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You can migrate your existing installation to version 6.5 by using the service pack available here
NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition is a scalable network traffic analysis and forensic tool for monitoring your network. It relies on NetFlow / sFlow data received from switches and routers and caters to the needs of large enterprises with distributed networks. It can scale to monitor tens of thousands of interfaces or switch ports.
NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition enables rapid troubleshooting of network incidents, tracking of worms and security violations more effectively and helps in planning your network upgrades in a more informed manner. A high level of automation and intuitive reporting ensures that your time is freed up for more value-adding activities for your enterprise.
Highlights
Suited for large enterprises with distributed networks
Scalable architecture to support thousands of routers and switches
Supports centralized view for easy management
Supports Cisco® NetFlow version 5, 7 and 9, sFlow®, J-Flow®, IPFIX®, NetStream® and Cisco® NBAR
Supports TOS, DSCP and TCP_Flag
Advanced application recognition based on IP address in addition to port and protocol
Https based secure communication
All-software solution and does not require complex
hardware probes
Runs on Windows & Linux - both 32-bit and 64-bit
Free 30-day evaluation with no restriction on features made available
As a network manager you need to be on top of your network to be in control of the day-to-day happenings in your network. Especially, with more and more businesses being increasingly dependent on the internet, it is very vital that you are in total control of your network.Any network outage has to be quickly attended to and fixed right away. More importantly any network incidents has to be pro-actively attended to. NetFlow Analyzer with its proactive alerting mechanisms ensure that you are informed of any network exceptions as it happens. Also the drill down features let you quickly pin down the cause of any network problems and troubleshoot faster.
It is also very essential that you ensure your business critical applications are not starved off bandwidth while non-critical activities like music downloads hog the available bandwidth. By giving you an indepth visibility in to your network and the bandwidth usage statistics you can appropriately set QoS policies. It is also possible to categorize applications that consume bandwidth by port, protocol and IP address. This way you can be fully empowered to ensure that the business critical applications always have the required bandwidth.
As a network administrator you need to have all the reports to take the right decision. Especially when it comes to bandwidth capacity planning decisions the stakes involved are high and even a small mistake can cost huge money. NetFlow Analyzer with its long range historical reporting lets you take the right decisions. Also as a network administrator you need to have periodic reporting to understand how the network is performing. NetFlow Analyzer's automatic report generation feature at scheduled time periods help you with just that.
Should you need any specific information at any point in time, you could just access the application for a quick snapshot. NetFlow Analyzer's dashboard presnet you with all the vital metrics you need to eb aware on as an administrator. You could drill down on it for any further infromation on any specific element of your network.
