Get proactive visibility into what's passing through your network using WhatsUp Gold's Network Traffic Analysis module.
Full analysis of all network traffic and patterns Support for all versions of Netflow, NBAR, CBQoS and more Find and understand bottlenecks in your network Discover malicious traffic and its source
Bandwidth & Deep Packet Analysis for Netflow, J-Flow, sFlow, IPFIX, NBAR & More
As an all-in-one network monitoring solution, WhatsUp Gold includes a Network Traffic Analysis module - which provides deep-packet network information so that you can the makeup of traffic flow in your network, at any point in the day.
Support for All Major Network Device Vendors
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We offer web based one-to-one demonstrations of all our solutions, including WhatsUp Gold If you would like to get a better understanding of the solution in a live environment, we would be happy to take you on a tour of the features.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Network Traffic Analysis allows you to look into the packet flow of your network to understand exactly what is taking place before interfaces and links become bottlenecks
IDENTIFY BOTTLENECKS
Where there unexplainable slow-downs and bottlenecks in your network, WhatsUp Gold can help to identify the sources and the types of traffic they are sending and receiving
FIND MALICIOUS TRAFFIC
Using an IP address reputation list, WhatsUp Gold can identify traffic which could be malicious in nature. Allowing you to investigate cure the source
SPEED UP YOUR NETWORK
Being able to identify any bottlenecks and potentially malicious traffic means you can apply resource where it is truly needed and speed up your network
How WhatsUp Gold Helps You
Let us help you to transform you from a reactive network team to a proactive one. Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold can be up and running in 60-minutes.
WHATSUP SAVES TIME
With all your network monitoring and investigation tools in one centralised application, you can focus your efforts on solving problems quickly
WHATSUP SAVES MONEY
Highly competitive on price and with unlimited monitors on each licensed device, you can collect as many metrics as you like without ever having to upgrade
WHATSUP SAVES THE DAY
With automated integrations with ServiceNow, OpsGenie and Slack, you will always be the first to know and react when something is amiss on your network.
Netflow is a is the collective name for a group of outputs from network devices, which provide information such as packet size, destination, source, destination port and source port. For network monitoring solutions such as Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold which contain a built in NetFlow Analyser, it provides greater insight into problematic areas of the network, which it can then report on.
Different network device vendors have different names for this feature: Cisco uses the name NetFlow, HP Aruba favours sFlow and Juniper Networks uses J-Flow.
WHY SHOULD I MONITOR NETFLOW DATA?
We don't believe it is required in all cases, however it does provide a level of detail into network traffic and behaviour that typical monitoring protocols such as SNMP, do not.
If you have problems with bottlenecks, network slow-downs and other unexplainable behaviour, a Netflow Analyser such as WhatsUp Gold will be able to help.
HOW EASY IS IT TO SET UP NETFLOW?
As simple as any other module in WhatsUp Gold - Just configure your switch or router to send NetFlow packets to WhatsUp Gold and within a few minutes you should see some of the dashboards and graphs populated with your NetFlow information.
If you have a Total Plus license, you will already have this capability included in your software. If not, we can arrange a trial of the Network Traffic Analysis free of charge.
IS NETFLOW ANALYSIS ONLY AVAILABLE WITH WHATSUP GOLD?
No, a lot of other vendors provide NetFlow collection and analysis modules and tools. However, after ten years of network monitoring software experience, we do believe that WhatsUp Gold offers the best solution at the best price.
In this blog post we are comparing two network monitoring goliaths - Progress WhatsUp Gold and SolarWinds NPM, which is the Network Performance Monitoring module of the wider SolarWinds solution. For simplicity, we will continue to refer to this simply as SolarWinds and point-out where other plugins are required.
It was a revealed in a recent Fortinet survey of CISOs that one of the top three priorities for the next few years is the integration of network operations and IT security. Something which is corroborated by what I am witnessing when speaking to and visiting our customers.
In this blog we take a look at NetFlow and other network packet analytics; what they are; how they work; and most importantly, should you be monitoring it.
