Configuring Cisco Devices

This section is common to all the editions of IT360 - Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition - Probes only and MSP Edition - Probes only.

This section offers a brief guide to setting up NetFlow on a Cisco router or switch. For more detailed information, refer the Cisco web site at http://www.cisco.com/go/netflow. It is recommended that only people with experience in configuring Cisco devices follow these steps.

• Cisco devices with NetFlow support
• Configuring an IOS Device
• Configuring a Catalyst 6000 Series Switch
• Configuring a Native IOS Device
• Configuring a Catalyst 4000 Series Switch
• Configuring NetFlow for BGP

Setting the appropriate time on the router

Whenever the time difference between the IT360 Server and the router is above 10 minutes a warning icon will appear in the home page. When this happens, IT360 will stamp the flows based on the system time of the IT360 server.

In case you see this, please ensure the following on the router:

• Check if the correct time is set on your router. You can check this by logging into the router and typing show clock. You can set the clock time using the command clock set hh:mm:ss month date year 
• Check if the time zone and the offset (in Hours and Minutes) for the time zone is set properly (E.g. PST -8 00 for PST or EST -5 00 for EST). You can check this by logging into the router, going into the configure terminal and typing show running-config. You can set the clock time zone and offset using the command clock timezone zone hours [minutes]  (E.g. clock timezone PST -8 00)

To enable NetFlow in an MPLS environment refer Cisco's documentation on MPLS NetFlow