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Introduction 1-27

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Introduction 1-27

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Traffic Analyzer Software

Application, Host, and Conversation Monitoring

Traffic Analyzer Software

Application, Host, and Conversation Monitoring

Real-Time &

Historical

Reports

Available

Protocol Distribution

Conversation Pair Statistics

Detailed Host and

Conversation Statistics

Application, Conversation, and Host Monitoring

One of the greatest strengths of RMON is its ability to look inside the packet at the upper protocol layers to

extract network layer host and conversation pair information. This information gives you Layer 3 network

devices identified by network address or host name and bandwidth consumption per host. It also identifies

which hosts are talking to each other and how much traffic is generated between every conversation pair, in

both directions.

RMON looks deeper into the packet to also identify the applications that are generating the packets that

traverse the switch. Application monitoring not only offers you valuable application distribution statistics

(every application that has consumed bandwidth and how much), but it also gives you the ability to see which

network hosts are using which applications. All this information is essential for identifying acute performance

problems because it points to hosts that are using server and switch resources and how much they are using

them. For a more proactive approach to excessive resource consumption, you can create alarms based on

host and conversation pairs to notify you when usage exceeds a supportable threshold. Host, conversation,

and application usage statistics also support network planning efforts because this information can be used

to identify usage patterns for both users as well as switch, link, server, and application resources.