IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Mediation: Problem Statement
2010
Flow-based measurement is a popular method for various network monitoring usages.The sharing of flow-based information for monitoring applications having different requirements raises some open issues in terms of measurement system scalability, flow-based measurement flexibility, and export reliability that IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Mediation may help resolve.This document describes some problems related to flow-based measurement that network administrators have been facing, and then it describes IPFIX Mediation applicability examples along with the problems.