NetFlow collectors can also correlate flow data, making them a necessary part of troubleshooting problems related to network traffic across devices.
NetFlow collector software plays a critical role in the NetFlow monitoring and analysis process, making it possible for you to gain deeper understandings of network flow, traffic, and bandwidth consumption.Ĭollecting flow traffic data is the first step to gaining the visibility and actionable insights to allow more effective management of users, applications, devices, and services on a network. In distributed or high-traffic networked environments, flow collectors can be likewise distributed for more comprehensive data collection, but each of the collectors will need to be configured to send the data to a centralized server for analysis.
NetFlow is a protocol developed by Cisco Systems used to record statistical, infrastructure, routing, and other information about traffic flows passing through a NetFlow-enabled router or switch.