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 NetFlow Network Traffic Monitor lets you gather, analyze and report on network traffic patterns and bandwidth utilization in real-time. It highlights not only overall utilization for the LAN or WAN, specific device or interface, but also indicates users, applications and protocols that are consuming abnormal amounts of bandwidth.

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NetFlow Network Traffic Monitoring with WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor

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

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NetFlow Analyzer:
Get 360˚ Visibility and Monitor Network Traffic
WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor gathers information from NetFlow enabled switches and routers allowing you to analyze and report on network traffic patterns. It provides instant insight into how efficiently your network is performing and how bandwidth is utilized. 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 network security compliance from both legal and licensing perspectives, as it can detect unauthorized 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 through network traffic monitoring 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, utilization, and where network bandwidth is being consumed. WhatsUp Gold NetFlow network traffic monitoring and reporting provides real-time NetFlow data as well as rolled-up data for historical trend analysis. NetFlow traffic reports can also be integrated with WhatsUp Gold’s comprehensive reporting capabilities to present a consolidated view of network performance. The fully configurable network traffic reports can be filtered based upon any definable parameters in the NetFlow workspace.

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Network Traffic 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 network management software or as a separate, dedicated NetFlow Monitor installation for enterprise networks with large amounts of measureable network traffic.

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor Highlights:

Understanding of network bandwidth utilization 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 network 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 Network Traffic Monitoring Benefits

WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor lets you understand how your network infrastructure is utilized, 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, troubleshoot and monitor network traffic problems while they are occurring.

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

Optimize Business Effectiveness:
Rapidly understand what you can do to optimize your network traffic 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 unauthorized 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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