SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management
software, today unveiled
SolarWinds
Flow Tool Bundle, a set of free analysis tools designed to
quickly distribute, test, and configure NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, helping
technology professionals gain greater visibility into their network
infrastructure. Built to support their industry-leading network management
portfolio,
the new SolarWinds Flow Tool Bundle is available immediately and can be installed
on Windows 7, 8, and 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016,
and 2019.
"The development and general availability of the Flow Tool Bundle
demonstrates our continued commitment to providing free tools to the technology
professional community," said Brandon Shopp, vice president product management
and strategy, SolarWinds. "By engaging with our users in forums like the THWACK
community, we are able to build products designed to address the needs of
today's tech pros, providing them with the tools to succeed in dynamic and
distributed environments."
Free Flow Tool Bundle Highlights
SolarWinds Flow Tool Bundle integrates
two new tools with an existing free flow tool:
- NetFlow Replicator can help tech pros more
easily distribute flow data to multiple destinations for traffic or
security analysis and configure random sampling of flow data packets to
help reduce the load on the monitored system and collector.
- NetFlow Generator simulates network flow
data so tech pros can test and validate their configurations. This
functionality is especially helpful when testing the behavior of more
complex network entities, such as load balancers, firewall rules, and
alert trigger conditions.
- NetFlow Configurator remotely configures and
activates NetFlow v5 on supported Cisco devices. With
this tool, tech pros can easily set up the router to send NetFlow records
to their collector.
Key features include:
- Replicate
IPv4 and IPv6 flow data to multiple destinations
- Generate
simulated flow traffic to aid in flow tool troubleshooting
- Test and
validate configurations
- Remotely
and quickly configure NetFlow v5
- Activate NetFlow and find bandwidth hogs