NetFlow Monitoring and Analysis Using StableNet^®

Executive Summary

  NetFlow is a Cisco-developed flow technology that allows flow-monitoring for a given network. StableNet^® is an automated network and service management system available in three versions: StableNet^® Telco for CSP/ISP/MSP customers, StableNet^® Enterprise for Corporations, Service Integrators and Managed Service Operators and StableNet^® as a Service (SNaaS) for small and mid-sized Telecom & SaaS Operators and Enterprises. The StableNet^® NetFlow Analyzer is a functional capability of the unified management system that receives and processes the flow-data being sent from the configured flow devices in the network. The flow-data is then subjected to deep-flow-analysis that results in a series of statistical and graphical real-time reporting. The reporting can be manipulated to detail-specific date/time ranges to be displayed in order to assist with troubleshooting-specific events that may have caused performance degradation or service loss. This document will provide insight into the StableNet^® NetFlow capability and detail when NetFlow is appropriate to be used and in what context it should be deployed.