Tag: flowmon

Network Performance Monitoring was extended with monitoring of TCP retransmissions and out of order packets. Using these metrics we are able to identify data transfer issues. This article explains TCP retransmissions and shows how to easily measure them and how it helps network administrators to identify network issues and troubleshoot the network.

How often you need to know, who is sitting behind devices in your network, who communicated in certain time frame or a month ago? Flowmon solution provides reliable user identification based authentication logs combined with flow data. The ability to monitor active devices in your network brings new benefits like user identification and host OS identification.

Big things in life have quite beginnings sometimes. More than ten years ago, a small group of Czech scientists worked for the pan-European association GÉANT. They had no idea that this project would change their lives forever and give a rise to the Flowmon solution which would one day monitor and secure pan-European network which is used by 50 million users.

Why would you need Network Behavior Analysis once you have deployed flow collector and traffic reporting? Well, there are scenarios where automatic anomaly detection goes far beyond capabilities of flow collectors. Are you using Flowmon Monitoring Center and still don’t have Flowmon ADS? Find out in 7 minutes how you can extend your Flowmon deployment with Network Behavior Analysis module.

How often you need to know who is sitting behind that IP address right now or who was logged there one month ago? Flow monitoring will give you information about IP, MAC address or DNS name but getting the user identity is usually time consuming task of analyzing the auditing logs of Active Directory or network access control system.