Netflow Cisco pix 501

Try this solution:

http://support.solarwinds.com/kbase/ProblemDetail.cfm?ID=1264

Not sure how well the 501 does netflow but it's worth a try.

Jimmy-

Here's one of my favorite docs on using snmp with ASA/PIX:

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/paws/13822/pixsnmp.pdf

The Pix 501 does not support NetFlow in any code version. You can get some idea of the traffic flowing through a Pix by looking at the xlate tables, but if you need flow information you're going to need to look at something other than the Pix in the network. ntop might be worth looking at if you can get access to a SPAN port:

www.ntop.org/overview.html

@jswan

Not suprising about the Pix 501 as some people report it can't even handle a high speed ASDL connection.  I haven't had a pix in a few years all my devices are ASA 5505 and 5510's.  Where is the cutoff with firewalls from cisco being able to run Netflow?

I believe all of the ASA series firewalls support NetFlow in versions 8.2(2) and later. IIRC, the ASAs use a somewhat customized version of NetFlow v9 that needs explicit support in the collector (and I'm pretty sure NTA supports this).