Hi folks, as I received a CCNP Official Certification Library, fifth edition thanks to Cisco Press (Jamie) for the great support lending on me all the time. To brief about the CCNP Official Certification Library, fifth edition is a comprehensive package for the four Cisco CCNP exams BCMSN, BSCI, ISCW and ONT. Starting from this post I will try my best review all the four Certification books comes with the CCNP Official Certification Library, fifth edition thanks. To start with I will go with the CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, fourth edition.

The CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, fourth edition is a true guide for preparing for the Cisco BCMSN (642-812) exam. The author David Hucaby did a wonderful job by the explaining the material in short concise way that facilitates easy learning.

The CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, fourth edition is divided into six parts , each part is well written and  more over its easy to understand. The most liked chapter for me is the Router, Supervisor and Power redundancy. Thanks to David Hucaby, I was able to migrate our network from HSRP to GBLP succefully. He explained the concept very well like I said it’s really easy to understand.

The CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, fourth edition does have the Scenarios for final preparations  There are nine scenarios covering wide range of concepts and are helpful not only from the exam point of view but also it can be used to troubleshoot the problems in real networks faced by some folks.

One more amazing thing I liked in the CCNP BCMSN Official Exam Certification Guide, fourth edition is the practice exams which are handful for the folks who has little exposure to real world networks, but it’s always recommend to have some hands on experience with Switches configuration and analysis.

Overall an excellent guide which can leads you to taste the success of passing Cisco BCMSN (642-812) exam. I would rate this guide 4.5 out of 5.

In one of my past posts, I mentioned about the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer, still I am testing some more netflow analyzers . Manage Engine recently released the latest version of its Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5.

So I though let me try the demo version of Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5, the new version features a customizable administrator dashboards allows an IT administrator to monitor the critical parts of the network infrastructure.

The new  Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5 ‘s Site-to-Site traffic monitoring capability helps businesses track network traffic patterns between separate physical locations, ensuring business-critical applications have the right amount of bandwidth allocated for maximum performance. This level of understanding is vital for the day-to-day performance of existing applications, as well as for planning infrastructure growth. It is also key to IT departments that chargeback business units for the volume of network traffic generated, and for service providers who bill customers based on volume and speed.

Some of the features of Manage Engine  Netflow Analyzer 7.5 are as follows

The Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5 is worth trying the demo version for 30 days.  The good thing about the Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5 is the enhanced reporting tool, customizable dash board and ease to manage and install.

It’s my habit to always  try something new or some interesting. As we have a huge project coming up, hence  I am in the process of testing many windows supported netflow analyzers.  Since I am aware of Manage Engine Netflow analyzer I thought for a change let me start over with Scrutinizer netflow analyzer.

I just went to the Scrutinizer web site and downloaded the latest Scrutinizer netflow analyzer; there support seems to be good, the moment I downloaded the  Scrutinizer netflow analyzer;  I received an email offering a trial key with few faqs of the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer.

Some of the key features for which I got interested in the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer are

• Captures all the flows, all the records, all the time. It supports Cisco Net Flow, sFlow and other flow technologies and uses that data to monitor the overall network health.
• Identifies which users, applications and protocols are using the most network traffic. It is not limited to the Top 10! All of the flows can be viewed and exported.
• Custom Net Flow Reports help visualization of which routed ports on the network are the most congested.
• Provides long term trending details for overall LAN and WAN bandwidth usage, so bandwidth needs can be accurately gauged.
• Enhances network security by alerting network administrators of suspicious or potentially hazardous network behavior patterns.
• Central Interface offers a distributed solution that scales to enterprise level networks.

 Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is very easy to install and configure. The dash board is customizable and the most attractive part of the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is the reports, you can generate customized reports which can be based on protocols, IP address and many other parameters. One more advantage of using Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is you can monitor the hosts which are accessing you tube as well. Worth trying the trail full version you can always request for an extension for the license key.

http://www.plixer.com/support/faq.php

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