Fluke Recording Equipment Introduction

Introduction

This document is the user manual for NetFlow Tracker, a s oftware product designed to

collect NetFlow information from Cisco equipment a nd present it in a meaningful way.

This document does not provide any assistance with Cisco equipment itself. Please

consult your Cisco documentation for any queries you h ave relating to the equipment

itself. For more information on NetFlow from the Cisco w ebsite, go to

http://www.cisco.com/go/netflow.

Anetwork flow is a sequence of packets between a given s ource and destination in one

direction only. Cisco routers store and export informa tion about the network flows they

handle for network management purposes; high-end routers and switches use network

flows to accelerate security processing. In order to di stinguish flows from one another,

the source and destination addresses and applicati on (TCP/UDP) port numbers are

used. The IP Type of Service byte, protocol type and the ifIndex of the input interface

are also used to uniquely identify the flow to which a pac ket belongs.

NetFlow Tracker provides a powerful but easy-to-use se t of dynamic charts and reports

to help the network administrator make sense of the N etFlow information provided by

his routers. The focus is on troubleshooting and diagnosti cs; long-term analysis is not

catered for.

•Highly detailed view of network traffic without the ne ed for costly probes.

•Web-based front end allows users anywhere on the network to use the system.

•Straightforward installation and configuration.

•Can be installed on Windows, Linux and Solaris based servers.

•Per-minute resolution.

•Traffic statistics visible just minutes after the event.

•Allows rapid diagnosis of network congestion and failure.

•Useful when configuring QoS to examine the effect of a change in policy.

•Stores one week of full information by default.

•All real-time reports and charts can be filtered on any fi eld.

•Every real-time report and chart allows drilldown on each row or area.

•Every real-time chart allows zooming in and drilling dow n on a selected time range.

•Custom long-term reports and charts can be created.

•Custom executive reports can be defined and easily acce ssed.

•Every report and chart can be formatted as CSV for furthe r processing.