Get In-Depth Visibility Into Network Traffic With Netflow

NetFlow provides the answers to network mysteries like what types of traffic are running over the network and how your bandwidth is being used. Finally, you can identify traffic spikes caused by your team forwarding around the latest YouTube® video or the occasional lunch-hour Warcraft® tournament over in support. All you need to do is unlock the power of NetFlow! SolarWinds has partnered with Cisco to give you the tools you need to do just that.

Monitoring NetFlow Traffic with SolarWinds

SolarWinds Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture NetFlow data from continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom and for what purpose – enabling you to shut down the bandwidth hogs and unlock the power of NetFlow on your network.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Highlights:

• Monitors network traffic by capturing flow data from network devices, including Cisco® NetFlow v5 or v9
• Quickly and easily identifies which users, applications, and protocols are consuming the most network bandwidth
• Provides historical trends for WAN and LAN bandwidth usage to determine whether additional bandwidth needs to be purchased
• Monitors Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to verify that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are being met

Free NetFlow Tools from SolarWinds

If you’re just getting started with NetFlow, we have two free tools to help you on your traffic analysis quest: our free Real-time NetFlow Analyzer and our free NetFlow Configurator.

Real-time NetFlow Analyzer captures and analyzes up to one hour of NetFlow data in real time to show you what types of traffic are on your network, where that traffic is coming from, and where it is going. Take the guesswork out of diagnosing network traffic spikes and troubleshooting bandwidth issues with this free NetFlow monitoring tool!

With Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, you’ll get immediate visibility into NetFlow data and the ability to:

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and quickly remediate network slowdowns
• Easily identify which users, devices, and applications are consuming the most bandwidth
• Isolate inbound and outbound traffic by conversation, application, domain, endpoint, and protocol
• Personalize NetFlow data displays to view traffic by specified time periods (up to 60 minutes) and by traffic type

SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator is an easy-to-use free tool for remotely and quickly configuring NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco devices. The free NetFlow Configurator also facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening, and enabling monitoring of inbound and outbound (ingress/egress) traffic data per interface.