-Flow Monitoring Basics
*Support for Cisco’s NetFlow v1, v5, v9; sFlow v5; Juniper Network’s J-Flow format, standard IPFIX and Cisco NSEL (Network Security Event Logging) formats
*Dedicated SQL Server database
*Extensive support for switches and routers from Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Extreme, *Enterasys and Packeteer
-Monitoring/Troubleshooting Capabilities
*Automatic classification of traffic by type and protocol in real-time, including NBAR traffic
*Identification of traffic flow patterns through the network in real-time
*Identification of traffic sources (top talkers) and destinations
*Identification of traffic destination by group, domain, top level domain (TLD), and country
*Pinpointing of internal and external traffic sources and destinations
*Conducting traffic identification and analysis for LAN and WAN for Quality of Service through ToS or DSCP
*Grouping of flow data based on common parameters, including IP addresses by domain, TLD or country
*Automatic identification of high traffic flows to un-monitored ports and highlighting of those ports as candidates for monitoring
*Exposure of unauthorized applications, including file and music sharing
*Detection of failed connections
-Reporting
*Access to 21 flow management reports via WhatsUp Gold Web Console
*Automated rollup of flow data with Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views
*User configuration of all reports to display flow information in custom formats
*Sorts and displays filtered reports by protocol, application, host, domain, TLD, country, groups or type of service
*Integration of flow reports with WhatsUp Gold workspace reports
*Access to WHOIS information for sender and receiver reports
*Display traffic information by bytes, packets or flows 95th percentile reporting within the *Interface Overview reports
*New Top NBAR Applications and Class based QoS reports
-Configuration and Management
*Configuration of flow sources
*Configuration of role based management for user access to configuration
