Monitoring Network Traffic
Who Are the Top 5 Talkers?
Others
The dark gray portion of the stacked bar represents a summation of all of the other activity that occurred during that minute. There is no additional information contained in this portion of the bar. It can be a useful indicator of an overloaded network when what you see on the graph is large areas of dark gray with no particular user causing a problem.
If your graph displays large portions of gray, selecting another parameter, such as “Top Destinations”, may show different results. For example, if a large number of nodes begin backing up to a single server, displaying the Top Destinations graph would show the server as the “top talker”.
N o t e | If your graph is only displaying “Other” data, there may be a problem with the |
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Top5 View Menu Items
The Top5 View has three menu selections. The functions of each are described in the following table.
Table 9-1. Functions of the Top5 Menu
Menu Item | Function | |
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File | Close: Closes the Top5 View window | |
View | Displays a new graph for each attribute: | |
| • | Utilization% |
| • | Frames/sec |
| • | Broadcasts/sec |
| • | Multicasts/sec |
Locate | • | Locate End Node: Opens the Locate End Node dialog box. |
• Locate Segment: Opens a topology map with the selected segment highlighted.
Locating A Segment or End Node
The Locate menu item lets you select a specific node or segment. Select an end node or segment from the list or enter the IP address of the node you want to locate.
