Site to Site option under IP Groups in Manage Engine NetFlow Analyzer lets you monitor traffic between two specific sites based on IP Address or IP Network. Please watch the video given below to know more about the same.
You can also go through the blog about the Site to Site monitoring from here .
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Bandwidth monitoring with NetFlow in Palo Alto firewall
Palo Alto devices from version 4.1 onwards started NetFlow support. All the NetFlow configuration can be done from the device UI itself.
We were not able to get any screenshot which showed the NetFlow configuration for Palo Alto devices. Please find below the details of the tabs which will give you an idea of how to configure NetFlow on these device.
There are two mail steps to configure NetFlow on Palo Alto device:
1) Define a NetFlow server profile : specifies the frequency of the export along with the Netflow servers that will receive the exported data.
2) Assigning the profile to firewall interface :all traffic flowing over this interface is exported to the specified servers.
Step 1:
For defining a NetFlow se…
Barracuda NG Firewall now supports IPFIX
Barracuda NG Firewall released their new firmware 5.2.3, curious to know whats new??
Visit the link to know the complete set of features:
http://blog.barracuda.com/pmblog/index.php/2012/03/14/barracuda-ng-firewall-5-2-3-firmware-released-2/
Here, in this blog we are discussing what is important for us, yes its IPFIX. Firmware release 5.2.3 introduces IPFIX streaming support. NetFlow Analyzer supports IPFIX flows in addition to NetFlow, sFlow, Appflow and many more flow formats. These IPFIX packets can be send to NetFlow Analyzer server and start report generation for Barracuda Firewall.
Please find below the screenshot of IPFIX configuration on Barracuda NG Firewall, we found this fr…
Flexible NetFlow configuration in Cisco 4500 with Supervisor Engine 7-E and Cisco IOS XE
Catalyst 4500 series switches with Supervisor Engine 7-E and Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.1.0 SG supports Flexible NetFlow. Hence we thought of sharing the configuration information with you.
The configuration of Flexible NetFlow in these switches is similar to the other regular Flexible NetFlow. Same 4 steps:
1) Creating Exporter
2) Creating Record
3) Creating Monitor
4) Associate the monitor to the interface.
However, supervisor 7-E does not support predefined records like traditional routers (record neflow ipv4 original-input). Hence it is compulsory that we should create a record.
You can configure the swit…
ManageEngine IT360 Now Optimized for the Apple iPad
Hello all,
We have been talking about real-time IT and its importance in business for quite a while now. One of the most important aspects of real-time IT is continuous monitoring which definitely is not an easy task as it involves sitting in front of a computer round-the-clock to monitor your IT infrastructure.
By integrating operations and service management under one console, with ManageEngine IT360 we successfully eliminated IT silos which previously existed in our customers’ environments. Moving ahead with the advancement in technology, which has become mobile…
Application monitoring in NetFlow Analyzer – a video tutorial
NetFlow Analyzer is a bandwidth monitoring tool which helps you make an in-depth analysis about your network traffic. However, NetFlow Analyzer can also be used for application monitoring.
Please view the video to know more:
You can download the 30 day trial of ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer from here .
Praveen Manohar
NetFlow Analyzer Technical Team
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NetFlow configuration for Vyatta router
One of our customers wanted to know the configuration for NetFlow for the Vyatta router. For the benefit of many others who may need it, here it is:
Please configure NetFlow on your Vyatta router as mentioned below:
set system flow-accounting interface <interface name> // This command should be issued for each interface you want to monitor
set system flow-accounting netflow server <Server IP > port 9996 // Specifies a NetFlow collector to which to export Netflow data
set system flow-accounting netflow sampling-rate rate // Specifies the rate at which packets are sampled for statistics.
set system flow-accounting netflow version 9 // Specifies the Netflow format that data will be exported in…
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