Configuration and management of flow data retention policies.Configuration of role-based management for user access to configuration and reports.Automatic tuning and filtering of “noise flows” so all flows are accurately reported.Automatic discovery and configuration of flow sources via SNMP.Top NBAR Applications and Class-based QoS reports.Interface Overview reports with 95th percentile reporting.Display traffic information by bytes, packets or flows.Access to WHOIS information for sender and receiver reports.Integration of flow data with WhatsUp Gold dashboard reports.Sort and display filtered reports by protocol, application, host, domain, TLD, country, groups or type of service.User configuration of all reports to display flow information in custom formats.Automated rollup of flow data with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views.Access to 21 flow management reports via the WhatsUp Gold Web console.Exposure of unauthorized applications, including file and music sharing.Automatic identification of high traffic flows to un-monitored ports and highlighting of those ports as candidates for monitoring.Group flow data by source or port, so that flows can be mapped to business structures, applications and organizations.Group flow data by IP addresses by domain, TLD or country.

Conduct traffic identification and analysis for LAN and WAN for Quality of Service through ToS or DSCP.

Pinpoint internal and external traffic sources and destinations.

Classify, filter and report on flow sources based on ASN (BGP Routing).

Identification of traffic destination by group, domain, top level domain (TLD) and country.

Identification of traffic sources (top talkers) and destinations.

Identification of traffic flow patterns through the network in real-time.Automatic classification of traffic by type and protocol in real-time, including NBAR traffic.Extensive support for Cisco Nexus (virtual networks).Extensive support for switches, wireless networks and routers from Cisco, Juniper, Meru, Ruckus, Foundry, Extreme, Enterasys and Packeteer.Support for Cisco’s NetFlow v1, v5, v9 sFlow v5 Juniper Network’s J-Flow format, standard IPFIX and Cisco NSEL (Network Security Event Logging) formats.

Features & Benefits: Features: Flow Monitoring Basics

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