Joe Buchanan

NetFlow for Incident-Free Videoconferencing

As airline prices continue to rise, and traveling for meetings becomes less feasible, videoconferencing will continue to become more prevalent. However, any corporate professional or member of the military who has been responsible for providing a quality video teleconferencing (VTC) session for one’s leaders knows the stress that such a meeting can cause. Some of the more common symptoms of a VTC meeting gone wrong are the eyes that quit blinking because the video has frozen, or conversations beginning to echo as latency issues arise. These are very challenging problems to both predict and resolve. Traditional SNMP monitoring will tell… READ MORE

Automate “Known Bad Hosts” detection

    StealthWatch provides a flexible “WebServices API” that allows for automation of tracking of known bad Internet hosts.  The traffic can originate from or be destined to these identified networks.  Through the combination of this WebServices API, zoning, and ‘Zone Locking’ any communication going to known bad Internet Hosts will trigger an alert for immediate investigation. How does it work? The WebServices API provides flexibility in automating configuration updates with the StealthWatch Management Console (SMC) or repurposing data that was gathered by StealthWatch for other business needs.  This API operates through Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Zones are… READ MORE

Very Cool Workflow Addition in StealthWatch

Here is a very cool workflow addition (and huge time saver!) within StealthWatch System 5.8 as an option from a flow table query… When you are viewing a flow analysis and are looking at the exporter interface information to see where the flow came from, you can right-click the list of interface(s) and select Interface Status to jump to a view of each interface that observed the flow.    READ MORE

CATEGORIES StealthWatch
TAGS stealthwatch, netflow, network visibility, anomaly detection, network performance monitoring, network behavior analysis, workflow, sflow, flow analysis, wan optimization, network troubleshooting