Services & Locations
IsarFlow allows the grouping of interfaces or IP addresses across different routers. This enables the representation of locations - regardless if the location is connected through one, two or more interfaces.
The complete traffic on all interfaces or IP addresses that belong to a location is captured through the selection of this location in the drop down menu of views. Which interfaces/IP addresses belong to a view is displayed in the title.
![Services Lokationen 1](https://isarflow.de/_Resources/Persistent/d/3/3/d/d33dafc6e34607993e369705f5fcfdf109f79ad0/services_lokationen_1.jpg)
By using these logical views on your network, real traffic matrices can be created which - next to the accounting analyses - offer a quick overview over the traffic relations. The IP views strengthen the independence from the physical infrastructure and thereby allow logical layers to be included in the analyses.
![50 Topsessionmatrix03 DE](https://isarflow.de/_Resources/Persistent/c/f/2/b/cf2b0c833da2643c7f547ae609f7be1732ee4264/50_topsessionmatrix03_DE.png)
In addition, IsarFlow offers the possibility to define applications as a combination of IP protocols and IP addresses.
Thus, you can include applications in your analyses which are very difficult to capture otherwise, i.e.:
- application server(s) changing ports are easily tracked by IP address
- applications providing a web portal are seperated from other HTTP traffic by IP address
Furthermore, it is possible to aggregate several protocols to an application group. Infrastructure traffic for instance, is a composite of SNMP, ICMP, DNS, network control messages and many other protocols. Proper arrangement increases clarity and lowers administrative effort, but also requires less specific knowledge about protocolls.
![ApplikationenInterfaces1](https://isarflow.de/_Resources/Persistent/0/4/6/9/0469857dcacde642a55c206a3c6f55688f15e246/ApplikationenInterfaces1.png)
The image on the right shows evaluation of the data from above by means of application groups. IsarFlow ships preconfigured with customizable default groups.
![ApplicationInterfaces3](https://isarflow.de/_Resources/Persistent/f/a/d/1/fad135b229379a56724d4aab89292e72838a004e/ApplicationInterfaces3.png)