Most of these things, yes. Add: Troubleshooting/operational support Customer reporting
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:38 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:53 AM David Bass <davidbass...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Wondering what others in the small to medium sized networks out there are >> using these days for netflow data collection, and your opinion on the tool? > > > a question not asked, and answer not provided here, is: > "What are you actually trying to do with the netflow?" > > Answers of the form: > "Dos detection and mitigation planning" > "Discover peering options/opportunities" > "billing customers" > "traffic analysis for future network planning" > "abuse monitoring/management/investigations" > "pretty noc graphs" > > are helpful.. I'm sure other answers would as well.. but: "how do you > collect?" is "with a collector" and isn't super helpful if the collector > can't feed into the tooling / infrastructure / long-term goal you have. >
