Flow Based technology provides network visibility that reduces time and costs for understanding, alerting, and reporting on network issues. It gives real-time and historical insight into network traffic through non-intrusive collection of flow data from routers and switches. This flow-based network intelligence is useful for various teams and helps with tasks like capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting.
6. Network Auditing: Companies are challenged with maintaining too many tools that all show a slightly different view of the same data. Often with limited Visibility. Hence the need for a convergent toolkit. Capacity Planning Accounting Performance Root Cause Analysis Security Surveillance Lockdown QoS Business Intelligence Copyright 2009 IdeaData Pty Ltd
13. Alerts – Menus and Popups Alerts are easily seen or edited from the left menus and by clicking on the grid element you want to configure. Mouse over popup provide additional information. The “My Alerts” menu Filters the Alert information simply by clicking on its grid.
20. Anomaly Detection – 3 clicks to an Intelligent Baseline Make your own rules (Steps 1 & 2) From Configuration menu choose interface, application, its protocol, location or QoS class etc …This is a useful starting point, once you have setup your criteria to begin learning a baseline you can edit it and tune the filter at anytime.
21. Anomaly Detection – 3 clicks to an Intelligent Baseline Make your own rules (Step 3)
22. Anomaly Detection – Case: Large P2P Traffic Following an Anomaly Alert we discover a large amount of P2P traffic, It’s a bittorrent and xbox traffic downloads outside of business hours. The IP Addresses and location tags indicate the department, Now that you know where its coming from it’s a simple process to build an access list and stop it dead in its tracks. As Netflow Auditor has a comprehensive scheduler and multiple output formats including csv, PDF and SNMP, this process can be fully automated