NetFlow Analyzer Review

Monitor Network Bandwidth And Traffic With Ease

NetFlow Analyzer has a rich set of network bandwidth and traffic monitoring features that help users understand and address network slowness and bandwidth delays. To clearly visualize how bandwidth is being used on their network, the software classifies traffic based on applications, interfaces, protocols, and hosts. Thus, users will be able to determine which of their applications are consuming the most bandwidth and who are the ones using the most bandwidth.

The software is also built with a customizable dashboard that shows statistics on bandwidth usage. Because of this, users can identify the top talkers or those hosts, applications, and conversations across a specific interface that are using the most bandwidth.

NetFlow Analyzer can present how bandwidth is being used at different time intervals. Thus, it allows users to view bandwidth usage on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. This way, they will be able to track bandwidth usage patterns and traffic trends, and see how traffic grow over a period of time.

Troubleshoot Traffic Spikes

NetFlow Analyzer ensures that the root causes of network issues and spikes in network traffic are immediately identified. Thus, the software helps users detect spikes in network traffic that affect the performance of applications and result in network outage, and at the same time, enables them to pinpoint what exactly generated such spikes. Through the aid of its advanced forensic reports, users will be able to access specific historical data and drill down into specific parameters so they can troubleshoot network spikes faster and more effectively.

Threshold Based Alerting

The network monitoring software delivers a threshold based alerting capability. This means it sends alerts and notifications when the bandwidth and traffic utilization goes beyond the threshold settings defined by users. Bandwidth usage limits can be set per groups of IPs or devices. As users set bandwidth usage limits, they can also specify the time periods when those limits will be applied. In addition, they can set how often bandwidth and traffic utilization is allowed to exceed the threshold before the software sends an alert.

Capacity Planning

NetFlow Analyzer offers capacity planning capabilities which assist users in measuring their bandwidth growth and create plans so they can adapt to their evolving IT environment and prepare for their future needs. The software permits them to pinpoint bottlenecks in bandwidth usage as well as wasted bandwidth.

Monitor Traffic From iPhone App

NetFlow Analyzer has a mobile app for iPhone which enables users to monitor LAN and WAN traffic from any location and at anytime. Through this app, they can access interface traffic information, traffic trends based on application, user, and conversation, color-coded alarms, and more.

Optimize App Performance

Network efficiency is critical to productivity, which can be directly impacted by the number of apps and services across a network. NetFlow Analyzer’s Network Manager can investigate problems with app performance using QoS-related reports. Issues, when identified can be corrected by configuring the appropriate service class for a particular app. The tool makes sure that appropriate levels of service are available for critical applications.

Protocol/Application Monitoring

To ensure that key applications are prioritized on your network, the software monitors these tools via application mapping and grouping. Administrators are likewise provided with a clear view of what apps are running over the network and the bandwidth that they are consuming. Application prioritization is ensured as the system easily views protocol distribution.

Medianet Reports

Network Analyzer can provide a richer user experience through a tool called Cisco Medianet, which is a network designed for media traffic. What it does is optimize network performance even if it is littered with rich media traffic, which are known to consume a lot of bandwidth. The tool likewise simplifies problems with media rich traffic transmissions while speeding up content delivery.

Integrated Network Management

To wrap it up, the platform’s OpManager Plus network management suite can manage different aspects of a network, which include network performance, bandwidth traffic analysis, network configuration, IP address and switch port and firewall log analysis. It also provides a clear view of a network from a single console.