GenieATM FLB

No more imbalance of network traffic that leads to overloading or underutilization of your GenieATM Collectors. With FLB, network administrators no longer need to adjust their deployment manually in accordance with situations where some routers are handling more flow record traffic compared to the others. All Collectors can be plugged in and out with minimal effort of engineering.

With FLB, your GenieATM system is enhanced with high-availability and fault tolerance ability. Instead of manually switching to a redundancy or active-standby device, FLB diverts the flow records originally flowing to a failed Collector to another healthy Collector in the same cluster to ensure seamless redundancy without the need of additional backup devices.

As your router capacity grows along with your network scale, if a single source of traffic data exceeds the maximum capacity of a single Flow Collector, that Collector becomes redundant. FLB distributes traffic of high flows per second to Collectors with lower capacity and ensures all Collectors in the network are evenly utilized without becoming redundant. With GenieATM FLB, every Collector purchased is worth every penny of your investment.

At times when multiple flow-based vendor solutions are deployed in a network, having routers exporting flow packets to multiple destinations may result in overconsumption of router resources. FLB gathers flow packets from all routers in the network, then duplicates or distributes them to each required destination while ensuring resource consumption for each router is stable and in balance.

Analyzing all the flow records from all the routers can be an overwhelming task. So when you’ve known already what specific attributes of traffic you want to focus and analyze, you can specify the Filter policy on Flow Filter and have it screened out the flows of your interest for your GenieATM resources.