NetFlow Analyzer

New Features in Professional 7 | Features in Professional Plus 7

Major Features
1. Authentication using radius server
2. Option to view older scheduled reports from the UI
3. Ability to create IP groups with exclude IP address option
4. Reporting on source network and destination network - in addition to the existing source IP and destination IP
5. Ability to add application mapping from the Show Ports page for enhanced usability
6. DNS resolving enhancement of source and destination addresses
7. Support for user configurable DNS names for IP addresses
8. Different IN and OUT speed can be configured for interfaces
9. Support for exporting reports to CSV
10. Sorting on the Autonomous Systems view for easier tracking and for peering arrangement
11. Option to exclude ESP_App on user defined interfaces - Ensures that we don’t double count traffic in case of ESP tunnels.
12. Option to suppress output interface accounting on user defined interfaces - Useful when working with WAN accelerators
13. Option to suppress Access Control List related drops (based on destination interface being null) on user defined interfaces
14. Quick view traffic graph in Dashboard view for enhanced usability
15. Graphs enhanced to one min granularity and also to real-time in
16. Network Snapshot
17. Ability to set SNMP parameters globally for all routers
18. Support for sorting of interfaces based on usage in Dashboard View
19. User management enhanced to provide last login time and current login status for all users
20. The LHS view can be re-arranged for convenience.
21. Support for configuring alerts on interface groups. Interface groups can be used for checking the router traffic (by combining all the interfaces into a single group)
22. User permission can be granted at an interface group level. This feature would enable providing permission at an interface level while creating a user.

Minor Features
1. Login page enhanced with a "keep me signed in" option
2. Alerting can be disabled for non-business hours
3. Ability to Backup.bat just the aggregated data
4. Option to bulk-load IP groups from flat file
5. Distribution graph for troubleshooting, custom reports and drill down reports
6. Configurable deletion of older alerts
7. Option to resolve DNS for single IP addresses.
8. Quick view graph from the dashboard view for IP groups.

In addition to the features in NetFlow Analyzer Professional 7, the following features are offered:

1. Reporting on Cisco CBQoS - Useful for monitoring class based pre and post policy traffic usage, class based drops and queuing.
2. Reporting on Cisco NBAR - Intelligent application categorization based on deep packet inspection
3. Usage based billing - Generation of periodic bills for accounting and for charge-back.