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Not many people become network managers because they like to babysit end-users, or maybe even think about them a lot. Now that networks are the operational foundation for most organizations, not to mention a very significant overhead cost, keeping them running and focused on the job at hand is critical. That means that understanding user behavior is just as important as understanding device behavior. It also means that blocking inappropriate network behavior is falling to the network… Continue

Bob Elliot from Soil Moisture Equipment Corp. recently wrote us to say that he has “used InterMapper and InterMapper Flows to monitor bandwidth and locate poorly configured firewalls, routers, and bad cables.” It’s always nice to know that technology is doing the kinds of things it’s supposed to be doing.



What really caught my eye was Bob’s next sentence. “InterMapper Flows showed we were only using two thirds of our internet bandwidth. We reconfigured the router. That was worth a… Continue

Dartware became an official Cisco Registered Partner in October 2009. It was analogous to getting married after living together for 10 years; that’s how long InterMapper has been monitoring Cisco networks.



It’s been a productive relationship.



We’ve formed partnerships with Cisco specialists around the world including Boardwalk Communications, Systems DE, and ConnecTIC. Those partners have done a great job explaining how InterMapper keeps watch over Cisco networks and… Continue

What is NetFlow?





Netflow is protocol that gives information about the senders, receivers, and types of traffic flowing in a network. As traffic passes through a router or switch (called an "exporter" for reasons that will be clear in a moment) on the network, the exporter keeps a cache of information about the packets, including the source and destination address and port, the length of the packet, certain information about its type of service, and… Continue