Maybe for layer 3 routing stuff). Basically netflow shows you traffic flow data (connection based stuff). SNMP shows counters. SNMP can be used for stuff like bytes/frames/packets in and out, CPU load ...

NetFlow doesn’t track application layer information. While you can get a lot of information about what hosts are doing from stuff like port numbers, packet sizes, and IP addresses, you don’t have ...

Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don’t put anyone in jail. What is ...

Flow data is already generated by most network devices. There has always been sufficient justification to collect and look at flow data if only to get a picture of what your network is being used for.

Managing bandwidth needs and consumption is a discipline that has existed since the first 150bps modems connected computer systems together. Today, with multi-gigabit links becoming an everyday ...

Data center operators serving customers that provide services for low-latency-critical applications such as electronic trading, multi-player gaming, Voice over Internet Protocol or video conferencing ...

I have a customer in the US that has work done overseas. We want to monitor / analyze / account for what exactly is being done and what network traffic is comming in and out on two interfaces of their ...