NetFlow-based Network Traffic Analysis with NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer
The complexities of today’s network require network-wide visibility into the  composition of traffic on every link. A Performance-First approach to network traffic analysis provides visibility into the source of any performance problem, validates the impact of planned and unplanned changes within the network, and avoids unnecessary WAN costs.
NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer, the network traffic analysis module of the NetQoS Performance Center, gives network professionals insight into how application traffic is impacting network performance. With the ability to harvest flow statistics via Cisco IOS® NetFlow, IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX), sFlow, and J-Flow enabled routers and switches, ReporterAnalyzer continues to be recognized as the industry standard for NetFlow reporting and network traffic analysis in Global 4000 enterprises.
 ReporterAnalyzer is the only NetFlow analysis product that scales to the world's largest networks, providing real-time visibility into network traffic throughout the infrastructure. ReporterAnalyzer is uniquely capable of accessing one year of enterprise-wide NetFlow monitoring data with no data roll-ups and reporting on 100 percent of NetFlow traffic for the entire network. ReporterAnalyzer also identifies the applications and hosts that are consuming the most bandwidth during a specified time period, enabling you to make timely and cost-effective decisions for optimizing and improving network service delivery.
NetFlow analysis in NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer provides visibility into who and what is consuming network bandwidth
How Will NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer Help You?
1. Make more informed infrastructure investments
- View the impact of application rollouts across the infrastructure
- Evaluate better and less expensive alternatives to costly upgrades via NetFlow export by identifying who and what consumes bandwidth
- Spot potential bottlenecks with intelligent baselines and NetFlow anomaly detection capabilities
2. Solve Performance Problems Faster
- View real-time NetFlow monitoring reports and alarms for every interface on the network
- View who and what consumes WAN bandwidth to isolate and resolve problems
- Receive alerts and run customizable reports to assess the scope of potentially malicious traffic
3. Optimize the network infrastructure for application performance
- Visualize quality of service policy utilization versus application performance
- Analyze trend projections in bandwidth consumption for every application
- Validate QoS configuration changes within the network
Features
High-Level Operations View
- Red/Yellow indicators for interfaces over a defined threshold and duration
- Top interfaces, protocols, and hosts across your entire network in a single report
Traffic Analysis Reports
- Rate, volume, and utilization measurements by every flow field
- Applications defined by a combination of ports, IP address, and QoS policy
- Real-time reports and alarms at one-minute granularity for every interface on the network
- Eight-hour, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or customizable reporting time periods
- Baseline views and anomaly detection capabilities to identify abnormal traffic
QoS Reporting
- Analyze trends in applications, hosts, and conversations per QoS policy
- Determine if applications are being classified appropriately with real-time visibility into QoS policy utilization
Flow Forensics
- Track 100% of all flow traffic on the network
- Identify malicious behavior with all IP conversations
- Set rate, volume, and count thresholds based on flows, packets, or bytes
Data Storage Capability
- Retain and access over a year of enterprise-wide flow data with no data roll-ups
- Report on 100% of flow traffic for the entire network for 30 days
Analysis and Real-time Alarms
- Threshold alarms with suppression for applications exceeding bandwidth requirements
- View threshold violations in high-level charts and tables
Custom Reports
- Combine multiple reporting criteria into groups
- Customize time periods, reporting formats, and sampling resolutions
- Display the data from any NetFlow field in a single report
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