Announcing InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.3
November 2018: InMon Traffic Sentinel 8.3 is now available for download. This is a free upgrade for customers who have purchased annual maintenance.
Previous release: 8.2
New features include:
Animated Particle Traffic Visualization
To address the challenge of visualizing large traffic matrices, this new animation allows detailed end-to-end flows to be presented as an animation of moving particles. The same flow will always follow the same path and appear with the same color, so the human eye is rapidly drawn to anything new or unusual. Hover the mouse over a stream of particles and the animation will stop and report details of the flow.
Appearing under Home>Dashboard, these pages can be copied and customized using the File>REST mechanism, so you can create as many as you want and arrange your local address space along the north, south, east and west axes. See Customizing the Dashboard.
BGP AS-Number Lookups
In previous Traffic Sentinel releases the inclusion of BGP AS information depended on either:
- Routers including BGP fields in their sFlow or NetFlow feeds, or
- Configuring Traffic Sentinel to peer with a BGP gateway or route-reflector
This works the same way as the "country(ipsource)" and "country(ipdestination)" lookups, and so it also appears when you use Search>Host to get more information on any address:
Support for Cisco IPFIX-315 Export
Cisco NCS switches now export the IPFIX 315 "dataLinkFrameSection" Information Element. Traffic Sentinel now supports this, and delivers the L2-L7 full-stack monitoring that is made possible with this extension. The feed can also be forwarded to sFlow-RT for real-time analysis with sub-second latency.