Location based Traffic Reports – GeoLocations in NetFlow Analyzer

NetFlow Analyzer has various reports which helps users monitor bandwidth, do traffic analysis, drill down on network spikes, do trend analysis and make capacity planning decisions. With NetFlow Analyzer Version 8 , we have brought in Geo Location based report for IP Addresses.

What is Geo Location IP?

Geo Locations reports of IP Addresses provides businesses with a non-invasive way to determine region based information about the source and destination of traffic in real-time. This report can help determine to which country or region he was heading. Geo Locations reports of IP Addresses will help us in following:

1. Fraud Detection

2. Geo Marketing

3. Target Content

4. Spam fighting

5. Traffic Analytics

It helps ISP’s and enterprises determine the location of their traffic and thus help in determining the routing and AS pairing for better performance and cost savings.

Geo Location IP in NetFlow Analyzer.

The Source and Destination Tab in NetFlow Analyzer gives traffic utilized by each IP addresses for the selected time period. Until the last version, these reports helped you to identify the IP Addresses contributing to the traffic on each interface either at the source or destination level. With the new feature, you can view the Region wise (Country) traffic distribution. The Geo Location reports for IP Addresses list top 10 IP addresses for each region on the Source and Destination Tab.

Configuring GeoLocations.

After upgrading to Version 8, clicking on the Source or Destination tab will give an option “Show Geo Locations”. When you click on this, NetFlow Analyzer will prompt you to provide proxy settings to download the Geo location database and update NetFlow Analyzer database with these locations. In case you do not prefer to provide the proxy details in NetFlow Analyzer, you can download the “countrycode.zip” from the prompt window that appears and extract it under the NetFlow Analyzer installation directory (<NetFlow_Home>\).

Now, click on “Show Geo Locations” and NetFlow Analyzer will list the region wise report for the traffic. Much more visibility than ever before !

Regards,

Praveen Kumar

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