NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) - Updated February 17, 2016

Start Using NTA v4.1

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Top 10

• Data is Not Available on Web Console Charts
• MACRO SQL ERROR - Unclosed Quotation Mark After The Character String
• Critical Index Fragmentation Detected During Database Maintenance
• Compatibility of SolarWinds Orion Products For Installation And Upgrade
• Troubleshooting CBQoS Issues
• Configuring Cisco ASA Devices For Use With Orion NTA
• Installing NTA 4.0 Evaluation With Remote NTA Flow Storage: How to Get Orion Database Credentials in Case of Deadlock
• NTA 4.x Installation: Frequently Asked Questions
• Using NetFlow Version 9
• Enabling SFlow on Dell Power Connect Devices

Make The Most Of NTA

• Customer Training Program - Changing and Growing in 2015!
• The Rumors are True...Our Free Customer Training Program is Expanding
• Virtual Classroom Training Program for Current Customers - It's Here!
• NTA Demo Server
• Geek's Guide to the NetFlow v9 Datagram
• Network Traffic Analysis Using Cisco NetFlow
• Integration Tips
• SolarWinds Events Calendar

Latest Blogs

• Better Application Traffic Visibility
• A Stratagem for Obtaining Funding for your Projects
• FISMA / NIST 800-53 Compliance with SolarWinds Products
• Network Troubleshooting Tools I Can't Live Without
• Introducing: Orion User Interface (UI) Refresh
• 2015 Predictions and Beyond, Stop Telling Me What’s Happening, Let Me Tell You!
• Regular Checkups: Is Your NMS Still Loved?
• Favorite IT Metaphors,Sayings and Aphorisms
• Get with the Flow… with Netflow
• The Cost of Monitoring (But Not Automating)
• The Cost of (Not) Monitoring
• NTA 4.0 Storage Bug
• Don't Let March Madness Get to Your Network Bandwidth
• Egress Netflow: Untangle Default DSCP Markings
• Netflow on Cisco Switches: Netflow V9 Configuration for Cisco Catalyst 3850

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NTA How To Articles

• Changing the NTA Flow Storage Database Location
• How to Configure a Device for NetFlow?
• What is NTA Capturing?
• How to Configure Netflow Switches?
• Understanding Cisco ASA’s and Netflow
• How Orion NTA Data Compression Works?
• How to Use a Shared Folder as the Destination for NTA Flow Storage Database Backups?
• How to Rollback an Netflow Traffic Analyzer Installation After an Upgrade Failure?
• How Do I Turn Off the Windows Authentication Pop-Up?
• What Happens to My Historical Data After Migration?
• How Do the Ingress/Egress/Both Options Influence the NTA Top XX Endpoints Resource?
• How to Configure Netflow on a Cisco Router | Video Tutorial
• How Solarwinds Products Fit Together | Video Tutorial

NTA Tips & Tricks

• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part One
• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part Two
• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part Three
• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part Four
• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part Five
• Diving Deep with Netflow - Part Six

Most Recent / Popular KBs

• Manually Registering a SolarWinds License
• McAfee Web Gateway Labels Some SolarWinds Downloads as Viruses or Malware
• No Data Migrated When Upgrading Main And Additional Pollers to NTA 4.0
• Continue to Receive Notifications for Deleted Objects
• NTA can Analyze Traffic from Gigamon Devices with OS v4.1.00 and Newer
• Protecting Against "POODLE" Security Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
• Cisco 3560X/3750X Not Exporting Flows to NTA
• EOC-NTA Resource Performance Tuning
• NTA Flow Storage Database Not Fully Installed if Destination Folder Name Contains Non-ASCII Characters
• What is the Difference Between Ingress Bytes, Egress Bytes, Bytes Through and Total Bytes in NTA?
• Capture Netflow Traffic of a Endpoint Through a Proxy Server
• Can Netflow Navigator be Added as Custom Tab in NTA Summary
• Changing the NTA Flow Storage Location
• Installing Remote NTA Flow Storage Database on an Additional WebSite or Additional Poller Server

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• Administrator Guide
• Online Administrator Guide
• Evaluation Guide
• Release Notes
• Port Requirements
• Windows 2012, SQL 2012 and SolarWinds Products

NTA Video Zone

• Thwack Videos
• NetFlow Training for SolarWinds Customers: Part 1
• NetFlow Training for SolarWinds Customers: Part 2
• What is NetFlow?
• What Would the Geek Do to Reduce Network Bandwidth Problems?
• Bandwidth Monitoring with SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack
• Bandwidth Analyzer Pack Product Overview
• Flow Storage NTA Takes Network Traffic Monitoring to 11
• Yo! Do you know NetFlow?
• Analyzing App Traffic with Orion NTA
• Intro to CBQoS Monitoring
• SolarWinds Lab: Virus in a Haystack
• How to Improve Performance Across WAN and Internet Connections
• How to Evaluate New Network Hardware Vendors
• How to Configure NetFlow on Cisco Routers

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Troubleshoot NTA

• Data is Not Available for NBAR2
• NTA exception: The file exists
• Netflow Service Won't Start
• NTA Installation Problem
• ERROR SolarWinds.Orion.Web.InformationService.InformationServiceProxy - Source entity [Orion.NetFlow.Source] not found in catalog System.ServiceModel.FaultException
• Exception while configuring plugin NetFlow Traffic Analyzer component NetFlow Website. Invalid character in the given encoding
• ERROR SolarWinds.Orion.NetFlow.Service.Program - Unhandled Exception: Message: The File Exists
• Incorrect Info Bar Message: Scheduled NTA Flow Storage Database Backup Failed
• ERROR SolarWinds.Netflow.Processing.Workflow.NetFlowPacketWorkflowManager - Error flushing data System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Exception 'SqlException' while resolving string IDs
• UDT Endpoint Details Resource Does Not Show on NTA Endpoint Details View
• Interface Speed of Cisco ASA Devices are Missing in NTA Charts
• Netflow Information Not Received from Cisco 3750 (Bug ref. CSCtq22963)
• Local/Remote Flow Storage Database Service Crashes Often and Stops Functioning
• Error: FastbitCLR.FastbitTable - Exception deleting partition directory [d:\SolarWinds\NTA\FlowStorage\Data\Flows\TN#2014-01-08@0_0] in table [Flows] : Access to the path '-part.msk' is denied
• Additional Web Server Pages Fail with the Error: SolarWinds.Netflow.FastBit.Client.FastBitCommand - Exception during FastBit command execute: System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException

What We Are Working On NTA

• What We Are Working On After NTA v4.1
• Suggest New Features for NTA

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