AFM utilizes flow based export capabilities inherent in most of today's routers to generate a number of unique databases. These databases are used to store information on all network sessions flowing through the network over an extended period of time. With this information our systems can present valuable network usage reports that are suitable for a wide variety of audiences.
The Application Flow Monitoring databases contain information on every single conversation traversing network devices with a one minute resolution, over every interface in near-real time.
Application Flow Monitoring makes conversation data accessible to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences, with our easy to use web based reporting portal vital information is available at your fingertips.
Features and benefits
- Monitoring network activity can play a major part in establishing and maintaining network security. Our monitoring solution is based on these fundamentals:
- Coverage - most routers in the huge Cisco installed base can be used for network monitoring and with AFM no additional (costly) hardware probes are required.
- Complete visibility - AFM is practically alone in being able to report on every data conversation. The conversations that matter today start and remain small - virus, voice, peer-to-peer, hacking and worms. Only complete visibility makes tracking these conversations possible.
- Conversation awareness and IP session tracking - the ability to examine packets and their numerous fields in detail, so that unauthorized and hostile activity can be traced and analyzed.
- Conversations and interfaces - more than just a record, knowing the source IP addresses of conversations and their inbound and outbound interfaces is critical to tracking and understanding unusual behavior.
- Sampled flow and sflow support - Sampled netflow and sflow can be scaled up to actual traffic levels. this feature supports certain high-end devices that require flow sampling for performance such as cisco's 7600 and 12000 series.