Hi Orion,
I am looking for a feature wherein "IP Address Group" created in Orion NTA should have the option of choosing from which monitored device (router or any flow export device) it wants to account the data for. Currently the feature is not present as confirmed by Solarwinds Supports TAC:325062. I am eagerly looking for this feature as this will give exact values in certain scenarios like the one I explained below:
SCENARIO: We have Orion NPM+NTA for monitoring our data center customers. Our idea is to create IP Address Group to every customer and use SDK for reporting that customer's utilization.
There are around 10 routers exporting NetFlow to Orion NTA. There are cases where a customer is accessing over two or more routers. In those cases all routers are exporting NetFlow data pertaining to the same customer which results in multiplication of actual customer traffic.
Suppose if the customer is accessing between two sites where both the sites are exporting their NetFlow/IPFIX to Orion NTA then NTA considers both the routers flow into the customer IP Addrss Group which actually multiplies the actual value by 2 (since 2 routers are seeing the same IP address and exporting the flows). This reports incorrect values to customers which is not acceptable.
So if we have an option of specifying which Flow device that IP Address Group account for then that IP Address group will only gather the reported value from that device only.
Hope this feature would be useful in cases of flow based reporting with multiple routers exporting the flows to Orion NTA.
thanks
Arun
