Fluke Recording Equipment Installation

Installation

The type of system required to run NetFlow Tracker depends on the number of devices

sending NetFlow information to it and the amount and na ture of traffic handled by

those devices. The following requirements are a guide line; the only way to determine

your requirements is by testing the software’s perform ance in your network

environment.

•Single processor of Pentium III, Pentium IV or Xeon clas s, although multiple

processors will provide a modest performance incre ase.

•1GB RAM, although performance will increase with the amo unt of RAM available

for the disk cache and database buffers.

•High performance disk subsystem with substantial free space – the exact nature of

this is dependent on system load. For all but the lightest of loads, a server RAID

card running RAID 5 over at least three high-performan ce disks is recommended.

NetFlow Tracker stores and queries full informatio n for a week; a busy enterprise

router can generate in the order of 20GB of NetFlow inform ation in this time.

•Microsoft Windows2000 or above; server versions will provide better

performance due to more advanced disk caching and mem ory management.

•Solaris8or above (Intel-compatible or Sparcprocessors).

•Any modern Linux distribution capable of running Java 1.4.2 and MySQL5.0

(Intel-compatible processors).

Before installing, there are a few things you need to check:

•NetFlow Tracker puts a heavy load on the system. It is str ongly recommended that

you install it on a dedicated server.

•You must be logged in as an administrator in order to instal l the software.

•NetFlow Tracker uses MySQL to provide database ser vices. Due to the large

database size and optimised structure, MySQL must b e configured in a way that

would seriously degrade the performance of many other types of software that use

MySQL. Thus it is recommended that no other MySQL-dep endent software be

installed on the server running NetFlow Tracker.

•The version of MySQL used by NetFlow Tracker is signif icantly different to that

used by Fluke Networks’ products NetFlow Monitor, Ne tWatch and

ResponseWatch. If NetFlow Tracker is installed on a server running one of these

products it will not function correctly. Likewise, if one of these products is installed

on a server running NetFlow Tracker, both products are likely not to function

correctly.