Chapter 3 Monitoring and Analysis

Analyzing Traffic

Host Conversations

If you choose Analyze > Traffic > Detailed Views > Host Conversations, and click on “Host” in the host coversation tables, you can see detailed lists of all the conversations for a particular host:

Table of hosts which are sending packets to the selected host, along with application, vlan, and traffic rate information.

Table of hosts which are receiving packets from the selected host, along with application, vlan, and traffic rate information.

Breakout of application usage for the selected host.

Use the Filter button in the Interactive Report (left side of the screen) to change the parameters of the information displayed.

The NAM Traffic Analyzer only supports a maximum Time Range of one hour filter for the Host Conversations, Network Conversation, RTP Streams, Voice Calls Statistics, Calls Table, and RTP Conversations.

Network Conversation

If you choose Analyze > Traffic > Detailed Views > Conversations, you can see a detailed analysis of all Network Conversations (including packets and bits information).

Use the Filter button in the Interactive Report (left side of the screen) to change the information displayed.

Figure 3-6 Network Conversations

The NAM Traffic Analyzer only supports a maximum Time Range of one hour filter for the Host Conversations, Network Conversation, RTP Streams, Voice Calls Statistics, Calls Table, and RTP Conversations.

Top Application Traffic

When you choose Analyze > Traffic > Detailed Views > Top Application Traffic, you can view the top applications by traffic rate over a selected time and for the specified site and/or data source.

 

 

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