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ACE Live Netflow module uses integrated web-based dashboards to provide a business-centric view of network utilization and application performance to prioritize problem resolution and effectively manage SLAs.
• Aurora Network Traffic Analysis and Evaluation from IBM.
• Caligare Flow Inspector from Caligare is a Netflow monitor and analyzer with many graph statistics, low level searching, application recognizer and utilization maps. Available in the US as NetIMonitor through Caligare partner Net US.
• FlowMon is a NetFlow monitoring solution (IP flows), providing wire speed processing with no packet loss, for all types of networks from 10Mbps to 10 Gbps.
• InMon provides traffic flow monitoring tools for high-speed switches. The software is able to monitor tens of thousands of switch ports continuously, producing real-time top flows charts, and site-wide application-level traffic matrices.
• Intermapper Flows from Dartware is a NetFlow and SFlow collector and analyzer that lets you see exactly where traffic comes from, who's sending it, and what it's used for. Runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and Unix.
• NetDetecor from Nicksun a non-intrusive network security monitoring product that (when deployed as part of your data communications infrastructure) inspects traffic flows, detects the activities of intruders, sets alarms, makes continuous copies of data from the network, and analyzes every packet in the network in real-time at production network traffic rates.
• Netflow from Cisco.
• NetQoS uses NetFlow to identify when and where problems are occurring or occurred, identify viruses using real time reporting, remove unwanted traffic instead of unnecessarily upgrading links, view and plan the impact of applications on the network over time.
• NetIntercept is delivered as a complete system, with hardware and software pre-installed, and captures in real-time and provides later on demand batch analysis of the data.
• P5 DataFlow Probe is a network management tool that assists network professionals in monitoring, analyzing, testing and troubleshooting their networks. It combines NetFlow analysis and a packet analyzer for protocol analysis. Along with these tools, it includes SNMP monitoring as well as the capabiltity to be an end point for network throughput testing with iperf.
• Packeteer provides network traffic characterization, using signatures derived from network layers up through 7, it can then use this information to do TCP rate control (using CoS/ToS. DiffServ & MPLS) to ensure timely performance.
• PRTG Traffic Grapher Windows software to monitor bandwidth usage and other network parameters via SNMP. Supports Netflow. Freeware also available.
• Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer provides detailed network utilization information for the users and applications causing the most traffic using a variety of flow-based technologies.
• sFlow probe from InMon is a monitor/SPAN port probe capable of continuously monitoring application level traffic flows at a full 1Gigabit (over 1,500,000 million packets per second).