Browse, Configure, and Enable Potential Flow Monitor Sources
You can use the Potential Flow Monitor Sources dialog (Settings > Network Traffic Analyzer > NTA Device Configuration) for the following:
- View WhatsUp Gold discovery results for a survey of routers that support NetFlow MIB objects.
- Identify devices that can be used for NetFlow export.
- Status for flow monitor sources already exporting.
- Configure flow monitor sources directly from WhatsUp Gold (click the Configure button) for those sources that support remote configuration MIBs.
Note: When WhatsUp Gold has the necessary credentials to access target source devices using SNMP, the discovery process can determine if the device is NetFlow enabled, and if the NetFlow-specific MIB objects used to perform remote configuration of the device are also available from the WhatsUp Gold system.
Potential Netflow Sources View
The Potential Netflow Sources dialog displays flow source devices found by WhatsUp Gold during a network discovery scan. Information about devices that are potential Flow Monitor sources are displayed on this dialog along with the options for selecting a device for configuration using the Cisco NetFlow Device Configuration dialog.
The Potential Netflow Sources view has the following fields:
- Display Name. The name of the device as provided by the WhatsUp Gold discovery engine.
- Device Type. The type of the device. Only Cisco devices can be remotely configured using the Cisco NetFlow Device Configuration dialog.
- IP Address. The IP address of the device.
- Credentials. The name of the credential that will be used when authenticating with the device.
- Netflow MIB. Displays a true if the device has the MIB object with the OID matching the NetFlow MIB. Device can be configured by Flow Monitor if the correct credentials are available.
- Flow Monitor Status. Displays the status of the device with respect to Flow Monitor
- Receiving - This device is currently sending flows to Flow Monitor.
- Never Received - This device has never sent flows to our Flow Monitor collector.
- Disabled - This device exists as a source in Flow Monitor, but is disabled.