NetFlow Analyzer can seamlessly integrate with the network
monitoring tool, OpManager, one of AdventNet's ManageEngine
suite of products. If you are using both OpManager and NetFlow
Analyzer in your network, you can automatically view LAN device
details along with the detailed interface traffic reports
of NetFlow Analyzer from OpManager. From the interface snapshot
page, a link to access the NetFlow Analyzer's traffic reports
is provided.
Pre-requisites are:
Both OpManager and NetFlow Analyzer must be up and running
in your network.
The interface whose traffic you would like to monitor
must be discovered in both OpManager and NetFlow Analyzer.
The NetFlow Analyzer settings must be properly configured
in OpManager.
To configure the NetFlow Analyzer Settings in OpManager
Click Admin tab
From Global Settings column, click Add-On/Products Settings
Click NetFlow Settings icon in this screen
Type the following NetFlow Analyzer server details:
Server Name
Port (default is 8080)
User Name
Password
Polling Interval in mins
Save the settings.
After configuring the settings, you can follow the steps
given below to see the detailed reports:
Go to the Routers Map
Click the required router to see its snapshot page
Scroll down and click the interface whose traffic report
you would like to see
The interface snapshot page is displayed
In the Interface Traffic details column, click the NetFlow
Analyzer icon. You will see the detailed traffic report.
Note: You will be prompted to log on with the NetFlow
Analyzer's administrator user name and password the first
time you view the report.
As a network manager you need to be on top of your network to be in control of the day-to-day happenings in your network. Especially, with more and more businesses being increasingly dependent on the internet, it is very vital that you are in total control of your network.Any network outage has to be quickly attended to and fixed right away. More importantly any network incidents has to be pro-actively attended to. NetFlow Analyzer with its proactive alerting mechanisms ensure that you are informed of any network exceptions as it happens. Also the drill down features let you quickly pin down the cause of any network problems and troubleshoot faster.
It is also very essential that you ensure your business critical applications are not starved off bandwidth while non-critical activities like music downloads hog the available bandwidth. By giving you an indepth visibility in to your network and the bandwidth usage statistics you can appropriately set QoS policies. It is also possible to categorize applications that consume bandwidth by port, protocol and IP address. This way you can be fully empowered to ensure that the business critical applications always have the required bandwidth.
As a network administrator you need to have all the reports to take the right decision. Especially when it comes to bandwidth capacity planning decisions the stakes involved are high and even a small mistake can cost huge money. NetFlow Analyzer with its long range historical reporting lets you take the right decisions. Also as a network administrator you need to have periodic reporting to understand how the network is performing. NetFlow Analyzer's automatic report generation feature at scheduled time periods help you with just that.
Should you need any specific information at any point in time, you could just access the application for a quick snapshot. NetFlow Analyzer's dashboard presnet you with all the vital metrics you need to eb aware on as an administrator. You could drill down on it for any further infromation on any specific element of your network.
