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Netflow IP address group to IP address group

zyontrific

Hi,

Is it possible to build a filter group on NTA to perform IP address group to IP address group graph?

Regards,

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Hi,

I have to disappoint you and say no, this is not possible (yet).

thanks

zyontrific

OK thanks for the quick response.... I hope yet isn't too far away

chris.lapoint

To help us prioritize, can you elaborate a little more on the use-case for this requirement? What data points are you hoping visualize in the graph?

For internal folks, this is being tracked as #3032

zyontrific

Chris,

No problem I appreciate your help with this. We have a small WAN over MPLS so we would like to be able to do site to site usage statisics especially when we have 1000's of new users at a site creating WAN traffic on top of what we already have. This will help with capacity planning, QoS, local servers, or other solutions.

Using IP groups in NTA was a start but using the filter I could do an IP group to specific IP address but not another IP group. Also, being able to group IP groups into a site would be useful too. We don't have contiguous ranges at each site so we would have multiple IP groups per site and if we could then group them together to form a site group that would be perfect. There maybe other ways to do this but we get our NTA stats from the Riverbeds at each site.

If there is a better way of doing this please let me know.

Thanks,

chris.lapoint

Good news here. We're working on enhanced IP groups as we speak. You'll be able to enter an IP address, IP address range, or a combination of IPs and IP address ranges (similar to how you can do the same for ports when defining applications).

We've got some mockups and I'd like to have a brief call with you to walk through what we're thinking if you're amenable.

zyontrific

Chris,

I am happy to help where I can. I am in the UK so there is the time difference to work on there. Here is an example of what we would like to be able to do with
NTA IP groups:

IP Group
Network-A-1
Network-A-2
Network-A-3

Network-B-1
Network-B-2
Network-B-3
Network-B-4

Network-C-1
Network-C-2
Network-C-3

Then group those into Site groups:

SiteA - Network-A-1, Network-A-2, Network-A-3
SiteB - Network-B-1, Network-B-2, Network-B-3, Network-B-4
SiteC - Network-C-1, Network-C-2, Network-C-3

And then be able to run traffic profiles of site 2 site traffic:

SiteA and SiteB
SiteB and SiteC
SiteC and SiteA

As we have an MPLS network and getting our NTA data from Riverbeds it's a lot of work to filter out site to site traffic.

Hope that makes sense.