Manage Exporters

The Admin > Resources > Manage Exporters page provides access to monitoring and management functions for all Exporters in the Plixer Scrutinizer environment.

The page is divided into an activity timeline for the top 10 Exporters and an overview table listing all Exporters alongside their activity details and settings. The default view includes known Exporters across all Collectors (By Exporter), but it can be toggled to display only unique Exporters (By Collector) via a dropdown.

Hint

Clicking on the arrows in the table header changes both the table’s sorting order and the datapoints displayed in the activity timeline. To change what details are included in the table, click the Available Columns button and select the columns to display.

The following table shows what columns can be displayed for each Exporter based on the view mode (By Exporter or By Collector) selected:

Column	Description	By Exporter	By Collector
Legend	Color assigned to the Exporter when shown in the activity timeline	Available	Available
Rank	Exporter rank based on the selected sorting order	Available	Available
Status Icon	Green: Exporter is enabled and available Red: Exporter is enabled but unavailable Yellow: No flows from the Exporter have been received Grey: Exporter is disabled	Available
Exporter	IP address or hostname (when view is set to show hostnames) of the Exporter	Available	Available
Status	Enabled: Flows will be collected, stored, and processed as normal Backup: Flows will only be collected for storage unresourced Enabled: Temporarily disabled due to low resources unresourced Backup: Temporarily disabled due to low resources Disabled: Flows will be ignored Unlicensed: Flows exceed the Exporter license count and will be ignored (set by the Collector)	Available	Available
MFSN/s	Average number of Missed Flow Sequence Numbers received from the Exporter per second	Available
Flows/s	Average number of flows received from the Exporter per second	Available
Interfaces	Number of interfaces	Available	Available
Packets	Average number of packets received from the Exporter per second	Available	Available
First Activity	Timestamp of first observed activity	Available	Available
Last Activity	Timestamp of most recent observed activity	Available	Available
Collector	IP address of Collector receiving flows	Available
Credential	SNMP credential(s) being used by the Exporter	Available	Available
Collectors	Number of Collectors that have received flows from the Exporter		Available
Total Flows	Total flow volume received from the Exporter		Available
Total MFSNs	Total number of Missed Flow Sequence Numbers received from the Exporter		Available
Tags	Additional tags attached to the Exporter		Available

Note

In the By Exporter view, all values and states displayed for an Exporter are relative to the Collector specified in its Collector column.

Hint

The unresourced states can be assigned to Exporters that need to be turned off due to limited resources. This allows them to be quickly returned to their previous state when resources become available again.

Configuring Exporter settings

Clicking on an IP address or hostname in the table opens the configuration tray for that Exporter.

The settings tray is divided into the following sections:

Information	Basic Exporter details
Collectors	List of Collectors that have received flows from the Exporter
Interfaces	List of interfaces available on the Exporter
Protocol exclusions	List of protocols excluded from collection
Flow Analytics algorithms	List of FA algorithms applied to flows collected from the Exporter
SNMP	SNMP credential (set) used for the Exporter
Tags	Additional tags associated with the Exporter

The tray also includes a dropdown to set the status of the Exporter (Enabled, Disabled, Backup, unresourced Enabled, unresourced Backup, or Unlicensed), as well as toggles to ignore flow durations, MFSNs, and/or outages.

To make changes to the Exporter’s configuration, click the edit (pencil) icon. Certain settings can only be modified via a different view/page (indicated by the link icon).

Note

When in the By Collector view mode, only the Information, Collectors, and Interfaces sections, in addition to the status dropdown and ignore toggles, are available in the configuration tray.

Additional actions/options

• Exporter settings can also be modified from the Bulk Actions tray, which becomes accessible when when one or more Exporters are selected using the checkboxes.

• Basic details for an Exporter can be viewed from the three-dot menu.

• Filtering, exporting, and general page option trays can be accessed via the Filters and Options buttons.