Where? How? SMART TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION configuration

lchance

In yesterday's NTA webcast there was discussion about Smart Traffic configuration in NTA.

Where do I get those steps along with the file name mentioned?

Thanks.

chris.lapoint

Smart Traffic Optimization:  We've found based on several packet captures that 95% of the traffic volume may be represented in a little as 4% of flows.   This means if your primary use-case for traffic analysis is to get visibility into the Top talkers, you're storing a lot of unnecessary data in your database (impacting DB size and resource/report loading time).  You can enable smart traffic optimization and set it to 95%, which means that only those flows that represent 95% of total traffic volume on your network will be stored.

Here are the steps as described in the webcast:

1. Find file NetFlowService.exe.config by default located at “C:\Program Files\Solarwinds\Orion\NetFlowTrafficAnalysis\” and make backup copy of it

2.Open this file in notepad

3. Find the following line in the file and change options as specified below:

<pduLimiter enabled="true" allowance="5" restrictionStep="5" globalRestriction="1" globalMinFlows="0" dataPercentageRestriction="95"/>

4. Save this file

5. Restart NTA service