Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Viewing top Vlan talkers

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•To view a report for a product, click the name of the product group to which the product belongs, and on the Product list page, click the icon for the product.

3.Click View to display the report.

4.In the Category list, select L3/L4 Reports.

5.In the Reports list, select MAC.

The following information is provided:

•MAC - The source and destination MAC addresses of the traffic and the VM host (Top VM Talkers reports). If Source and Destination VM Host column values are not related to VM, no values will display.

•Port - The ID of ports on which the traffic is being received and being sent. For VCS fabrics, the send and receive ports are from different devices.

•VLAN - The ID of the source and destination VLANs in the traffic.

•Ethernet QOS - The 802.1p priority tag configured on the incoming and outgoing traffic.

•User (802.1X) - The name of the user who originated the traffic and the user who received the traffic. This name is the ID the client used to gain access to the network.

•Frames - The size of the traffic in frames.

•MBytes - The size of the traffic in megabytes for the time duration shown on the report.

A subtotal is displayed under each top user by source and destination MAC addresses. If the report is for a product group, the name and IP address of the product that the traffic accessed appear in parentheses next to the MAC addresses. If the report is for an individual product, only the MAC addresses are displayed.

A subtotal for the remaining network users and a total of all network traffic appears at the bottom of the report.

Viewing top VLAN talkers

The Top VLAN Talkers report shows the top pairs of source and destination VLAN IDs being used by the top users. Complete the following steps to display the report.

1.Select Monitor > Traffic Analysis > Monitor sFlow.

2.On the Monitor sFlow dialog box, choose one of the following options:

•To view a report for a device group, click the report icon for the device group you want.

•To view a report for a device, click the name of the device group to which the device belongs, and on the Device list page, click the report icon for the device.

3.In the Category list, select L2 Reports.

4.In the Reports list, select VLAN.

The report presents the following information:

•VLAN - The ID of the source and destination VLANs used by the users.

•Ethernet QOS - The 802.1p priority tag configured on the incoming and outgoing traffic.

•Port - The ID of the port on which the traffic is being received and being sent.

•For VCS fabrics, the send and receive ports are from different devices.

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