Community
- Command Central
- MVP Program
- Monthly Mission
- Blogs
- Groups
- Events
- Media Vault
Products
- Observability
- Network Management
- Application Management
- IT Security
- IT Service Management
- System Management
- Database Management
Content Exchange
- SolarWinds Platform
- Server & Application Monitor
- Database Performance Analyzer
- Server Configuration Monitor
- Network Performance Monitor
- Network Configuration Manager
- SQL Sentry
- Web Help Desk
Free Tools & Trials
Store

best way or tool to find bandwidth hog

marknolo

which tool or combination of tools would allow be to track down what user is hogging the bandwidth on our T1.

Thanks

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

All comments

rknight

The tools measure overall bandwidth on the link... If you want to find the big users then turn on IP ACCOUNTING on the interface of the router and watch for the IP address generating the most traffic...

Cheers
Ric Knight

BryanBecker

2 options we could try :

Sniffer - if your traffic to your T1 router is predictable (ie know what ethernet interface is used) then you could sniff that interface and just sort by traffic.

Netflow - if you use Cisco routers you can use Netflow that monitors all flows thru a router and you can export the data to a netflow collector. There are several netflow collector/reporting tools on the market. NetQoS is one that I've seen good write-ups on.

B

anyraa

i tought..solarwinds toolset can help you.the "network performance features" can help you- gd luck!try it

anyraa

pmoroney

Configure Netflow on the interface then display the cache.
Cut and paste to Excel .......... check top ten ....