I am going to touch on common mistakes in cisco network monitoring today. You know for sure that you need a network-monitoring tool for managing your network. There are wide varieties of tools available that range from simple to complex and free to enterprise ones.
If you get one monitoring tool and install it, can you say that everything is under control? Are you going to be aware of what happened in your network? I will try to warn you about co...
What are your daily duties as the network administrator? You have to keep your network up and running. You have to answer calls which may relate to situations like “X location is down” or “Y location is slow”. You should monitor your network as described below to fulfill the tasks.
You should monitor your network and take actions with respect to situations like device and line failures.
You should analyze line utilizations, errors on the line and ...
NetFlow is a must have technology suitable for mid size to enterprise companies. Nowadays, it has become an IEEE standard as IPFIX (Internet Protocol Flow Information eXport). We will be able to find NetFlow technology support on any brand in the market soon. However, which devices of Cisco itself supports NetFlow technology?
All routers including the oldest (e.g. Cisco 2500 series) and smallest (e.g. Cisco 800 series) support NetFlow. Some functions...