Plixer

Scrutinizer and Plixer One

Plixer provides real-time visibility into your network traffic by analysing NetFlow data across your hybrid infrastructure. Get comprehensive insight into how traffic moves, including highlighting security issues.

Scrutinizer has been a trusted name in network monitoring and traffic analysis for many years.

How is the data collected?

In modern networks, more and more devices are producing flow outputs which contain useful information about what traffic they are seeing and how its being handled. That’s data from your network components, such as routers, switches, firewalls & load balancers.

Typically people talk in terms of NetFlow (Cisco term), but there are many different types depending on your hardware. Plixer accepts traffic from multiple sources such as NetFlow, S Flow, J Flow, IPFIX, plus SNMP & log data.

What information can the data provide?

Whatever the flow output, Plixer Scrutinizer collects it all and processes the data.

This real-time monitoring can show you how busy your network is and traffic patterns that are out of the ordinary. Across on-premise, hybrid cloud, and SD-WAN environments. Here’s a few examples:

• Identify who & what is using up all the bandwidth.
• And if users are accessing data they shouldn’t or their behaviour is unusual.
• Monitor the performance of applications.
• Track communication between on-premise, SaaS and Cloud networks.
• Detect over-loaded devices and potential security threats.
• Capacity planning – analyse trends to enable sizing, get visibility of under-utilized links, plus those which support the most traffic that may need policy control.

What’s new?

The latest version of Scrutinizer includes:

• Built-in AI Assistant – great for those team members who are new to the product
• Integration with Zscaler – providing visibility into encrypted tunnels
• Enhanced SNMP collection – to trend Layer 2 interface statistics
• Kubernetes visibility – adding container clarity
• Topology View – showing dependency mapping

Plixer One

For those looking for enhanced capability in one platform, Plixer One is the answer. Encompassing Scrutinizer, FlowPro, Endpoint Analytics, plus Machine Learning and Replicator.

To arrange a discussion or demonstration with one of our engineers contact us now on 01677 428700 or email [email protected]. Alternatively you can see the product on the manufacturer’s website.