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Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer description
This application enables network engineers to identify and isolate the cause and source of network problems. Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides a new level of visibility into network traffic behavior and trends. By leveraging Ciscos NetFlow protocol to extract data from routers, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides an in-depth view into which users and applications are consuming the most bandwidth.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer converts that data into charts and tables providing network engineers with a easy way to identify and isolate the cause and source of network problems, as well as provide historical performance information to help plan for future growth.

Pie charts show the distribution of bandwidth across different types of traffic (e.g., HTTP, FTP, VoIP) and across different users. Line charts show the usage patterns over time. In addition, this software will identify the source of external traffic inbound to the corporate network.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer solves every-day networking concerns for networking engineers such as:
· What applications are consuming network bandwidth?
· Which users are generating the most traffic?
· What IP addresses are my top talkers?
· Should I upgrade my WAN bandwidth? Why?
· What is the historical trend of bandwidth of my WAN and LAN links?
· When my network is running hot, whats going on?

Network engineers use NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to determine:
· Application and network usage when, who, where, what,
· The impact of changes to the network
· Network anomalies
· Security vulnerabilities

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer also:
· Optimizes network resource allocation
· Enables quick troubleshooting of network problems
· Profiles users consumption patterns
· Profiles applications consumption patterns
· Enables quick access to traffic data
· Scales to monitor interfaces with multi-gigabit throughput
· Enables long-term storage of NetFlow data
· Improves performance & availability

Here are some key features of "Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer":

· Top-to-Bottom Network Analysis: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables network engineers to quickly examine Cisco NetFlow traffic data and to drill down into the data to determine traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface and protocol. The integration with Orion Network Performance Monitor provides users with the deepest drill-down across traffic patterns and into device performance, resulting in unprecedented visibility into usage, performance and availability statistics. Competitive offerings merely infer and estimate utilization data.
· Optimized Storage Engine: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer includes a service that intelligently summarizes large amounts of raw NetFlow data, providing users quick access to historical data while minimizing storage costs. The raw data is replaced by the summary, allowing the customer to keep significant amounts of information ready for graphs and tables. In contrast, other products either limit what the users can keep, or they create large, hard-to-manage databases with expensive storage costs.
· Enterprise-Ready Management Infrastructure: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is built on the mature Orion Network Performance Manager platform, providing users with all of the enterprise scalability and stability benefits of Orion. In contrast, other products are relatively new standalone tools with little track record of standing up to the high volume of NetFlow data that will be generated by any but the smallest enterprise.
· Reporting: Orion-style reports can be run and scheduled with Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. Out-of-the-box reports include:
· Traffic by Top xx applications over y days
· Traffic by Top xx endpoints over y days
· Traffic by Top xx protocols over y days
· Traffic by Top xx domains over y days
· Traffic by IP address group over y days
· Historical NetFlow Forensics: Analysis of network traffic is much easier by enabling insight into specific periods of time. This is extremely important when diagnosing "what happened?" during a given time period, enabling a forensic analysis of the NetFlow data.
· Other key benefits with supporting features include: Enable Analytical Capacity Planning, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer highlights trends in network traffic, allowing network staff to anticipate changes in bandwidth needs for different parts of the business and plan accordingly.
· Optimize Network Resource Allocation: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer delivers the data necessary to identify areas of excess capacity and re-assign bandwidth to areas experiencing bottlenecks without necessarily increasing spending.
· Align IT Resources with Business Needs: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer shows IT staff exactly what users are doing on the network, allowing them to adjust their efforts to fully support business priorities.
· Increase Network Security: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer improves visibility into the inbound network traffic, exposing suspicious activities or anomalous patterns to identify a wide variety of intrusions, such as the SQL slammer worm, and malware that populate "fake" e-mail traffic in hopes of overloading Exchange servers.


Requirements:

· SolarWinds Orion 8.0 or greater


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

So you ve sent half a dozen e-mails, pleading with employees to stop using the corporate network for bandwidth-hogging applications like streaming music and playing World of Warcraft, but no one seems to care. You ve been called out by upper management due to poor network performance more times than you ve thought about attending Comic-Con. Now, what? Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that reveal exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom and for what purpose enabling you to shut down the bandwidth hogs. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer helps you answer questions like: Which applications are consuming network bandwidth? Which users are generating the most traffic? Which IP addresses are my top talkers? Should I upgrade my WAN bandwidth? Why? What is the historical trend of bandwidth of my WAN and LAN links? When my network is running hot, whats going on?

Meet the newest free tool in the SolarWinds portfolio: NetFlow Configurator! NetFlow traffic analysis has become an increasingly important factor when it comes to managing your network and keeping an eye on bandwidth utilization. So we designed a free tool that makes it easier than ever before to get started with Cisco NetFlow! SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator is an easy-to-use tool for remotely and quickly configuring NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco® devices. NetFlow Configurator also facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening, and enabling monitoring of inbound and outbound (ingress/egress) traffic data per interface. NetFlow Configurator is just one of several SolarWinds applications that can aid you in performing NetFlow traffic analysis. Check out these other great NetFlow tools with FREE 30-day evaluations! SolarWinds NetFlow Real-time Tool, which is included in our award-winning Engineers Toolset, is a real-time capture and analysis tool that stores up to one hour of Cisco NetFlow data on a single router interface. It displays interface inbound and outbound traffic separately for granular analysis and troubleshooting. Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture continuous streams of network traffic across multiple router interfaces and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that reveal exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom and for what purpose enabling you to shut down the bandwidth hogs.

SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator description
Facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening. NetFlow traffic analysis has become an increasingly important factor when it comes to managing your network and keeping an eye on bandwidth utilization.

So experts designed a tool that makes it easier than ever to get started with Cisco NetFlow!

SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator is an easy-to-use tool for remotely and quickly configuring NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco devices.

NetFlow Configurator also facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening, and enabling monitoring of inbound and outbound (ingress/egress) traffic data per interface.

Paessler Netflow Tester dumps the data of all Netflow packets that a computer receives from a Cisco router. This can be useful when debugging bandwidth monitoring configurations based on Ciscos Netflow protocol.

Paessler Netflow Tester is tool that helps you debug bandwidth monitoring configurations.

First the Netflow protocol must be enabled and configured on the router. Then the router must be given the IP address of the computer running
Netflow tester so that the UDP data packets with Netflow data are sent to that computer.

Just follow these simple instructions:
1) Download Paessler Netflow Tester and then start netflowtest.exe
2) Enter the IP and port number that you have configured as netflow packet target in your Cisco Router. Usually selecting "any IP" should work, in some cases the IP must be explicitly selected.
3) Enable "Start Netflow Collector".
4) You should now see a line in the logfile for each packet the computer receives. Each line shows the time, netflow version, number of flows and the IP of a packet (note: You need netflow version 5 for PRTG Traffic Grapher!)
5) Enable "Show Flow Data" to also show the corresponding flow data.
6) If you do not see any activity then the system does not receive any netflow data (e.g. due to misconfiguration of the router or a firewall blocking the packets, etc.)

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool that collects, correlates, and analyzes NetFlow version 5 exports to show you what applications are using bandwidth, who is using them, and for how long. View in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes. Recognize most enterprise applications and see how traffic flows across your network. In-depth traffic analysis at a fraction of the cost.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool that uses Cisco NetFlow to show you what software programs are using bandwidth, who is using them, and for how long.

View in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

Recognize most enterprise applications and see how traffic flows across your network. In-depth traffic analysis at a fraction of the cost.

This Widget was created for commuters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area that wish to study traffic patterns.

I started with the Mpls Traffic Widget by Matt Johnson and tweaked it to run on both Windows and MacOS, and added missing cameras as well as area selectors.

This is based off of Tim Honls traffic cam with modifications for the new traffic cam URL.

Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer is a tool that provides incredibly detailed network utilization information for the users and applications that are causing the most traffic. Using Ciscos NetFlow Technology and the sFlow standard, Scrutinizer is able to retrieve the traffic details you need and present them in a detailed graphical view. Scrutinizer event provides a front end for enabling and configuring NetFlow on your routers and switches. Version 6 added MyView dashboard for executive level reporting and improved 3rd party integration.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer description
Web-based bandwidth monitoring tool that uses Cisco NetFlow ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool that uses Cisco NetFlow to show you what software programs are using bandwidth, who is using them, and for how long.

View in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

Recognize most enterprise applications and see how traffic flows across your network. In-depth traffic analysis at a fraction of the cost.

Requirements:

· 2.4GHz, Pentium 4 processor, or equivalent
· 1GB RAM
· 10GB disk space for the database


Supported Browsers
· Internet Explorer 5.5 and above
· FireFox 1.x
· Netscape 7.0 and above
· Mozilla 1.5 and above

Limitations:

· 30 days trial