Michael Patterson : Advanced NetFlow Traffic Analysis
Michael Patterson
Founder and Product manager for Plixer's Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer as well as Flow Analytics.

November 2012

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Palo Alto Networks NetFlow Export includes Firewall Event Field in PAN-OS 5.0

November 25, 2012

Palo Alto Networks is showing further commitment to NetFlow Reporting by including a Firewall Event element in PAN-OS 5.0.  This new field will provide a few new advantages to Firewall Administrators.  These improvements to their NetFlow export can be seen in multiple ways:

IPFIX Vendors should implement RFC 5610

November 7, 2012

This is a call to all the great companies to date that have implemented IPFIX.  It is clear that IPFIX is the next generation protocol for to be included with most network monitoring solutions and for this reason, I'd like this companies and those considering IPFIX to include support for RFC 5610 or some similar sort of technology.  Without support for this RFC, deciphering new elements is nearly impossible.  The situation IPFIX collector vendors are facing is similar to trying to look decipher traps or browse OIDs without a MIB file. 

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