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Entuity Integrated Flow Analyzer Premium
Entuity includes built-in traffic flow monitoring for complete network visibility. A lightweight Integrated Flow Analyzer module,
which is included with the basic product, can be a vital resource for locating the cause of flow-based issues throughout your
network. For those needing more detailed analysis, Entuity also offers the optional IFA Premium module, which greatly extends
Entuity’s flow-based capabilities.
Highlights
Offers true, converged flow-based
network management
Enables realtime visibility into top
conversations
Allows custom breakdowns for
analyzing flow data
Provides extensive reports with
1-minute granularity
Offers features for advanced analysis
Accepts Netflow, sFlow, IPFIX,
jFlow, and Netstream
Integrated Flow Analyzer Premium includes advanced analytic capabilities over and above Integrated Flow
Analyzer, including the ability to show traffic breakdown by top conversations
Requires minimal administration
Complete Network Visibility
Supports virtually unlimited scalability
To ensure the continuous availability of
Enables reports to be exported to
common formats
critical applications to end users, network
administrators need full visibility into what’s
happening on the network. This requires the
ability to see data from both a bottom up
(element-based) and top-down (flow-based)
perspective. Being limited to one or the other
may result in incomplete coverage, blinding
administrators to potential problems that may
degrade service to end users.
Entuity network management enables both,
with elemental- and flow-based monitoring
built into a single product and presented sideby-side for complete network visibility.
Entuity offers two built-in flow-based solutions
that complement its element monitoring
capabilities. The first, Integrated Flow Analyzer
(IFA), is included in the Entuity base product
at no extra charge. IFA is suitable for basic
traffic troubleshooting over a small number
of interfaces. The second, Integrated Flow
Analyzer Premium (IFAP), is an easy-touse yet powerful flow monitoring and traffic
analysis solution for those who want richer,
deeper insight about network traffic over a
small to medium number of interfaces.
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Entuity Integrated Flow Analyzer Premium
IFA Premium of fers advanced analy tical
capabilities over and above IFA, including
realtime visibility into top conversations,
extensive reports with 1-minute granularity,
custom breakdowns, adjustable data retention
settings, f lexible grouping controls, and
the ability to store years of rolled-up data.
IFA Premium’s advanced features are made
available through a licensing fee that includes
unlimited use per physical site.
IFA Premium Use Cases
Troubleshooting under performing
networks
Traditional SNMP tools provide information
about total utilization of links. To understand
what (user, device, application, etc.) is making
the link busy, identify the most disruptive
conversations, and f ind out who’s talking
to whom requires the ability to view flow
data side-by-side with traditional network
management data, such as infrastructure,
topology, connectivity, performance, and
events. Because IFA Premium is integrated with
other data collected by Entuity, it enables deep
insight into traffic flows on the monitored links.
IFA Premium Features Overview
Single Pane of Glass
Provides true converged flow-based network
management—one product, one set of interfaces, one
dashboard, one inventory, one user experience.
Top Conversations*
Enables realtime visibility into top conversations,
including hosts with a suspiciously large number of
active conversations.
Custom Breakdowns*
Allows custom breakdowns for analyzing flow data by
user-selected combination of data types, such as source
and destination IP, address ranges, port, protocol, QoS
classes, and more.
Short- and Long-Term
Reporting*
Provides extensive reports with 1-minute granularity
and the ability to store years of rolled-up data, limited
only by hard drive capacity. Reports on historical data,
displaying up to a month of data per report.
Advanced Analysis
Enables precise definition of displayed timeframe,
either by entering times explicitly or using zoom
control to focus on a specific timeframe.* Allows
traffic to be grouped together by application type
and/or IP address range.* Enables NetFlow sampling
support. Also permits grouping of multiple hosts,
web servers, and users into a single chart, along with
aggregation of the data.
Virtually Unlimited Scalability* Supports distributed pollers for virtually unlimited
NetFlow scalability. Additional servers can be
deployed to handle flow collection where large
volumes of flows need to be accommodated or
flow traffic must be localized geographically.
Easy to Use
Requires minimal administration. Screens can be
exported to custom dashboards for ease of monitoring.
Standards-Based
Accepts NetFlow versions 5, 7, and 9 (support for the
most commonly used templates), sFlow versions 4
and 5, IPFIX (support for the most commonly used
templates), NetStream versions 5 and 9, and JFlow (for
Juniper). Provides out-of-the-box support for Cisco,
3COM, Juniper, Huawei, Hewlett-Packard, Brocade
and more.
Reports Export
Allows reports to be exported as HTML, PDF, XML,
CSV, and other formats.
Observation of suspicious activity
Hosts (especially workstations) that engage
in many simultaneous conversations with
other hosts, or hosts that are contacted
simultaneously by many other hosts, may be
infected by viruses, bots, worms, malware,
and more. IFA Premium provides realtime
visibility into top conversations as well as
flexible analytical capabilities that help network
administrators and security staff hone in on
suspicious activity.
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* Indicates feature is available in IFA Premium but not in IFA.
Continuous provisioning of
bandwidth for critical business
applications
Internet video has become a popular form of
online education. However, network users
watching instructional videos hosted on popular
servers may restrict bandwidth available to key
applications, causing them to suffer from brown
outs. They may also cause the quality of VoIP
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Entuity Integrated Flow Analyzer Premium
calls to drop below an acceptable level. IFA
Premium lets network administrators observe
traffic patterns over time down to 1-minute
samples to see precisely when critical traffic
classes are suffering from bandwidth starvation,
as well as which end users are causing the
bottlenecks.
Understanding network impacts on
business services
Network administrators can benefit from
understanding which business services are
suppor ted by which links in their networks.
This information can help them prioritize
allocation of resources for troubleshooting and
proactively manage the network. IFA Premium
lets network administrators view other data
collected by Entuity such as inventory and
events alongside traffic flow data. This enables
them to stay abreast of any changes that
may occur to network services so that they
can ensure support for the most important
business applications.
Understanding traffic between
subnets and cloud applications
With the onset of cloud computing, network
administrators need to understand the
cumulative effects of a mass of workstations
in specific locations (offices, departments,
subnets, etc.) that communicate with applications
deployed to public and private clouds. IFA
Premium lets network administrators view
immediate traffic patterns and historical trends
for a specific subset of traffic so that they can
know whether the network is meeting availability
and performance requirements.
Long term traffic trends and
bandwidth monitoring
NetFlow monitoring over long time periods
helps network administrators understand trends
in traffic payload, spot areas where capacity
may quickly become depleted, and make other
decisions necessary for securing the long-term
health and performance of their networks. IFA
Premium lets network administrators store
years of rolled up data (limited only by hard
drive capacity) and to easily group it in ways
that allow them to analyze and report on it
from a wide variety of perspectives.
Test Drive IFA Premium
Entuity invites you to test drive Integrated
NetFlow Analyzer Premium. IFA Premium can
be used in a test environment at no cost for 30
days starting from the date of deployment. See
the Entuity Getting Started Guide, “Licensing
Entuity” chapter, for information on the
evaluation license.
Customers who want to try IFA Premium
directly in a production environment will need
a temporary software key. To get started on a
live test drive, please contact your Entuity sales
representative.
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frees IT staff to focus on strategic projects and easily integrates with major frameworks and networking environments. Entuity’s support and services
teams are frequently praised for their rapid response, networking expertise and involvement in special engagements. Founded in 1997 by two senior-level
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