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Netflow collector - Does it show all ports?

We are trying to get a more acurate bandwidth tool that can really tell us our bandwidth since a 1 minute average is WAY off of what it really is. Netflow was recommended to us. We have thousands of applications using ports higher than 1024. WIll the netflow show each port or show them as other adn only display the well know ports?

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FormerMember

Orion NTA has a large number of well-known ports that it automatically labels. You can easily monitor all ports, however, even those that are not well-known. Moreover, any port can be given an application name of your choosing.

rob_ib

Say we use all ports from 1024 to 65225. On different hosts they are different applications. Does the NTA display the port numbers individually or grouped with all other unknown ports?

FormerMember

A port is either assigned to one port, a collection of ports (new in NTA 3.0) or it is “unmonitored traffic”. If it is unmonitored traffic, then as it is collected, it is summarized all in the one bucket of “unmonitored traffic”. Note that NTA only saves data down to 1-minute granularity.

rob_ib

Is there anything that monitors at better intervals than 1 minute? The 1 minute trending is a problem for us as the traffic is bursty and a 1 minute average is not even close to what we are hitting. On a 1G port the average is 200M and the bursts are well over 500M - This is a huge difference when trying to manage WAN links where the traffic HAS to get through and not dropped by over utilization.

I know the Enginees tool kit can do closer to real time but we need trending of our interfaces as there are too many to watch real time.

How does the Engineers tool kit do it in real time compared to the Orion as fas as bandwidth stats?