SonicWALL 232-000861-00 manual Supported Protocols & Other Technical Specifications

Supported Protocols & Other Technical Specifications

•Granularly define reports down to specific interfaces across multiple routers, switches, or firewalls

•Easily integrate 3rd party application and URLs into dashboards

•Integrates with LDAP servers

•Support for SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3

•Support for all industry standard flow analytics (IPFIX, NetFlow v5, NetFlow v9, FnF, sFlow, J-Flow)

•Configurable to over 1000 interfaces and several hundred exporters

•Create filters based upon next routing hop

•Filter on any exported field such as VLAN id, L2 Address, L3 Address, and latency

•Immediate cost savings by not requiring the purchase of an expensive Microsoft Database server

•Capable of handling up to 20,000 flows per second on an unlimited number of UDP ports

From a technological stand-point Scrutinizer leaves similar priced flow analyzer products in the dust. Scrutinizer’s robust and superior features such as LDAP integration and support for every industry standard flow protocol in the market today provide enormous value. When configured appropriately the Scrutinizer engine can receive up to 20,000 flows per second on over 1,000 different interfaces. Customizable dashboard ‘mashups’ allow for 3rd party applications and URLs to be imported directly into Scrutinizer making it the only application needed to know exactly what’s on the network.

Troubleshooting

•Easily identify link failures

•Easily identify specific link traffic statistics

•Easily identify QoS across the network by analyzing jitter & latency

•Easily find out where the ‘slowness’ on the network is occurring

•Plan for network growth

Administrators can use Scrutinizer to monitor the volume of traffic on their network and analyze how it is fluctuates over time. In fact, Scrutinizer’s ‘network volume gadget’ feature can be utilized to see the number of unique hosts and well known applications being accessed. This report shows trending information on the number of hosts accessing the network providing the IT administrator with insight into increases over time. Additionally, reports can be limited by time range (such as 9am to 5pm) to monitor network traffic volume during peak business hours.

Scrutinizer can also be used to identify bottlenecks on the network. For example, when streaming video or VoIP is deployed on the network, automatic alerts could be configured in Scrutinizer to email the IT administrator notifying him of packet-loss, delays in packets arrival, or packets arriving out of order. This provides an IT admin the ability to proactively know of call quality degradation even before users complain of an issue.

Visibility

•Trend analysis reports on archived data

•Easily see the top 5 interface across all routers, switches & firewalls

•Integrated Google Maps viewing allows for visual representations of distributed network

•Flexible viewing options allow data to be seen from different angles (pie, bar, matrix, line)

Various viewing options within Scrutinizer, such as the matrix view provide an innovative tool for better visualization of traffic flows. Based on criteria established when the report is generated, administrators can toggle to different views to see a graphical map of where traffic is flowing. The ‘Matrix’ enables administrators to easily visualize which systems a particular host has been accessing.

SonicWALL Scrutinizer 9.0.1 Release Notes

P/N 232-000861-00 Rev A

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