Fluke Networks NetFlow Tracker

Technical Specifications
NetFlow Tracker has been designed to provide quality reports to the end user as quickly as possible. When operating on suitable hardware (see below), Fluke Networks has established recommendations to ensure the best possible performance.

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Router and Switch Requirements

• Cisco, Juniper and Nortel - various NetFlow or IPFIX-enabled switches and routers, given appropriate hardware and software support. Cisco 6500 and 4500 series switches are capable of exporting NetFlow, given the appropriate hardware.
• Any device capable of exporting NetFlow or IPFIX. For the software to function properly with a device, the exports must contain correct ifIndex information and have otherwise well-formed NetFlow export packets.
• Any device capable of exporting sFlow such as those from HP, Extreme, Foundary, Alcatel-Lucent and others.
• Any device without inherent NetFlow or IPFIX capability may also be fully supported through the use of the nProbe NetFlow generator.
• NetFlow export versions 1, 5, 7 and 9 are supported, in addition to the emerging IPFIX standard (IP Flow Information eXport).

Platforms
NetFlow Tracker is available as software or on a pre-cofigured Fluke Networks appliance. Software is licensed by the number of devices exporting to the NetFlow Tracker server (note Cisco 4500 & 6500 series devices may count as more than one device).

The Appliance is a 1U rack mount server with Dual Quad Core Xeon CPU, 8GB RAM, 6 x 300GB RAID 10 configured disks.

NetFlow Tracker Server Recommendations

• Operating system: Windows 2003 Server / Linux
• Hardware specifications:

  	CPU	RAM	Disk
  High 300+ routers (up to 40K flows/s)	4 CPUs (2.6GHz +)	4+ GB RAM	4+ 300GB,10k RPM SAS Drives (Raid 10)
  Medium 100+ routers (up to 10K flows/s)	2 CPUs (2.6GHz +)	3 GB RAM	3+ 10k RPM SAS Drives (Raid 5 or 10)
  Low (up to 5K flows/s)	1 CPU (3GHz +)	3 GB RAM	3+ 10k RPM SAS Drives (Raid 5)