Visualise network utilisation and performance

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor provides in-depth insight into how your network is performing. Available as a fully integrated plug-in to WhatsUp Gold, the WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor lets you gather, analyse and report on traffic patterns and bandwidth utilisation on your networks in real-time. It highlights not only overall utilisation for the LAN or WAN, specific device or interface, but also indicates users, applications and protocols that are consuming abnormal amounts of bandwidth.

Get Control of Your Bandwidth
It is not enough just to keep the network running 7 x 24 x 365 days a year any longer, you also have to know how the network is being used in order to ensure optimal performance. A slow network impacts your business and not understanding where traffic bottlenecks exist or where bandwidth consumption is higher than normal can sometimes lead to misdiagnosis of problems.

Get 360˚ Visibility into How Your Network is Being Used
WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor gathers information from NetFlow enabled switches and routers allowing you to analyse and report on network traffic patterns. It provides instant insight into how efficiently your network is performing and how bandwidth is utilised. Misbehaving applications and users that are inappropriately consuming bandwidth can be rapidly identified.

The WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor displays top talkers by IP address on your network and destinations both within and outside of your network, so you can understand if YouTube video downloads are impacting overall performance or business critical applications are starved for bandwidth. Network security is also enhanced with reporting of failed connections to interfaces that can indicate external attacks on your network by protocol type and TCP port address.

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor also supports compliance from both legal and licensing perspectives, as it can detect unauthorised file sharing or music sharing applications that can result in legal liability. These applications may also contain mechanisms that can introduce viruses and worms into the corporate network, so their early detection and de-installation is critical.

Comprehensive reporting built into WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor takes the raw real-time network traffic data from routers and switches and presents you with useful information to understand trends, utilisation, and where bandwidth is being consumed. The WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor reporting provides real-time NetFlow data as well as rolled-up data for historical trend analysis. NetFlow reports can also be integrated with WhatsUp Gold’s comprehensive reporting capabilities to present a consolidated view of network performance. The fully configurable reports can be filtered based upon any definable parameters in the NetFlow workspace.

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor is designed as a scalable solution and, depending on network size, offers you the flexibility to either install it fully integrated with WhatsUp Gold or as a separate, dedicated NetFlow Monitor installation for enterprise networks with large amounts of measureable traffic.

• Understanding of bandwidth utilisation by user, protocol and application
• Reporting of various network statistics (top hosts, protocols, applications, conversations)
• Viewing which applications are being used and by whom
• Pinpointing of internal and external traffic sources and destinations
• Conducting traffic identification and analysis for LAN and WAN for Quality of Service for ToS or DSCP
• Identifying heavily loaded switches, routers or interfaces
• Gaining insight into traffic patterns to external destinations delineated by domain, TLD or country
• Rapid recognition and classification of external attacks by protocol and port address
• Capturing NetFlow data with no requirement for expensive hardware probes
• Comprehensive support of network devices that provide NetFlow export capabilities, including:
• Cisco
• Juniper (cflowd)
• Enterasys
• Foundry
• Extreme
• Packeteer

The WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor plug-in is available for all editions of WhatsUp Gold (Premium, Distributed, Standard and MSP Editions).

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor Key Benefits

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor lets you understand how your network infrastructure is utilised, allowing you to:

Get Control:
Understand what resources are accessed and when they are accessed to prevent misuse and to establish operational policies. You control the network, not the users.

Understand Network Performance:
Know exactly what traffic is on the network and what traffic is impacting your network performance, instantly. Pinpoint and troubleshoot traffic problems while they are occurring.

Track Changes:
Review how traffic patterns have changed over time and understand the impact of routing, firewall, DNS or other configuration changes in the network.

Optimise Business Effectiveness:
Rapidly understand what you can do to optimise your network to support your business objectives. Make sure that critical business applications are not strangled by YouTube or other non-business applications.

Increase Network Security:
Detect unauthorised music and file sharing applications and uncover attacks directed at your network. Keep your network secure and ensure audit and legal compliance.

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