machine specs for Netflow collector & Analyzer

Tue Nov 3 17:24:22 UTC 1998

(this is with my customer login, not the "public" pages)

flow collector:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/nfc/nfc_2_0/index.h
tm

and flow analyer:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/nfa/index.htm

you want version 2.0 and the docs under there should have hardware
requirements and all the knobs you want for data reduction, etc (ok, maybe
not *all* the knobs
but it's a nice improvement over v1.0)  wow, did i just post something
on-topic, and non-drivelous?

-brett

Roy Hockett <royboy at umich.edu> on 11/02/98 10:11:12 PM

Please respond to Roy Hockett <royboy at umich.edu>

To:   nanog at merit.edu
cc:    (bcc: Brett Watson/Enron Communications)
Subject:  machine specs for Netflow collector & Analyzer

     I know this is not in the spirit of this list, however, I am sure
those who have addressed this issue are participants in this list.  If you
have web resources, or FAQs please point me in this direction.
     I have seen a fair amount of threads on related to this topic on this
list, but none of them address the equipment that is being used for the
collection and analyzing of netflow data.
     We are looking to collect about Gig of netflow data/hour.
We are looking into how we can purge unneeded details, and keep just
stats.  That said we will atleast want to keeps a weeks worth of data, and
backup old data to tape.  We most likely will us Solaris as the platform
of choice, but are open to others recommendations.  What memory and disk
storage setups are people using to collect and analyze data set of this
size?  Any recommendations are welcome.
     Please respond to me directly.

Thanks,
-Roy Hockett