Avaya's Ip Flow Manager (Ipfm); Ipfm Supported Devices; Ipfm Features And Capabilities - Avaya 4500 Technical Configuration Manual

6. Avaya's IP Flow Manager (IPFM)

Avaya's IP Flow Manager (IPFM) application can be used as an IPFIX collector to analyze IP flow
from any NetFlow v5 or NetFlow v9 enabled devices. All management is provided through a Web-
based user interface.
IP Flow Manager is one of the Unified Communications Management (UCM) applications offered
by Avaya Data Networking division. It is a web based network monitoring application that reports
both Data & Voice traffic usage patterns and user behavior on the network. IPFM provides the
visibility into application usage including who, what, when, & where - leading to increased
productivity and more accurate network capacity planning. Using IPFM user can monitor
utilization on a core or edge router as well as the traffic causing the utilization which in turn helps
network admin to understand how network is functioning and also helps to anticipate probable
occurrence of network outage, link failure and system downtime.
IPFM can be installed as a standalone UCM application or can co-exist with other UCM
applications for demonstration only. For performance considerations it is always strongly
recommended to install IPFM on a separate server while achieving interworking with other UCM
applications through UCM Common Services (refer to UCM product documentation).
Following section describes few troubleshooting topics which user may face during IPFM
installation, configuration and/or monitoring.

6.1 IPFM Supported Devices

IP Flow Manager supports the following Avaya devices

ERS 4500 Release 5.4 or higher both in standalone and stacked configuration

ERS 5500 Release 5.0 or higher both in standalone and stacked configuration

ERS 5600 Release 6.0 or higher both in standalone and stacked configuration

ERS 8300 Release 4.2 or higher

ERS 8600 Release 4.1 (R or RS Modules) or higher

6.2 IPFM Features and Capabilities

6.2.1 Dashboard
The IPFM Dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of:

Devices list the enabled within IPFM to receive IPFIX packet and whether the IPFM
server is receiving data.

Events list the devices that have encountered a threshold being exceeded or reset.

Top 10 Applications as analyzed by IPFM within the monitored network.

Top 10 Conversations as analyzed by IPFM within the monitored network.
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