Flow monitoring is a traffic analysis tool that provides a detailed view of the traffic on your virtual network and that passed through a vCloud Networking and Security App. The flow monitoring output defines which machines are exchanging data and over which application. This data includes the number of sessions, packets, and bytes transmitted per session. Session details include sources, destinations, direction of sessions, applications, and ports used.
Session details can be used to create firewall rules to allow or block traffic.
You can use flow monitoring as a forensic tool to detect rogue services and examine outbound sessions.
The main advantages of flow monitoring are:
You can easily analyze inter-VM traffic
Dynamic rules can be created right from the flow monitoring console
You can use it for debugging network related problems as you can enable logging for every individual virtual machine on an as-needed basis
You can view traffic sessions...
