The NetFlow Collector
As described earlier, the NetFlow collector is a system running application software that is specialized for handling the raw NetFlow data. This system might be configured to receive the NetFlow information from many different systems in the infrastructure. Although viewing all of this raw data might make no sense to the human eye, the NetFlow collector software can aggregate and organize the information in a variety of ways to make perfect sense to network administrators. Custom reports serve to present the information in a variety of ways to different interested parties.
There are many different freeware and paid applications available for NetFlow collectors, but there are also reports that are typical across all applications. ...
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