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Overview

This screen displays the current status of all the interfaces via the NetFlows that are being received. They are ordered by default by percent utilization (based on layer 3 information) of the interface. This screens gives a birds eye view of all the flows as well as the uptime of the router they are being received from.

Set this option to configure how many minutes the InBound and OutBound utilization bars should be based on.

THE ROUTER OR SWITCH MUST BE CONFIGURED TO SEND NETFLOW OR SFLOW. Click Here to learn how to enable NetFlow on the routers.

Click on the Port Speed to manually configure the speed of the interface or to over ride what was discovered by SNMP.

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LED Status



These first two icons display the status of the Scrutinizer Collector and Filer services. For example, the Collector has the following meanings:

WARNING: Scrutinizer should be installed with administrator privileges else, the LED color may stay a constant RED regardless of service status. All services should be running with "local administrator" privileges.


The last two LEDs have to do with:


Click on them to learn more about what they indicate.

Debug Mode

Scrutinizer's debug console (i.e. CollectD.exe or scrut_collector.exe in v6.03) provides real time insight into the conversations coming into the NetFlow collector. It is also used to confirm real-time that NetFlow is being received by Scrutinizer. To run it, bring up windows services and stop the Scrutinizer NetFlow Collector service. Then, bring up a command prompt.

The service Status should appear blank as shown below: (hit F5 to Refresh!)

NOTE: Scrutinizer should be installed with administrator privileges.

After the services has been stopped, bring up a command prompt and go to the ~/SCRUTINIZER/html directory and type in "collectd" or "scrut_collector".

The above can be very helpful when trying to confirm that Scrutinizer is receiving Sflow or NetFlow packets.

NOTE if collectd does not scroll by as shown above displaying the NetFlow coming in, NetFlow is most likely not configured properly on the router. Click on the Manage Devices icon Located in the upper right hand corner as it will bring up the Manage Devices interface where the ports to listen for flows can be modified. Click Here to learn how to properly configure NetFlow.

In situations where it never changes, confirm that the flow source is set to “ACTIVE” in the Manage Flows settings page. If it’s inactive, this message won’t go away.

REMEMBER because the collector is running in debug mode, the service LED in the status page will be blinking red until the service is running and set to automatically start on reboot.

CAUTION after shutting down the collectd window, make sure the service is restarted !!!

Utilization

The flows in this screen can be filtered by entering text into the Router, Interface and Port Speed fields. The Transmit and Receive consumption bars will change color depending on the percent of utilization. Place the mouse over the bar to display an ALT tag with the actual consumption amount.

Click on the bars above to bring up the most recent 5 minute interval of data on the selected interface. By default, Top Hosts are displayed.

Important Note: Scrutinizer was engineered to be a passive collection tool with no SNMP polling requirements. Because of this, utilization is based on layer 3 and above traffic.

Putting the mouse over a router name or the corresponding interface will cause the entry to highlight in light green. Clicking on the Interface will bring up the top Hosts for the interface.

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Change Image

To change the Scrutinizer image from the left frame: Make a backup of this file: ./html/icons/scrutinizer.png. Overwrite the current scrutinizer.png with the new one.

Would you like to see a feature added to Scrutinizer? Click Here and tell us about your feature request.

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