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Version: ✨ 24.10

Introduction

The i-Vertix IT Monitoring Netflow module brings a complete new functionality and a lot of helpful views and reports to the IT Monitoring solution. As the name Netflow already states, the new module is all about monitoring network flows. Practically saying:

  • Who is talking to whom in your network?
  • Which applications are used?
  • How much traffic is generated by whom?
  • Is there any suspicious traffic floating around in your network?
  • Are there any throughput-bottlenecks present?
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i-Vertix IT Monitoring Netflow is an additional add-on. Contact the i-Vertix Sales Team for further information.

Key features​

Using the i-Vertix IT Monitoring Netflow module you can:

  • view network flows in real time
  • view recent network flows grouped by different values (e.g. application, protocol, client, server etc.)
  • view past network flows (up to 1 year, depending on retention settings)
  • view a traffic report
  • analyze alerting flows (e.g. suspicious network requests)
  • view network traffic by hosts

and a lot more is about to come!

We just started off with this new addition to our monitoring system. Stay tuned for more updates!

Main components​

The infrastructure for collecting network flows is similar to the normal monitoring infrastructure - consisting of decentralized collectors and a central processing and storage system. Some of the infrastructure, such as the i-Vertix Pollers can also be re-used (upgraded) to collect also flows.

Netflow collector​

Flows are sent from your L3 network devices, such as switches, routers or firewalls to our i-Vertix Netflow collector, which can be installed on any existing i-Vertix Poller (hardware or virtual machine) when enough hardware resources are available.

Like the monitoring data which is gathered by the i-Vertix Poller engine, also the flows are sent to a centralized managing system.

Netflow Analyzer​

The centralized i-Vertix Netflow analyzer receives all collected flows from the netflow collectors and processes, aggregates, stores and provides the data afterwards for further use. It is best practice to align the Netflow analyzer system next to the Central Monitoring Manager to minify the time of data exchange between the monitoring system and the netflow analyzer when interacting with flows.