NetFlow Tracker User’s Guide Version 3.5 May 2007 Copyright 2004 - 2007 Fluke Corporation. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 10 Appendix 1 to End User LicenceTerms and Conditions for Fluke Support and Maintenance Service 1. Definit
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 11 1.7 The contents of the Schedule form an integral part of this Agreement and shall have as full effect
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 12 5.4 Without prejudice to the generality of clause 5.3 and for the avoidance of doubt, to the fullest e
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 13 9. Confidential Information and Security 9.1 During and after this Agreement, the Parties will keep in
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 14 ScheduleSupport Services 1. Support Hours The Support Hours during which Fluke shall supply the Suppo
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 15 Introduction This document is the user manual for NetFlow Tracker, a software product designed to colle
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 16 •Every report and chart can be formatted as CSV or XML for further processing or as simplified HTML or
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 17 Installation Minimum System Requirements The type of system required to run NetFlow Tracker depends on
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 18 •NetFlow Tracker contains an embedded web server. Web servers normally run on port 80, but this may be
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 19 Custom Setup You will only see this dialog if you chose custom setup above. You should see options for
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 2Contents SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT 5 INTRODUCTION 15 What is NetFlow? 15 What is NetFlow Tracker? 15
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 20 Set up SNMP community strings If any of the devices you intend monitoring do not use a read-only SNMP c
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 21 Using NetFlow Tracker Once you have installed NetFlow Tracker and configured your devices, data will be
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 22 Device traffic meters In addition to the orderable columns there are two graphical meter columns that a
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 23 Per-AS data If your router uses BGP to route traffic it will provide source and destination origin or p
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 24 Zooming in You can zoom in to the chart by clicking the zoom in button on the toolbar: This will zoom i
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 25 Alter the filter applied to a standard chart Most charts allow you to change the applied filter by clic
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 26 Working with Pie Charts Most chartscan be displayed instead as a pie chart. Rather than breaking the se
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 27 Sort a tabular report A report can be sorted on any of the columns describing the reported elements, or
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 28 Report Templates Whenever you create a new tabular report or chart you can choose any of the standard r
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 29 •Bi-directional Conversations – adds extra columns showing the traffic and packets sent from destinatio
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 3LONG-TERM REPORTS 35 Devices and Interfaces 35 Per-device and Per-interface Long-term Reports 35 Filte
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 30 •Networks – shows the IP subnets that were the source or destination of the most traffic or packets. •
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 31 Some filters allow a range of items to be added; in this case enter the start and end of the range in t
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 32 Time zone You can change the time zone used to interpret the start and end times and time masks from th
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 33 Protocol You can restrict the set of IP protocols considered. For example, you may want to consider onl
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 34 DiffServ This will select only traffic bearing one of the selected differentiated service code points.
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 35 Long-term Reports Long-term reports allow you to look at data over much longer time ranges than is poss
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 36 If you select a per-device, per-inbound interface or per-outbound interface report you must also specif
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 37 Reports The “Reports” menu on the NetFlow Tracker homepage contains links to user-defined executive and
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 38 Report URL Format You can easily generate your own URLs or modify automatically created ones for use in
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 39 0023 Next Hops 0024 Source Address Dissemination0025 Destination Address Popularity0026 Recognised Appl
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 4IP Application Names 72 DiffServ Names 72 Hostname Resolution Settings 72 AS Names 73 Subnet Names 7
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 40 output – specifies if a tabular report or chart will be generated. table A tabular report will be gener
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 41 sections – specifies the report sections to output. The sections, formed by summing the values for each
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 42 format – specifies the output format of the report or chart. html Fully interactive HTML (default)print
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 43 etime – specifies the end of the required time range. <time> The time in milliseconds UTC <dd&
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 44 <number>The time range will extend to the end of this number of full units before the time of rep
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 45 edate_nunitsago – (optional) specifies the number of units before the time of report generation of the
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 46 Specifying a time zone By default the time zone used to interpret calendar-based time ranges and time-o
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 47 115 (GMT+02:00) Bucharest 120 (GMT+02:00) Cairo 140 (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria 125 (GMT+02:00) Helsin
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 48 285 (GMT+12:00) Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is. 300 (GMT+13:00) Nuku'alofa Specifying the chart samp
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 49 sample – specifies the source long-term data to use 10minute Daily data (ten minute samples) will be us
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 5Software License Agreement This is a legal agreement between you (“You”/ “the End User””), and Fluke Corp
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 50 invpn – specifies a VPN that the input interface must be part of. <name>The VPN name; see Device
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 51 dstport – specifies an acceptable destination application port number. Format as for srcport above. dst
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 52 applid_exclude=true – specifies that the supplied identified applications are excluded rather than incl
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 53 dstas_exclude=true – specifies that the supplied destination autonomous system numbers are excluded rat
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 54 nexthop – specifies a next-hop address. <addr> The address in dotted-decimal format <addr1>
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 55 Management Portal Access Control Parameters The following parameters are used by a management portal th
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 56 6Out Interface 7In/Out Interface 8Protocol 9Source Port 10 Dest Port 11 Src/Dest Port 12 Source Applica
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 57 64 Filter Editor button, if applicable 128 Refresh and Resolve All buttons, if applicable 256 Print and
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 58 Performance Tuning There are several factors that influence how quickly a given report is generated: Di
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 59 Configuration Guide To open any of the settings pages, click “Settings” on the main page. If you have p
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 6If You have purchased the maintenance and support services from Fluke then subject to payment of the sup
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 60 Device Settings Device List This page allows you to check the status of a known device and override the
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 61 Adevice may be configurable to send the BGP next-hop address in its NetFlow exports; if this is the cas
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 62 If you wish to prevent interfaces that never report any NetFlow data from appearing in the interface st
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 63 You can use your own html page if you wish by putting it in the “customweb” folder under the NetFlow Tr
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 64 Using Apache as a Portal Server The Apache web server supports several directives in its configuration
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 65 Report Settings This page lets you configure various values affecting the way reports and charts appear
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 66 Saved Filters Saved filters can be defined that can be added wherever a filter editor appears in the so
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 67 You can choose to have the report generated as PDF or as HTML in the same format as the printableversio
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 68 Executive Reports An executive report is a pre-configured template that contains one or more reports or
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 69 AHTML cell has a CSS style that is used to control its appearance. Three standard styles are offered –
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 76. CUSTOMER REMEDIES You must call your Fluke representative for an authorization to return any item duri
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 70 An Example Executive Report – Top Applications Today and This Week This report contains two sub reports
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 71 The fourth row consists of a single sub-report cell containing the chart legend for the first sub-repor
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 72 IP Application Names NetFlow Tracker receives application information in the form of a protocol number
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 73 AS Names This page lets you assign names to AS numbers appearing in reports. AS numbers below 34816 are
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 74 •Store real-time data for allows you to change the number of days full real-time data is stored for. Yo
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 75 Archiving NetFlow Tracker can be configured to archive real-time data older than the age configured in
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 76 NetFlow Data Received This counter shows the number of exports and the amount of NetFlow data received
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 77 No In Interface If flows arrive with no in interface it may indicate a configuration problem on a Catal
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 78 Appendix 1: Device Configuration This is a brief guide to setting up NetFlow on various types of device
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 79 ip flow-cache timeout active 1 This breaks up long-lived flows into one-minute segments. ip flow-cache
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 811. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND SECURITY During and after this Agreement, the Parties will keep in conf
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 80 Enabling NetFlow Export on a 4000 Series Switch The 4000 and 4500 series switches require a Supervisor
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 81 mls flow ip interface-full mls nde interface or mls flow ip full If you have a Supervisor Engine 2 or 7
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 82 Configuring NDE on a CatOS Device A layer 3 switch running CatOS appears as two devices; the MSFC can b
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 83 Configuring NetFlow Input Filters for Traffic Class Reporting IOS versions 12.2(25)S, 12.2(27)SBC and 1
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 84 To ensure that NetFlow Tracker receives enough information from the device you must ensure that the “Lo
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 85 Appendix 2: CSV File Format Every standard chart and tabular report can be converted to comma-separated
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 86 Appendix 3: XML Format Every standard chart and tabular report can be converted to XML for use in exter
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 87 Appendix 4: Third Party Software Components This product includes software developed by the Apache Soft
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 88 jspSmartUpload NetFlow Tracker includes jspSmartUpload 2.1 which is no longer available. This is distri
User’s Guide – version 3.5 NetFlow Tracker 914.4 If any provisions of the Agreement are held to be unenforceable, illegal or void in whole or in par
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