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Alerts and Advanced Alerts

bbusbey

Any update on the request for Alerts and Advanced Alerts in Netflow for Orion?

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mark_wiggans

I have not heard of any but any updates will be posted here first -

FormerMember

We plan to put NetFlow alerts into a future version. What are some of the alerts you'd like to see?

bbusbey

We would like to be able to alert on protocols/ports in use from one or many sources.An example would be to trigger an alert if traffic is detected on a well known port that is used by: Trojans, P2P, Viruses, Backdoors, Spyware, etc...Also, to alert on domains in use; Youtube, ebay, myspace, etc...On our remote sites who have limited bandwidth, we need to be more aggressive, whereas in our corporate office we can be more forgiving of bandwidth to the internet.

bbusbey

I still want this, I still need this. What is the update on this issue.

Thanks

FormerMember

It's not in the next release, but it's still on the roadmap.

phidjit

Has any progress been made on this requested feature?

I am looking for an alert based on Total Bandwidth in the last 24 hours/Today.

I can do this already with reports, I just need to do it using Alerts so that I can trigger an action.

mcbridea

Alerting is on the roadmap but not date committed today. These use cases are very helpful though in defining the functionallity and getting it assigned to a release.

Andy

phidjit

Thanks mcbridea,

Is there another way around this? Hooking into the database directly maybe?

FormerMember

If you have Orion APM, you can actually use APM's HTTP user experience monitor to look for certain information on a page of Orion (e.g., is YouTube present) and alert on that.

You can also periodically run SQL Queries on the Orion DB to check for specific info and then use that to alert.

bbusbey

So if you buy a Rolls Royce, you can actually sit inside it and turn on the radio to find out if it's raining outside.

Hmmm...

FormerMember

So if you buy a Rolls Royce, you can actually sit inside it and turn on the radio to find out if it's raining outside.
Hmmm...

Bruce,

I understand that the suggestion won't solve your problem if you don't already own APM. However, for those readers of this thread who do own APM, it is a solution until we are ablto add native alerting to NTA.

TylerSheridan

I would love to be able to set an alert when traffic on youtube exceeds a certain amount; are we any closer to this alert capability between NPM and NTA?

mp6636

Just out of interest how do you define youtube traffic? Have you setup an IP group for it or some other method? (as far as I'm aware it doesn't show up in the domain list)

mavturner

We have added alerts to NTA, but not ones that cover these last specific use cases. It's something we're definitely interested in, but right now performance is still our number 1 priority.

Regarding youtube traffic, as I'm sure you know, it's a bit tricky. Unfortunately the IP addresses do not resolve to the youtube.com domain and creating IP Address Groups is probably not a practical solution. There are ways to determine traffic is destined for youtube, but those methods aren't available in NTA today. If someone in the community has something working, we'd love to hear it.

Mav

jreves

If you voted for this feature: It's available now as an NTA Release Candidate!

Head over to the NTA Release Candidate forum, and check out the details here: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Release Candidate

Let us know in that forum what you think, and how you're using this feature to alert on flow traffic in your network!

joer

jreves

And this is now available in General Release as NTA version 4.5!

You can check out the Release Notes, download the new release on the Customer Portal, and get all the help they need with the upgrade at the Success Center.

joer