Invitation to NetFlow-Lite Webinar
As most of you know, nProbe has recently added NetFlow-Lite support in 6.5 release. NetFlow-Lite is a protocol that brings you visibility into switched networks, similar to what NetFlow "classic" is doing…
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Using nProbe as NetFlow-Lite Cache
As previously stated on this blog, we have worked tightly with Cisco as nProbe has been selected as reference implementation for NetFlow-Lite flow conversion. Although NetFlow-Lite support has been added to nprobe…
How to Monitor Latency Using nProbe
On May 12th in Bolzano (I) at the Nagios World Conference Europe, I will give a speech about network and application latency monitoring using nProbe. This is an hot topic, in particular…
Tuning nProbe 6.4 Scalability and Performance
Release 6.3 of nprobe targeted IPFIX compatibility. In release 6.4.x (just introduced) the main focus has been on scalability and performance. Until 6.3, the nProbe architecture was not really exploiting multicore systems,…
nProbe complies with the IPFIX specification
Last week I have participated to an IPFIX interoperability event held in Prague, right before the IETF 80. In the picture below you can see me between Benoit Claise (Cisco, one of…
nProbe IPFIX Interoperability Tests
Over the past month quite a lot of effort has been put on the IPFIX side of nProbe. Recently, nProbe has been successfully verified by Juniper as an IPFIX (in addition to…
Say hello to NetFlow-Lite (NFLite)
As you all know, NetFlow has been initially designed for routers (or L3 switches if you wish), contrary to sFlow that instead has been deployed mostly on switches. In this view, people…
Cisco(Live) and ntop
Just like Apple is the computer brand I use since 1985, for me Cisco is the networking company, the one that created the first routers and switches on which the Internet was…
HTTP Traffic Analysis Using nProbe and Scrutinizer
Are you interested in getting URL information from NetFlow? The nProbe NetFlow probe or the nBox can do it. Paul at Plixer International recently wrote a blog on Recommended nProbe Templates. For…
Latency using NetFlow from the nProbe: Part 1
nProbe v6 features both network and application latency measurement. Our partner Ravica has written a nice tutorial on this subject.
How to Configure nProbe to Export URLs and Latency via NetFlow
Our friends at Plixer have written a nice article about how to use nProbe to export HTTP and latency information. Note that you can also use the nProbe http plugin to trace…
Using ntop as a flow collector for nProbe
nProbe is an efficient netflow/IPFIX probe that can also act as a collector dumpling flows on disk or onto a database (MySQL, sqlite and Fastbit). As ntop has not been designed to…
