WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor
Network traffic monitoring
Visualize network bandwidth utilization and network performance
Flow Monitoring Basics
- Support for Cisco’s NetFlow v1, v5, v9; sFlow v5; Juniper Network’s J-Flow format
- Dedicated SQL Server database
- Extensive support for switches and routers from Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Extreme, Enterasys and Packeteer
- Choice of either integrated install with WhatsUp Gold as a plug-in or separate Flow Monitor package installation
- Complete integration with WhatsUp Gold Alert Center
Monitoring/Troubleshooting Capabilities
- Automatic classification of traffic by type and protocol in real-time
- Identification of traffic flow patterns through the network in real-time
- Identification of traffic sources (top talkers) and destinations
- Identification of traffic destination by group, domain, top level domain (TLD), and country
- Pinpointing of internal and external traffic sources and destinations
- Conducting traffic identification and analysis for LAN and WAN for Quality of Service through ToS or DSCP
- Grouping of flow data based on common parameters, including IP addresses by domain, TLD or country
- Automatic identification of high traffic flows to un-monitored ports and highlighting of those ports as candidates for monitoring
- Exposure of unauthorized applications, including file and music sharing
- Detection of failed connections
Reporting
- Access to 21 flow management reports via WhatsUp Gold web console
- Automated rollup of flow data with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views
- User configuration of all reports to display flow information in custom formats
- Sorts and displays filtered reports by protocol, application, host, domain, TLD, country, groups or type of service
- Integration of flow reports with WhatsUp Gold workspace reports
- Access to WHOIS information for sender and receiver reports
- Display traffic information by bytes, packets or flows
Configuration and Management
- Configuration of flow sources
- Configuration of role based management for user access to configuration and reports
- Configuration and management of flow data retention policies
- Configuration of flow logging levels
- Configurable support for non-standard ports and proprietary protocols
- Starting and stopping of flow services
- Setting of address resolution levels
- Access to flow database and service status, providing instant views of database parameters and running flow services
- Backup and restoration of flow database
- Apply custom names to flow interfaces
- Notification of database status