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Cisco NetFlow Collector 6.0
Product Overview
Cisco
®
NetFlow Collector (NFC) 6.0 is a NetFlow data collection and aggregation product that
provides a centralized view for data analysis and reporting. Cisco NFC empowers enterprises and
service providers with actionable intelligence to optimize their network infrastructure for application
delivery and network capacity planning. In addition, Cisco NFC is a critical enabler for business
support applications such as usage-based billing and service-level objective (SLO) monitoring.
Cisco NFC delivers industry-leading performance for helping enable network engineers to cope
with the high-volume flow data typical in large networks. It implements a scalable multitier
architecture for collecting, normalizing, correlating, and aggregating data from NetFlow-enabled
devices dispersed across geographically distributed networks. The architecture comprises two
layers: Cisco NFC as the first tier and Multi-NFC (MNFC) as the new tier-two component. Cisco
MNFC adds network-level correlation and time-based summarization, providing a central view for
all distributed Cisco NFC implementations in the network. Typically, Cisco MNFC is deployed at
the administrative control point of the network.
In keeping with the latest Cisco NetFlow enhancements, Cisco NFC supports all NetFlow formats.
It also supports correlation across multiple data sources such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
peering for Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) resolution. In addition to supporting a large selection of
predefined aggregation schemes, Cisco NFC offers the flexibility for users to define their own
aggregation schemes. Configuration and traffic reports are delivered through an advanced user-
friendly Web interface.
Cisco NFC supports standard and open interfaces and easily integrates with other report analysis
applications. Cisco NFC integrates with Cisco Performance Visibility Management (PVM); for more
information about Cisco PVM, visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/pvm.
Cisco NFC and Cisco PVM are both integral components of the Cisco Network Application
Performance Analysis (NAPA) Solution; for more information about the Cisco NAPA Solution, visit
http://www.cisco.com/go/napas.
Table 1 lists the features of Cisco NFC 6.0, and Table 2 gives the specifications for Cisco NFC 6.0.
Table 1. Features
Feature Description
Cisco NetFlow Collector 6.0
Flexible aggregation scheme builder Allows users to choose the aggregation that best solves their problem by
selecting the most relevant keys and values. The user is not restricted to using
predefined aggregation schemes.
BGP peering Correlates NetFlow data with BGP attributes. The user can collect the amount
of flows from one peering device or devices to another.
V1–V9 NetFlow format Supports all versions of Cisco IOS
®
Netflow. Cisco NFC supports Flexible
NetFlow .
Threshold setting Allows creation of threshold parameters for correlation analysis. When
triggered, Cisco NFC sends a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
trap to a designated northbound application.