Specifications

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Introduction 1-32
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Introduction 1-32
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
Traffic Analyzer Software
URL Monitoring
Traffic Analyzer Software
URL Monitoring
• Monitor hits on top URL
sites
• Collect URL host, path,
and content
• URL can be monitored like
an application (URL-based
Application)
This allows usage
statistics to be collected
− Packet / byte rates
− Who’s sending packets
(Host / Conversation
statistics)
• NAM permits filtering of
URL by host, path, and
content
• Monitor hits on top URL
sites
• Collect URL host, path,
and content
• URL can be monitored like
an application (URL-based
Application)
This allows usage
statistics to be collected
− Packet / byte rates
− Who’s sending packets
(Host / Conversation
statistics)
• NAM permits filtering of
URL by host, path, and
content
URL Monitoring
The NAM can also be configured to listen to HTTP traffic (TCP port 80) on a selected data source to collect
URL information.
A URL, for example: http://host.domain.com/intro?id=123, consists of a host part (host.domain.com), a
path part (intro), and an arguments part (?id=123). The collection can be configured to collect all parts or it
can be configured to collect only some of the parts and ignore others.
Once the URL statistics are collected, you can view the URL and the number of hits to it. This URL
collection list, illustrated above, can be filtered to look for any part of the URL, host, path, or argument.
To obtain additional statistics on the HTTP traffic, you can create an URL-based application. This allows the
NAM to collect application-based statistics (packet or bytes to/from), hosts, and conversations.