What is Network Traffic Monitoring?

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based real time network traffic monitoring tool, being used by more than 4000 enterprises, that analyzes NetFlow exports from Cisco routers to provide in-depth information about network traffic including, traffic volume, top talkers, bandwidth consumption, and high usage times. The information provided by NetFlow Analyzer helps IT in the following tasks:

• Identifying Top Talkers and Conversations in the network: Determine which users and what applications are using maximum bandwidth, and drill down for conversational details. Read more about Bandwidth monitoring
• Monitoring and projecting Traffic Trends and Usage Patterns: View trends in network traffic manager, and determine top applications and peak usage times. Read more about Network traffic analysis.
• Defining Applications to Monitor Network Traffic: Use a combination of ports and protocols to define unlimited applications, and recognize this traffic exclusively in traffic reports. You can also mention a particular IP address to map an application.
• Department based Bandwidth monitoring per Department: Define departments based on IP addresses, and identify bandwidth usage and application usage for each department.
• Managing Devices Exclusively: Categorize devices and group them data into logical groups, and monitor traffic reports exclusively, for the groups.
• Increased accounting: Improve resource utilization accounting with real-time bandwidth and network usage statistics. Read more on billing / accounting
• Site to site traffic monitoring - lets you in monitoring network traffic between two specific sites, which are created based on IP Address or IP Network. This feature helps you understand the network traffic behaviour between any two user defined sites.
• All the netflow analyzer features...

How to monitor network traffic?

Traditional Network traffic manager tools analyze using hardware probes or packet analyzers to offer granular and detailed information on network traffic. However, hardware probes require complex deployment procedures, and typically do not account for IPsec traffic. And packet analyzers flood you with results that do not offer direct insight into application-specific traffic in the network. As a result, IT department is faced with an increased troubleshooting cycle, and an extended time to make critical decisions affecting the network.

Today with Cisco’s NetFlow innovation ( and other flows from other vendors), our network traffic monitoring tool takes far less time and effort, and yields much bigger benefits to the enterprise. NetFlow makes traffic monitoring possible by collecting granular details on IP traffic continuously, without affecting device performance or increasing costs. Using this exported NetFlow data, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer gives network administrators/managers the visibility that they require to understand the WAN. Armed with powerful instant reports on top talkers, conversations, and more, this network traffic monitor tells IT exactly what they need to know in order to troubleshoot or make informed capacity planning decisions.

NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based network traffic monitor that analyzes NetFlow exports from Cisco routers to monitor network traffic metrics including, traffic volume, traffic speed, packets, top talkers, bandwidth utilization, and high usage times. There are various reports that can be obtained from NetFlow Analyzer. This network traffic management software is very simple to deploy and start working with. You can install NetFlow Analyzer on a Windows or Linux machine, and use a web browser to access the client interface. After installing, set up your Cisco routers/switches to export NetFlow data to this network traffic monitoring software. Within minutes, traffic graphs are plotted and reports are automatically generated by this network traffic monitoring software, and you are all set to monitor traffic in your network.

Exporting flows in NetFlow Analyzer is a simple and effortless process and can be done in a single click. NetFlow analyzer gives you an overview of your network's bandwidth usage statistics at a glance via it's customizable dashboard and inventory as soon as the devices are discover. Users can then drill down in to the interfaces to view information on the traffic, application, source, destination, conversation, DSCP and QoS of the traffic. Detailed reports with one-minute granularity can be generated based on these critical parameters data.

With NetFlow Analyzer you can monitor traffic and do much more!

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NetFlow Analyzer is a NetFlow, sFlow, JFLow (and more) collector and analyzing engine integrated together. This network traffic monitoring tool solution 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 helps you as a network traffic management software to monitor network traffic and bandwidth utilization.

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