Garland Prisms

Overview

Use Garland Prisms and Flowmon together to gain insights into your network traffic. This solution combines:

• Garland Prisms for traffic collection
• Flowmon modules for advanced analysis:
  • Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD)
  • Network behavior analysis
  • Performance monitoring
  • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection
  • On-demand packet capture

When you install Garland Prisms agents on your virtual instances, they route traffic copies to Flowmon's monitoring interfaces for processing.

Prerequisites

You must have:

• A running instance of Flowmon (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• A number of running client instances where Garland Prisms agents can be installed.

Deployment

For an up-to-date deployment guide, refer to the official documentation for Garland Prisms.

Flowmon Configuration

To set up your Flowmon instance:

1. Go to the Flowmon Configuration Center of your Flowmon instance.
2. Select the Monitoring Ports panel.
3. Under Global settings > Advanced settings, enable VxLAN decapsulation on port 4789.
4. Click Save.