Scenario:
You, as the network administrator, want to keep a tab on the bandwidth utilization of particular departments. You have verbally conveyed to everyone that due to the lower IT budget this year, the bandwidth is scarce. You have asked the finance department not to access websites as their work does not need it. You have taken all the necessary precautions by applying ACL filters to make sure http traffic request is denied for a group of IP addresses. But you need to be sure and your higher management wants reports every week.
Solution:
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is more than just a bandwidth monitoring tool. It’s a tool that gives you an in-depth analysis and automatically generates and delivers the report at your mailbox. It allows you to schedule the reports to be generated periodically. You can select the criteria for the reports as per your requirement.
In the above proposed scenario, the objectives are:
- Create an IP group; include all the IP addresses used by finance department.
- Generate reports for an IP group as per your criteria
- Schedule the report to be sent to you and higher management
Create an IP group with all the IP addresses used by the finance department. And in the schedule reports page you can select the IP group as the source and include the particular IP group that you have created. You work is completed by configuring the schedule details, namely, time of report generation and the day on which it is to be delivered to the intended people, periodically.
Once the report is scheduled, you are free! You don’t have to bother with checking the IP groups every day. You will receive reports and you can go through them when you have time, to check if the HTTP traffic usage is undesirably high. If that is the case, you can even know which IP addresses used it. Another proof that bandwidth monitoring is just the tip of the ice berg – ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer!
 Apart from periodic scheduling, you can also schedule it one time. You can create any number of report schedules. You can keep the report schedules dormant by disabling them and activate by enabling them, as and when required. You can select the source as Interface(s) or IP Groups(s). You can schedule two types of reports. It can be Consolidated or Custom reports. In Custom reports, you can choose criteria based on source, destination, & application. You can schedule the reports with the periodicity of daily, weekly, and monthly. You have the option to exclude the weekends. You can choose a time of report generation, when there is less or no activity and traffic is minimal (for example: wee hours of the day). This kind of report scheduling will also help to peruse the previous day/week/month report next day in the morning. You can also select the period of time for the report. For example: The report scheduled for Daily generation can be for Previous Day or Last 24 Hours.
Bandwidth monitoring is just the tip of the ice berg – ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer!
Recommended read : Various reports in NetFlow Analyzer.
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NetFlow Analyzer is a NetFlow, sFlow, JFLow (and more) collector and analyzing engine integrated together. NetFlow analyzer does not require any hardware probes and can be downloaded, used in your network environment and can be evaluated for 30 days. Go through the following useful links for better understanding of how NetFlow Analyzer can help you in understanding your network traffic and bandwidth utilization.
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