NFO Deployment Guide
This guide serves as your strategic roadmap for designing and scaling a NetFlow Optimizer (NFO) footprint. While the NFO Installation Guide provides the tactical steps for software setup, this guide focuses on architectural planning and ensuring your data pipeline is optimized for your network's scale.
Step 1: Planning & Architecture
Before touching the command line, determine the architecture and placement strategy that matches your data volume, security requirements, and infrastructure type.
- Deployment Architecture & Strategy A comprehensive guide to choosing your deployment model.
- Deployment Models: Single-node, Security-focused (Distributed), and Horizontal Scaling (NFO Central).
- Cloud & Hybrid Scenarios: Strategic placement for AWS, Azure, and GCP to minimize latency and egress costs.
Step 2: Implementation (The Installation Phase)
Once your architecture is defined, move to the NFO Installation Guide to perform the technical setup. This phase covers:
- Preparation: Checking hardware specs and opening firewall ports.
- OS-Specific Setup: Running the installer on Linux, Windows, or launching the AWS AMI.
- Basic Config: Applying your license and setting the admin password.
Step 3: Deployment Validation
After the software is installed and your network devices are configured to export flows, you must verify the integrity of the entire pipeline.
- Deployment Validation Use this final health check to confirm:
- Ingestion: Raw flows are reaching the NFO host.
- Enrichment: Threat intel and GeoIP data are being successfully attached.
- Output: The "shrunk" and optimized data is arriving at your SIEM or Data Lake.