Exporters and interfaces are automatically discovered and added to exporter and interface list when the exported netflow UDP packet from the exporter is processed by NetFlow Analyzer.

Exporters and interfaces first appear with generic names consisting of exporter IP address (currently used for NetFlow export) and interface SNMP index.

 

  • In order to complete exporter names discovery, it is required to have basic network administration knowledge and access to network devices.
  • You need administrator privileges for setting up SNMP policies in NetVizura Control Panel.

 

To discover exporter and interface names you will need to set up SNMP policies:

  1. Enable and set SNMP on your exporters
  2. Make sure that NetVizura can send SNMP requests to the exporters
  3. Add SNMP policies to NetVizura (Settings > Control Panel > SNMP Policies).

 

After that, discovering process is very easy:

  1. Go to Top N > Exporters tree
  2. Right click on exporter or interface node
  3. Select Discover

Exporter or interface name will be set to sysName, while description (in tooltip) will be set to sysDescr value received via SNMP request. 

NetFlow Exporter Discovery

To learn how to configure SNMP policies in NetVizura, see Configuring SNMP Policies.

After discovery, additional information about the selected exporter or interface is available in the Details panel (Read more in chapter Using Details).