You must purchase the Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer license that coordinates with your underlying Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) license. For instance, if you own Orion NPM SLX, then you would purchase the NetFlow Traffic Analyzer for Orion NPM SLX license.

Orion NPM is licensed by the largest number of the three following element types:

• Interfaces: interfaces include switch ports, physical interfaces, virtual interfaces, sub-interfaces, VLANs, and any other single point of network traffic.
• Nodes: nodes include entire devices, for example, routers, switches, servers, access points, and modems.
• Volumes: volumes are equal to the logical drives you monitor.

The following list provides the different types of Orion licenses available:

• Up to 100 objects (SL100)
• Up to 250 objects (SL250)
• Up to 500 objects (SL500)
• Up to 2000 objects (SL2000)
• Unlimited objects (SLX)

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can collect data from all devices that support NetFlow v5, NetFlow v9, sFlow, J-Flow or Huawei for Netstream™. NetFlow v9 devices are supported using NetFlow v5 data formats.

Yes, Orion NTA supports all Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) models.

Flow-enabled devices, such as routers and switches produced by Cisco Systems®, HP®, Foundry Networks®, Juniper Networks®, Nortel Networks®, Huawei and other leading vendors, provide a wealth of IP-related traffic information. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer collects this NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow, Huawei for Netstream™ and IPFIX data and correlates it into a useable format.

Presenting the data side-by-side with detailed network performance data collected by Orion NPM, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer delivers easily read graphs and reports on bandwidth use in and to your network. These reports help you monitor bandwidth, track conversations between internal and external endpoints, analyze traffic, and plan bandwidth capacity needs.