Service pack | Fresh install

New Features :

• Validating QoS policies with Cisco CBQoS - Enterprise edition now supports Cisco CBQoS and provides report on the per-class pre policy, post policy drops and queues. This new feature complements the already existing support for Cisco's Network based application recognition (NBAR), helping in application mapping and providing better quality of service.


• User based dashboard page for guests / Operators - Each user can have their own dashboard, only viewing devices that need to be monitored by them, which can be sorted based on utilization, speed etc.


• Business hour alerts - makes sure that the users do not have to worry about the alerts that might be generated during non-business hours. With the new version of NetFlow Analyzer, business hours can be preset as per the enterprise's need and the alerts can be activated only during that period.


• Exclude IP address(es) option in IP groups - During creations of IP groups, the exclude option makes it much easier to exclude only particular addresses from a network as the requirement may be.


• Radius authentication - Radius Server is useful in centralised management of user credential details. Once the user roles are defined in the User Management feature of NetFlow Analyzer, subsequent authentication of the user profiles can be done from the Radius Server.


• Exclude encrypted applications - Enabling NetFlow on cryptomap tunnel interfaces double counts the ESP / GRE traffic. That can be prevented by applying this filter on cryptomap tunnel interfaces.


• Output interface suppression - WAN optimizers compress the packets and therefore the flow size varies. The size of the packet going in and coming out is not the same, and the readings can be misleading and confusing, to say the least. To avoid this, "Output Interface Suppression" can be used. The interface in which the compression takes place (destination/output interface) can be suppressed.


• ACL related drops - Access control filter drops the flow information which contains data pertaining to dropped traffic due to Access Control List.

Other Enhancements:

• DNS enhancement
  
• Viewing older schedule reports from UI
• Customize the period of time for which the data needs to shown in the traffic page.
• Adding any PROTOCOL_APP (ex. TCP_APP, UDP_APP... ) applications from the specific conversations itself
• Conversation Distribution Graph - Ability to see the graphs near the conversations.
• "Keep me signed in" option
• Search by Total IN / OUT / Utili / Speed

Service pack (7.0) | Fresh install (7.0)

New Features in 6.5

• Failover - Automatic crash recovery and data replication
• Real time reports with graphs. Updates spontaneously as the data is received
• Ability to see the devices in a hierarchical manner as a tree view
• Ability to view the reports / graphs according to user timezone
• Lets the user view the top 100 and 200 Autonomous System
• Ability to group interfaces across the routers
• Ability to create alerts for IP groups
• Page is refreshed automatically every minute
• Ability to remove the disabled collectors from the database
• Ability to physically locate your network resources on a map
• Export reports as pdf
• Ability to take configuration backup
• User configurable scheduling of reports
• Enhancement in QoS reporting
• Single click to retrieve interface name and speed