Month Archives: May 2010

May 17th 2010 Press Release Plixer International, Inc., a leading global provider of network traffic monitoring and analysis tools, today announced that it has partnered with NTOP of Italy to launch Scrutinizer 7.7 with nProbe™ support for advanced flow-based monitoring to analyze client, server and application latency. If the flow involves HTTP, the URL information can also be exported. With its unique software-based nProbe™ support, Scrutinizer 7.7 is the first-of-its-kind NetFlow analyzer to enable affordable remote probe deployment on individual PCs or servers to track and pinpoint traffic and application …

Pycon Conference Florence, May 7-9 2010 ntop (https://www.ntop.org) is an open-source project aimed at monitoring network traffic. Recently, in order to make the tool even more flexible than before this for letting people adapt it to their needs, the python interpreter has been embedded into ntop. The result is that users can now use python for scripting ntop or building monitoring applications in python leveraging the ntop monitoring engine. This talk presents the ntop/python integration and describes some real network monitoring problems that have been effectively solved using this solution. …

AIMS 2010 Conference Tutorial Zürich, June 21-25, 2010 Large and high-speed networks produce a large number of flows that need to be collected and analyzed. Most collectors are unable to keep up with the flow export rate, and also have severe speed limitations when creating reports, due to the amount of data that needs to be analyzed. This tutorial shows how recent innovation in databases, combined with existing open-source software applications, allow flow collection and exploration of large-scale flows to become feasible. Furthermore the use of web 2.0 technologies enable …