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Geek Guide to NetFlow

Need to figure out who's holed up on your network watching Hulu™ and who's winning the award for the most Warcraft® played during business hours? In this Geek Guide, we do a deep dive on using NetFlow to find network bottlenecks and shut down bandwidth hogs. These videos, webcasts, free tools, and resources are sure to supercharge your network traffic management skills!

HEAD GEEK NETFLOW TIPS

Turning on Cisco NetFlow can be tricky. So consult the vendor's documentation and be sure that you match the UDP port used for transport on both the exporter and the collector.

Stop the NetFlow traffic jam. Consider how much traffic you have and how it's configured. You may not want to send NetFlow data from a data center to a NetFlow collector on the other side of a small WAN circuit.

Learn how to analyze NetFlow data and shut down bandwidth hogs with Orion NTA.

New to Networking Volume 3: NetFlow Basics and Deployment Strategies

New to Networking Volume 3: NetFlow Basics and Deployment Strategies.

Technical Analysis of Deep Dive: A NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow®, and IPFIX

Learn how network traffic flow protocols like NetFlow, JFlow, SFlow, and IPFix work.

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Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer analyzes NetFlow, J-Flow, and sFlow® data and performs CBQoS monitoring to deliver a complete picture of network traffic, identifying who & what are consuming your bandwidth.

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The Orion Power Pack combines three of our most popular products into one supercharged bundle that will take your network management to the next level!

Orion NPM delivers comprehensive fault and performance management across multi-vendor networks of any size.
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Orion NTA provides deep visibility into network traffic behavior and trends by leveraging NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow data.