Viewing potential Flow Monitor sources

The Potential Flow Monitor sources dialog is a list of the routers discovered by WhatsUp Gold that have the potential of being a NetFlow source. When a network device such as a router is discovered and WhatsUp Gold has the necessary credentials to access the device using SNMP, the discovery process determines if the device is NetFlow enabled, and if the NetFlow MIB used to perform remote configuration of the device is available on the device.

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.

• 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.

See Also Preparing network devices Determining which network devices to monitor Manually configuring devices to export flow data to Flow Monitor Configuring sFlow enabled devices to export flow data to Flow Monitor About Flexible NetFlow About Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) About CBQoS Using Flow Monitor to Configure Cisco NetFlow Devices