Effective network monitoring plays a crucial role in modern network management. To achieve this, protocols like NetFlow v9 and IPFIX utilize various key elements, including Observation Point, Metering Process, Observation Domain ID, and Source ID. These elements...
When it comes to keeping tabs on networks, we’ve got two heavy hitters: NetFlow and packet capture. They are both crucial for understanding what’s going on in network traffic, but they do it in their own unique ways, especially when we dig into data fields. In...
In TCP, flags indicate a particular connection state, provide some additional helpful information for troubleshooting purposes, or handle control of a specific connection. Flags are also called control bits. Each flag corresponds to 1-bit information. The most...
Modern networks are getting increasingly complex. So many things can go wrong with them. Business can suffer, and that is something we definitely want to avoid. Monitoring network performance helps us anticipate incoming problems and troubleshoot them ahead of time....
We often get support tickets from users saying that the amount of data shown in NFA does not correlate with SNMP or is simply missing at times. Quite often, the reason for this is the issue related to setting the wrong values for flow table size or leaving them in the...
