Overview
SessionVista™ Exporter
The SessionVista™ Exporter is the workhorse of the SessionVista™ family. It permits specific and general monitoring of network traffic including over 700 protocols and 4,000 attributes. The Exporter examines each packet, classifies it and extracts the user selected information on a per flow basis. Extracted information (metadata and content) can be streamed for real-time processing or passed to the SessionVista™ Collector where it is entered into a database. Because the SessionVista™ Exporter extracts packet metadata and does not store complete packets, a 100 to 1 information reduction of the native line rate is performed which greatly reduces information storage costs even on 10 GbE networks. The SessionVista™ Exporter utilizes an extended IPFIX protocol for the transport of extracted information to desired destinations. It is currently available on x86 processors and supports speeds up to 20 Gbps. The SessionVista™ Exporter is currently available in a 1U chassis using x86 processor platforms supporting two speed grades: 4 Gbps (SessionVista™ EX-04) and 20 Gbps (SessionVista™ EX-20). The 20 Gbps platform utilizes Quad 8 Core (32 total cores) Intel® Nehalem processors with Dual 10G Ethernet interfaces. The 4 Gbps platform utilizes a single 8 Core Intel® Nehalem processor with Quad 1G Ethernet traffic inputs.
SessionVista™ has integrated deep packet inspection software with SessionVista’s control and IPFIX packet generation software to create the high speed packet processing engine. The output includes extended IPFIX formatted metadata as well as packet information content such as email attachments, email bodies, Instant Message text, and VOIP. The SessionVista™ Exporter product supports survey applications up to 20Gb/s. Intuitive GUI controls enable simple configuration and selection of network survey and directed search parameters. SessionVista’s products support the industries largest range of protocols and attributes. Extracted data is transported in industry standard based protocols and can be directly stored in a database enabling easy access by multiple entities to the rich data sources extracted.
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x86 Based Exporter
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