Overview

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables you to quantify exactly how your network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose. And with the new CBQoS monitoring you can be sure that the policies you’ve set give your mission-critical traffic the highest level of priority. Orion NTA’s NetFlow monitoring makes it easy to get a comprehensive view of your network traffic, find the bottlenecks, and shut down the bandwidth hogs.

Your network performance soars or suffers based on what users are doing. You’ve pleaded with employees to stop using the corporate network for bandwidth-hogging applications like streaming music and playing World of Warcraft®, but no one seems to care. You’ve been called out by upper management due to poor network performance more times than you’ve thought about attending Comic-Con®. You’ve enabled CBQoS to give higher priority to critical traffic like voice – but how do you know if these policies are effective? How can you analyze the traffic on your network so you can respond? Not to worry, we have an answer.

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) enables you to capture data from continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom and for what purpose. And with CBQoS monitoring you can be sure that the policies you’ve set give your mission-critical traffic the highest level of priority. We make it easy to get a comprehensive view of your network traffic, find the bottlenecks, and shut down the bandwidth hogs.

Features

Traffic Analysis Dashboard

• Spot potential problems quickly with top ten views that are included out-of-the-box
• Get to the root of bandwidth issues with an intuitive point-and-click interface
• Identify network-wide top talkers and top applications so you always know who is using the most bandwidth

Traffic Forensics

• Investigate and isolate excessive network bandwidth utilization and unexpected application traffic
• View NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow ®, or IPFIX traffic by specific time periods to diagnose what happened during an outage
• Analyze QoS performance by user, group, application, country, protocol, class of service, ingress/egress, endpoint, conversation, or domain

Progressive Charting

• Quickly get the charts you need to diagnose network traffic issues
• Work faster and get more done
• Stay 'in the zone' and resolve problems faster with less disruption to your workflow

Integrated Fault, Performance & Config Management

• Visualize network traffic and stay on top of issues using Orion’s familiar and intuitive web-based charts, graphs, tables, top 10 lists, and reports
• Combine performance management, configuration management, and traffic analysis to understand and optimize your network performance

Network Traffic View Builder

• Set up views by filtering NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow®, and IPFIX data based on custom parameters
• Access the data most critical to your network instantly by saving or bookmarking personalized views
• Share key views as links with co-workers to facilitate teamwork

CBQoS Performance Views

• Measure the effectiveness of your CBQoS policies with pre- and post-policy traffic levels per class map
• View network traffic segmented by Class of Service methods, such as Type of Service or DSCP
• Quantify bandwidth consumption for your critical applications

Multi-Vendor Device Support

• Analyze NetFlow v5, NetFlow v9, sFlow v5, IPFIX, and J-Flow data
• Support devices from Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP, Juniper, Nortel Networks, and other leading vendo

Flow-based Reporting

• Create custom reports for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow®, and IPFIX data
• Leverage multiple out-of-the-box reports
• Schedule weekly reports for automatic delivery to management