IPFIX
Security and network administrators use Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX) and its predecessor, NetFlow, for troubleshooting and auditing. IPFIX, a modern IETF standard protocol for exporting traffic flow information, is based on NetFlow.
A flow is a sequence of packets sent in a given time slot and sharing the same 5-tuple values of source IP address, source port, destination IP address, destination port, and protocol. The flow information can include properties such as timestamps, packet/byte counts, input/output protocols, TCP flags, and encrypted flow information.
An IPFIX specification requires the identification of exporters and network entities that monitor traffic and export it in the IPFIX model. Collectors are systems that collect the traffic.
If there is IP connectivity from VMware Cloud On AWS, an IPFIX collector can be placed anywhere on the network. It could reside on-premises, within a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, or in AWS.
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