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@Guest comments -
So in simple terms it seems to come down to "Hosts, subnets or groups" and "Peer hosts, subnets or groups" really just a group of subnets / ports for each of these (that have been "manually" defined.
So we want to see traffic between this "complex rule" and "another complex rule" where a complex rule for example, teams is as per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/urls-and-ip-address-ranges?view=o365-worldwide52.112.0.0/14, 52.122.0.0/15, 2603:1063::/38UDP: 3478, 3479, 3480, 3481
So if a complex rule can be created (by an admin) and then shared, so available for anyone to use (as per their example). If we can do this we'd be 80% or more across the most common use cases CIO use Riverbed for.
Let me know if this makes sense and want to drill more into. I can raise an idea but this is really the explanation of the idea previously raised (flow reporting that is not device-centric)
it looks like we want make it easier and more flexible for the user to have pre-defined/ saved flow filters that match business logic and that can be used to quickly drill into the report data and do enrichment/name resolution/grouping of the results
business logic would include complex filters for hosts, subnets, regions, apps
reference points of existing functionality are named segments/subnets used for grouping/resolution at report time and app profiles/category used for grouping/resolution at ingestion but limited to 5-tuple in terms of flow fields.
We should extend this profile definition to all fields in the flow records like Kubernetes node/pod/namespace for example.
Provide API support to provision these profiles via script
@Guest
this idea look similar to https://bigblue.aha.io/ideas/ideas/SEV1-I-410
As we discussed, these use cases are possible using flow filters that make use of network segments/subnets. We can make it easier for the user by providing report variables for filters and support for more complex filters ( which will be available in 8.0)