VOSS Insights DS9 for NetFlow Base Environment Installation#

VOSS Insights DS9 Standalone Installation#

VOSS Insights DS9 is a standalone single server to collect, process and store NetFlow-v5/v9/v10 and SNMP data. Visualization of the data will be handled via the VOSS Insights Dashboard reporting.

Assumptions#

  • Host machines will be located within the same sub-network

  • All the required TCP/UDP ports are open between DS9, Dashboard and NetFlow sources.

    • TCP: 5432 - 8082

    • UDP Depending on desired vflow: 2055 - 9996 - 4739 There is no redundancy requirement for any of the components

  • Internet access is available to the DS9 system during installation.

    After the installation, no internet access is necessary.

  • Customer premises equipment is sending NetFlow data to Collector successfully Collector can access customer premises equipment via SNMP v1/2/3 successfully

Installation#

Items that will be needed during configuration:#

  1. Hostname

  2. Dashboard Reporter IP

  3. For each NetFlow device added:

    • IP of device interface sending NetFlow to the DS9

    • NetFlow version

    • SNMP version

      • v1 or v2c - community string

      • v3 - user name, user password, and encryption key

    • NAT IP address (often same as IP )