Flow Monitor monitors and analyses flow data either from your flow enabled network switches and routers or from your non-flow capable devices using Flow Publisher, or both.
Flow Monitor Helps Ensure Network Performance and QoS
Available as a fully integrated plug-in to WhatsUp Gold, Flow Monitor provides detailed insight into exactly how your network bandwidth and capacity are utilized.
Flow Monitor not only highlights the overall utilization of the LAN, WAN, specific device, or interface, it also indicates which users, applications and protocols are consuming the bandwidth.
For business critical applications, Flow Monitor enables you to easily conduct traffic identification and analysis, as well as verify Quality of Service (QoS) through ToS, or DSCP for the LAN/WAN.
With WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor, you can ensure application performance and save money, by eliminating costly bandwidth utilization issues.
With WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor you can:
- Determine exactly which users, applications or hosts are consuming network bandwidth
- Track and resolve network traffic or congestion problems
- Monitor the network for unauthorized application usage; easily detect streaming audio, video, or file sharing applications
- Ensure critical business applications get the bandwidth they need
- Detect DOS attacks and other rogue activity directed at your network
- Use Flow Publisher and do it all with you existing hardware, no upgrade required
Support for Popular Flow Formats
In a single plug-in, Flow Monitor offers support for all the popular flow management formats, including NetFlow, sFlow and J-Flow and with an extensive list of switches and routers from vendors such as Cisco, Extreme, Juniper, HP, and many more.
Flow Monitor also collects NetFlow compliant records from WhatsUp Flow Publisher – through which it provides visibility into application, host and user traffic across all non-flow capable devices.
Visibility into Network Bandwidth Utilization
Attempting to diagnose a slow network without visibility into QoS and exactly what traffic is causing the problem, is really only seeing a tiny part of the picture. With WhatsUp Gold's Flow Monitor, you have the complete real-time visibility you need to manage bandwidth utilization and ensure optimal network performance.
Comprehensive Reporting
Flow Monitor collects NetFlow, sFlow and J-Flow records from routers and switches and converts them into useful reports which track real-time usage as well as historical trends.
Flow Monitor reports can be integrated with WhatsUp Gold's core reporting to present a consolidated view of network performance.
Threshold Based Alerting
In conjunction with the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center, Flow Monitor makes it easy to find out exactly where and when problems may develop. You can now set up multiple configurable thresholds tracking the volume of traffic between conversation pairs, failed connections per host, top senders and receivers, and specific interfaces over time.
Flow Monitor's custom configurable thresholds provide even more granular tracking of network traffic.
With the combined Flow Monitor and WhatsUp Gold solution, alerts are sent when the configured thresholds are exceeded, enabling network managers to proactively troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks and eliminate malicious network behavior.
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Flow monitoring lets you find the solution. Easily view flows between networks, devices and servers. Identify problem applications, protocols and services.
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Start using flow technology within your existing network by deploying the FlowPublisher agent. Keep your existing legacy network devices, but add valuable flow data collection - and then move it to any segment of your network.
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Easily identify problem applications and protocols on your Windows servers, and plan for upgrades, moves and changes using a simple, visual representation of your server data flows.
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Finding performance bottlenecks & bandwidth reducing configuration errors is a snap when you deploy the Flow Publisher agent within your Storage Area Networks. And best of all, it's available right from your WhatsUp Gold dashboard.
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There's no need for disposal or costly infrastructure upgrades – Flow Publisher can provide flow information from legacy 2900, 3500 & 3750 Cisco series devices along with stacks of non-flow enabled networking equipment from 3COM, Alcatel, Juniper, HP & many other vendors.
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Extend your network visibility and go beyond simple up-down availability and identify the actual causes of network traffic congestion with WhatsUp Gold and Flow Monitoring.
Digital Networks Australia is the authorised distributor of Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold throughout Australia and New Zealand. Our certified WhatsUp Gold Engineers are available free of charge to assist you during your evaluation. For assistance, please call 1300 723 600
