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Cisco NetFlow Collector 6.0
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Cisco
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announces Cisco NetFlow Collector (NFC) 6.0. Cisco NFC offers a NetFlow data
collection and aggregation tool that provides a centralized view for data analysis and
reporting. Cisco NFC empowers enterprises and service providers with actionable
intelligence to optimize their network infrastructure for application delivery and network
capacity planning. In addition, Cisco NFC is a critical enabler for business support
applications such as usage-based billing and service-level objective (SLO) monitoring.
Cisco NFC delivers industry-leading performance for helping enable network engineers to cope
with the high-volume flow data typical in large networks. It implements a scalable multitier
architecture for collecting, normalizing, correlating, and aggregating data from NetFlow-enabled
devices dispersed across geographically distributed networks. The architecture comprises two
layers: Cisco NFC as the first tier and Cisco Multi-NFC (MNFC) as the new tier-two component.
Cisco MNFC adds network-level correlation and time-based summarization, providing a central
view for all distributed Cisco NFC implementations in the network. Typically, Cisco MNFC is
deployed at the administrative control point of the network.
In keeping with the latest Cisco NetFlow enhancements, Cisco NFC supports all NetFlow formats.
It also supports correlation across multiple data sources such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
peering for Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) resolution. In addition to supporting a large selection of
predefined aggregation schemes, Cisco NFC offers the flexibility for users to define their own
aggregation schemes. Configuration and traffic reports are delivered through an advanced user-
friendly Web interface.
Table 1 lists the new features available with Cisco NFC 6.0.
Table 1.
Cisco NetFlow Collector 6.0 Features
Feature
Benefit
Cisco NetFlow Collector 6.0, Tier One
Threshold setting
The user can pick and choose threshold parameters for further correlation
analysis. When a condition occurs, Cisco NFC 6.0 sends a Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) trap to the northbound application.
analysis. When a condition occurs, Cisco NFC 6.0 sends a Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) trap to the northbound application.
Raw flow forwarding—“flow through”
Currently, NetFlow Data Export (NDE) can export flows to two collectors
simultaneously. Users can leverage Cisco NFC 6.0 to forward raw flows (just
like NDE) to multiple NetFlow applications.
simultaneously. Users can leverage Cisco NFC 6.0 to forward raw flows (just
like NDE) to multiple NetFlow applications.
SNMP trap
Added-value features for integrating with northbound applications.
FlexLM licensing
Node-locked licensing offers ease of administration.
Health monitor
GUI view for monitoring Cisco NFC server resource utilization and health
indicators.
indicators.
Performance enhancement
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Flexible NetFlow (FNF)
FNF is the next generation of NetFlow. It increases scalability and flexibility of
NetFlow deployment. FNF offers configurable flow information to perform
customized traffic identification.
NetFlow deployment. FNF offers configurable flow information to perform
customized traffic identification.