In addition to using export capable hardware devices, it is also possible to use Flow Exporter to export NetFlow v5 or NetFlow v9 to FlowTraq Server. Listed below are some reasons to consider using Flow Exporter.
A NetFlow-, sFlow-, jFlow-, or cFlow-capable device is not available. For instance, your hardware may not support flow export, or you may be monitoring virtual machines on which you do not have access or permissions to configure the routing or switching hardware.
You would prefer to avoid putting the additional CPU and memory load on your switch or router and instead would like to use a network tap or the more lightweight port mirroring (or SPAN port) feature instead.
You would like to monitor traffic at specific hosts or servers. (This is particularly useful in cloud deployments.)
You have access to packet capture files (PCAP) and would like to convert those into flows for analysis though FlowTraq.
Flow Exporter has the same platform support as FlowTraq. Please refer to http://www.flowtraq.com/corporate/product/flow-exporter for more information on installation and configuration.
