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Analysis and visualization of network traffic is important for
optimizing and protecting the operation of networked IT infrastructures.
The traffic monitoring system developed in the Aurora project
uses new
techniques for collecting, storing, and analyzing flow-based network
traffic information. The system helps to gain tight control over
end-to-end resource usage for hosts, servers, services, applications,
protocols, domains, autonomous systems, QoS types, and switch
interfaces. The system operates passively by generating detailed
network traffic reports from NetFlow/IPFIX. The system is specifically
designed for high flow rates.
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- Optimize and protect the operation of business-critical networked
infrastructures.
- Increase operational efficiency.
- Reduce network outage times.
- Discover server dependencies to reduce transition and relocation
costs.
- Save time acquiring total ownership costs.
- Save failure costs with roll-out of new application.
- Support identification of server consolidation opportunities.
- Help determine the relationships between IT and business-level
processes.
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- NetFlow
v1, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9 and IETF IPFIX
collection, analysis, reporting
- Pre-generated reports in HTML, PDF, XML and TXT
- Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly reporting
periods
- Utilization, domain, protocol, port, application, host,
flow, ToS, ASN, and ICMP reports
- Reports regarding average packet and flow statistics (e.g.,
duration, volume)
- User-defined aggregation schemes
- Ad-hoc zoom reports
- Support for very high flow rates (> 10K flows/s)
- Domain and site separation
- Distributed installation possible
- NetFlow forwarding
- IPv6 support at data and control plane
- GUI and language customization (Unicode-enabled)
- Relationship graphs
- Available for 32- and 64-bit architectures
- NetFlow/IPFIX meter (when export from
routers is not possible)
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The operation of the system is best supported on hardware with
at least a 2-GHz processor and 2 GB memory. The exact hardware requirements
depend on the amount of traffic to be measured on the network. If
the profiling setup requires running the software-based NetFlow/IPFIX
traffic meter on the same machine, a second network card may be
required.
The following operating systems are supported:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux
- Suse Linux Enterprise Server
- Debian GNU/Linux
Other operating systems have been successfully tested (i.e. AIX,
Solaris, Open/FreeBSD, Mac OS X).
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Interested in getting a trial or full license? Would you like
more information? Contact aurora@zurich.ibm.com.
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