Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides detailed visibility into network traffic behavior and trends. By leveraging Cisco's NetFlow protocol to extract data from routers, this Orion module provides an in-depth view into which users and applications are consuming the most bandwidth. Easy-to-read charts and tables enable you to quickly isolate the cause of network problems and plan for future capacity based on historical traffic trends.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer displays network traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface, and protocol. Integration with Orion offers deep drill-down across traffic patterns and into device performance, resulting in unprecedented visibility into usage, performance, and availability statistics. Competitive offerings merely infer and estimate utilization data.

The new Orion NTA gives users enhanced functionality that makes analyzing network traffic and bandwidth usage even easier.

Features:

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer highlights include:

• Optimizes network resource allocation and speeds troubleshooting of network problems with quick access to network traffic data

• Profiles user and application bandwidth consumption patterns

• Scales to monitor interfaces with multi-gigabit throughput

• Enables long-term storage of NetFlow data

• Improves overall network performance and availability

New in version 3.6:

• Improved Performance and Usability
  • Enable Top Talker Optimization to boost collection performance up to 10x and reduce system resource and disk usage
  • View CBQoS data in interface detail views without having to enable NetFlow on source interfaces
  • Find settings more easily with new NTA admin area reorganization
  
  
• Customizable Rate-based Charts
  • Choose between rate (Kbps), percent interface speed, percent of total traffic, or total transferred per time unit (same as today)
  • Choose between stack charts or line charts


• Advanced Application Mapping
  • Use IP address(es) or ranges in combination with port(s) to define an application
  • Parse web traffic into discrete applications (e.g. YouTube versus Salesforce.com)
  
  
• New and Improved IP Address Groups
  • Create IP address groups that include multiple ranges and IP addresses
  • Analyze how network traffic is behaving geographically