The municipal SOC collector must receive NSX IPFIX records for over…

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The municipal SOC collector must receive NSX IPFIX records for overlay and firewall flow visibility. Where does the operator enable NSX IPFIX rather than vCenter NetFlow?

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Enable IPFIX under Plan & Troubleshoot or the NSX IPFIX network settings toward the city collector — NSX IPFIX is the city’s own flow postcard, mailed from NSX Manager’s Plan & Troubleshoot (or NSX IPFIX settings) to the SOC. vSphere NetFlow, Horizon Blast, and the ISP router are different mailboxes.

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Enable vSphere distributed-switch NetFlow on the compute VDS and call that the NSX IPFIX method

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Turn on Horizon Blast UDP and treat session metrics as NSX IPFIX

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Export BGP communities from the physical ISP router as the NSX flow record source

The municipal SOC collector must receive NSX IPFIX records for overlay and firewall flow visibility. Where does the operator enable NSX IPFIX rather than vCenter NetFlow?

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