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The latest release of NetFlow Analyzer (9.5) can be downloaded from the website at http://www.netflowanalyzer.com/download.html
Feature | Description |
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Re-vamped User Interface | The look and feel of NetFlow Analyzer's user interface has been modified for better user experience |
Cisco's Medianet technology | Cisco's Medianet is an end-to-end architecture that is capable analyzing voice, video and data traffic and report on loss, latency and jitter thereby helping you optimize rich media applications. |
Support for App-flow protocol | A standard for application monitoring and reporting that doesn't require network taps or span ports. |
Create and Monitor IP groups using WAN RTT monitor | Using WAN RTT monitor, you can create specific IP groups for the IP address or IP range monitored. This way, you can monitor both latency and the number of flows for a specific IP address or range. |
On-demand billing in Capacity Planning Reports | Generate on-demand bills in capacity planning reports |
Performance tuning | Improve the performance of product through user interface |
The latest release of NetFlow Analyzer (9.1) can be downloaded from the website at http://www.netflowanalyzer.com/download.html
Feature | Description |
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Advanced Security Analytics Module | Security analytics tool that helps in detecting network intrusions and classifying the intrusions to tackle network security threats in real time has been enhanced with Anomaly based detection, Heuristics based event classification that includes Denial of Service Attack,Host Scan, Port Scan, Diagonal Scan and Grid Scan. |
The latest release of NetFlow Analyzer (9.0) can be downloaded from the website at http://www.netflowanalyzer.com/download.html
Feature | Description |
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Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) | Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is designed optimize application performance and infrastructure consolidation in WAN environments. |
Enhanced Capacity Planning Report | Top 10 IN and Out Application Growth report and Standard deviation graph added |
Support IPV6 Address Format | Support for IPV6 Flow format in Troubleshoot reports, and Top applications and Top Conversations report has been added |
Wan RTT | The WAN RTT monitor is used to monitor WAN availability, Latency and Quality of Service. |
Option to map IP addresses to site names | Ability to add a new site name to known IP addresses. |
Report Filter Enhancements | You can filter reports according to your requirement |
Support for Radius server Authentication in MSSQL | NetFlow Analyzer now offers support for MSSQL |
Creating Alert Profile with IP Address as Criteria | IP address has been added as one of the alert criteria |
Scheduling option for Compare Reports and Report Profiles | Compare reports and Report Profiles can be scheduled prior and reports that are compared can be generated |
Enhancements to Consolidated Reports | The user interface of consolidated report has been changed for easy of use |
Network Snapshot Improved with Widget for Top N Alerts | The Top N Alerts widget can now be viewed in the network snapshot dashboard. This way you can get a quick view of all the alerts generated |
String Search Option for IP groups | IP Groups and Addresses can now be located easily using the search option. |
Custom Selection Option in Device Reports | In the device report custom selection of devices and time period enabled |
The latest release of NetFlow Analyzer (8.6) can be downloaded from the website at http://www.netflowanalyzer.com/download.html
Feature | Description |
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Capacity Planning Report |
You can use these reports to see the growth in network traffic for user-defined period of time |
Report Profiles
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You can create profiles with various reports as per your choice |
Top Sites |
This gives a list of applcations and the various sites visited through these applications |
Selection box for list of application |
This gives you an easy access to application specific conversations |
Compare report include 95th percetile |
You can see the 95th percentile data in the "compare reports". Standard deviation values have been added in this report. |
Compare report should include 1,5,15 min reports |
Now you can select 1/ 5 / 15 minutes average in which you want the reports to be viewed in "compare reports" |
Resolve NATED Addresses in ASA reports |
The IP addresses will be resolved and displayed |
Resizeable columns |
In the conversation tabs, the width of the columns can be resized as per your convenience |
Configures CBQoS automatically for first 20 routers |
As soon as you add devices, the first 20 devices will be automatically polled and CBQoS configured |
Schedule Reports CSV option |
You can export the "scheduled reports" as CSV, additional to the PDF option already available |
Geo location PDF and CSV |
The "geo location reports" can be exported as PDF and CSV |
Schedule Business hours for last month |
In the "scheduled reports", you can define business hours for the 'previous month' and 'previous week' reports |
Standard Deviation calculation in Traffic Report |
Standard deviation values are displayed in the "traffic report" |
Interface performance dashboard |
In the "consolidated reports", pie chart has been added for ease of interpretation |
Add custom URL widget in Dashboard | You can add custom URL (user defined) in dashboard, as a widget |
The latest release of NetFlow Analyzer (8.5) can be downloaded from the website at http://www.netflowanalyzer.com/download.html
Feature | Description |
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Advanced Security Analytics Module | Security analytics tool that helps in detecting network intrusions and classifying the intrusions to tackle network security threats in real time. |
Feature | Description |
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IPSLA (VoIP) | Monitors the key performance metrics of the VoIP network to determine its health. The parameters measured include Jitter, Latency, Packet Loss etc. |
SNMP V3 support | Support for SNMP V3 has been added in this build |
FNF - NBAR integration | Now users can get data on NBAR by configuring flexible NetFlow |
V9 Sampling | NetFlow Analyzer now does NetFlow V9 sampling as well |
Cisco ASA | NetFlow Analyzer now supports Cisco ASA (ISO version 8.2 onwards) |
CBQoS Child Policy | Child policies can be created under parent policies |
PDF Option in CBQoS | CBQoS reports can be exported as PDF |
Geo Locations reports of IP Addresses | Resolves and groups IP addresses into groups of countries. Lists the traffic usage and bandwidth utilization of the link by the IP address from separate countries |
Single Click Scheduling Option | Scheduling reports have been made easier now |
Network Layout using google maps and Google map widgets | Devices can be located on google maps and a click on link between devices will give details about the link utilization and more |
More Graphical Widgets and some new Widgets added in Dashboard | The widgets have become more graphical, which means it is now easier to interpret data |
Sampling rate accounted during the flow calculation | Flow calculation also takes sampling rate(defined by the network administrator) into account |
Global search for IP Address link | Type in the IP address of the source / destination / network... or any of the given choices and Voila! you will get Traffic IN and Traffic OUT details for the particular IP address |
Operator specific Dashboard permissions | Operators and guest accounts can also create dashboards |
Top N AS reports | Top N AS reports can be selected from the drop down |
Last 15, 30 Min reports | You can see the reports for the last 15 and 30 mins also, additional to the already existing time period options |
1, 5, 15 Min averages in traffic report | You have an option to view 1,5, 15 mins average data points in the traffic page |
Consolidated report for a device | Clicking on the device name / IP address from the interface view will let you drilldown and view the top 10 of interface by speed & utilization, top 10 protocols, applications, source, destination, DSCP, conversation of that particular device. |
Localization | NetFlow Analyzer also support Croatian, Spanish, Dutch. |
Feature | Description |
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Customizable dashboard | Users can create dashboard by placing the widgets as per their requirements. This enables easy understanding of the network behavior in one glance |
GRE application filter | Applying this filter in any cryptomap tunnel prevents the GRE traffic getting double counted. Otherwise, the cryptomap interface in which NetFlow is enabled double counts the GRE traffic. |
Support for MSSQL database | NetFlow Analyzer now supports MSSQL Database also. |
Email option for sending reports | This option allows the user to send a screenshot of a page to a particular mail ID |
DSCP names in alerts and IP groups | Now, an user can set alerts based on the DSCP names and also create IP groups to monitor application using particular DSCP names. |
Volume based billing | The next level of billing is here, after usage based billing. Users can generate bills based on the volume of data. |
Site-to-site traffic monitoring | Users can create groups for monitoring site-to-site traffic. |
Secondary DNS server lookup | This allows the system to go through DNS servers other than primary ones for resolving DNS names. |
Raw data storage | For users who do not need an in depth report and for whom storing large data is an issue, you can now store the raw data for as less as 1 hour. |
Feature | Description |
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Reporting on Cisco CBQoS | Useful for monitoring class based pre and post policy traffic usage, class based drops and queuing |
Authentication using radius server | Useful for centralized controlling of access to resources in a network by a single global set of credentials |
Ability to create IP groups with exclude IP address option | One could bulk load IP groups and selectively remove unwanted IP groups |
DNS resolving enhancement of source and destination addresses | Faster retrieval of DNS names made possible |
Support for user configurable DNS names for IP addresses | Customizable DNS names helps in easier management of the network |
Usage based billing | Generation of periodic bills for accounting and for charge-back. |
Reporting on source network and destination network | This allows the user to view the source networks, destination networks and conversation between them. |
Different IN and OUT speed can be configured for interfaces | Helps in setting appropriate speed for IN and OUT interfaces |
Support for exporting reports to CSV | Helps in easier maintenance of data for historical reporting besides the flexibility to import in XLS sheets for any analysis |
Sorting on the Autonomous Systems view for easier tracking and for peering arrangement | Ability to group together applications into a single logical entity |
Option to exclude ESP_App on user defined interfaces | Ensures that traffic is not double counted in case of ESP tunnels. |
Option to suppress output interface accounting on user defined interfaces | Useful when working with WAN accelarators |
Quick view traffic graph in Dashboard view | Offers Enhanced usability |
Graphs enhanced to one min granularity and also to real-time in Network Snapshot | Offers a more realistic reporting of the network health for quicker action to avoid any network eventuality |
Ability to set snmp parameters globally for all routers | Offers the flexibility to avoid havign to set the same SNMP parameters on each individual router |
Support for sorting of interfaces based on usage in Dashboard View | Helps in easier viewing of interfaces based on maximum/minimum bandwidth usage and for appropriate action |
User management enhanced to provide last login time and current login status for all users | Helps individual users to quickly confirm that one's login credentials have not been compromised |
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) |
User permission can be granted at a interface group level. | This feature would enable providing permission at an interface level while creating a user. |
Look and feel changed | The user interface has been changed for a better user experience |
Localization supported | NetFlow Analyzer supports French, German, Chinese and Japanese. |
Feature | Description |
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sFlow Support | Support for sFlow data capture and reporting |
Selectable Graph | Option to click and drag on the graph for easier drilldown |
Real-Time Reports | Real time reports with graphs. Updates immediately as the data is received |
Link Down alert | Alerting feature enhanced to send an alert when link goes down or when no flows are received for 15 minutes |
Enhanced Granularity | IN and OUT traffic (in bytes and packets) for each interface maintained with 1 minute granularity for upto 1 year |
Performance improvement | Performance improvement in IP group classification engine |
Google Map Integration | Integration with Google Maps for a better view of the network |
Application Grouping | Ability to group together applications into a single logical entity |
DSCP Mapping | Ability to report on DSCP mapping |
Feature | Description |
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NBAR based Reporting | NBAR(Network Based Application Recognition) - By intelligent classification of traffic lets you set QoS standard. |
Scheduling of Reports | Allows setting of time intervals at which network traffic reports are generated automatically and mailed to desired recipient(s). |
NetFlow V9 Support | Basic V9 support. |
Associating IP address to application | Associate IP address to an application in addition to port & protocol. |
Create Interface Groups | Ability to group interfaces together and monitor traffic. |
ToS & TCP_flag | Reports based on TCP flags & TOS can be generated from the Trouble-shooting page. |
Feature | Description |
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Threshold-based Alerting | Set up alerts based on link utilization and send emails or SNMP Traps when thresholds are exceeded. |
Troubleshooting | Retain raw data for longer time periods (up to 2 weeks) to enable increased visibility into traffic data for troubleshooting and alerts. |
Support link | Wide range of options to contact technical support in case of any problems running NetFlow Analyzer. |
Enhanced Router Settings | Specify whether router details need to be fetched based on IfName, IfAlias or IfDescription value. |
Dashboard View Filter | Filter Dashboard Interface View to display only those interfaces exceeding specific values of incoming or outgoing traffic. |
Traffic Graph Filters | Filter daily and weekly traffic graphs to show hour-based traffic details. |
Enhanced IP Group Management | Specify interfaces when creating IP groups to further filter traffic details for an IP group. |
Localized Versions | NetFlow Analyzer supports French, German, and Spanish along with Chinese and Japanese. |
Feature | Description |
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Web-based interface | Generate reports and perform administrative tasks from just a web browser |
Support for NetFlow export versions | As of release 4.0.2, NetFlow Analyzer includes support for NetFlow version 5 and version 7 exports |
Simply "turn on" NetFlow | Simply configure NetFlow export on your router or switch, and see it automatically added on the Dashboard |
Real-time Traffic Graphs | View instant graphs of bandwidth utilization per network interface as soon as NetFlow data is received |
Historical Trend Reports | Generate daily, weekly, monthly, and custom time period bandwidth reports showing peak traffic patterns |
Bandwidth Usage Reports | View reports showing top applications, top hosts, and top conversations using bandwidth |
Consolidated Reports | View bandwidth reports per interface, showing all details on bandwidth usage for that interface |
Autonomous Systems Reports | View AS and peering information for routers configured with BGP (useful for service providers) |
NetFlow Devices | Categorize devices exporting NetFlow into logical groups and monitor them exclusively |
IP Groups | Create departments based on IP addresses, ports, protocols, or interfaces and generate specific bandwidth usage reports |
Application Configuration | Identify most standard applications out-of-the-box and configure custom applications to recognize specific traffic |
User management | Add users with different privileges, assign device groups, and selectively allow access |
Localized setup | NetFlow Analyzer can be installed and run in Chinese and Japanese languages, with support for more languages being added frequently. Check the website for the latest list of languages localized, and also contribute to translation works. |
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