Specifications

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All rights reserved.
Product Features 2-84
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Features 2-84
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
Types of Statistics Collected
Conversations
Types of Statistics Collected
Conversations
Enables the monitoring of pairs of network layer hosts that are
exchanging packets
Conversation Statistics
(Network and Application layers)
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• Choosing Conversation
Statistics (Network and
Application layers) from the
Setup > Monitoring > Core
Monitoring menu enables
traffic rates per conversation.
• Choosing MAC layer
conversation statistics will
give you the same data but
will show MAC addresses
rather than network
addresses and host names.
• Choosing Conversation
Statistics (Network and
Application layers) from the
Setup > Monitoring > Core
Monitoring menu enables
traffic rates per conversation.
• Choosing MAC layer
conversation statistics will
give you the same data but
will show MAC addresses
rather than network
addresses and host names.
Cumulative Data for Network and Application conversation statistics
Monitor > Conversations >Network Hosts
Core Monitoring: Conversation Statistics
This illustration provides an example of the reports you will see if you choose Conversation Statistics
(Network and Application Layers) from the Setup > Monitor > Core Monitoring menu. Notice that this table
shows you who is talking with whom. In this example, you can see which network devices are using multicast
addresses as destinations. You can use this information to identify utilization patterns between clients and
servers and also to identify configuration errors for network devices and identify broadcast and multicast
traffic by network address.
Note: Selecting any host in this report will display a drill-down report showing all application conversations the
selected host is involved in. More on this report and its options later in this chapter.