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Status Future consideration
Workspace SevOne
Categories Network Management System (NMS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 7, 2025

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Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

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I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan group only allow flows from the Routers_Japan" group" in a single rule instead of making a per-DNC flow rule. 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 7, 2025

    For the flow input, router, side I agree and use that function. BUT, what about on the collector side? I have at least 5 DNC servers in the US alone and quickly growing. Expand that to all global regions and I have a lot of, in my mind excess, flow rules which could be boiled down to five rules in total. I need to define a new flow rule per DNC server allowing the flow input group "USA_Routers" to the single DNC "USA_DNC07". Sure would be nice to have a single rule "<flow input group> permitted to <flow collector group>" instead of remembering to make a new rule for every DNC deployment.

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    Matt Sweet
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    |     Mar 7, 2025

    Hi there, just a quick FYI while we consider this. If you are polling devices via SNMP and they are getting mapped to Flow devices by their interface index in SNMP, you will be able to utilize Device Groups in reporting to achieve largely the same outcome.

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