Reasons To Choose NetFlow Monitoring
Reasons To Choose NetFlow Monitoring
NetFlow monitoring is the domain of networks that use Cisco switches. These switches can be configured to sent data streams with the network’s usage data to the machine running PRTG which can then analyze the data.
Because the switch already performs a pre-aggregation of traffic data the flow of data to PRTG is much smaller than the monitored traffic. This makes NetFlow the ideal option for high traffic networks that need differentiation of the bandwidth usage by network protocol and/or IP addresses.