Live Bandwidth Monitoring

Question

Is there a way to veiw live network bandwidth usage?

i've got on my network 4 Point-To-Point t-1's coming into main site.  each site is using a cisco 2620 router with netflow enabled and at the main site i have a cisco 3640.  All Internet Traffic gets from each remote site gets passed to my main site then out via my firewall to the internet.

how can i monitor live bandwidth for each t-1 and internet bandwith live?

profzoom1 · Answer

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone have any ideas on this?

profzoom1 · Answer

I do have the Engineers toolset and I am using the bandwidth gauges that displays the info on our Orion website but I have a few issues with this.

The guages are not updates in a realtime frequency the best I can get this to do is every 3 seconds to update which makes the needle on the gauge go up and then back to 0 and then back up. Not the greatest for realtime.

Not to mention you have to have the Bandwidth Guage running on the console of the server as well where the engineers toolset is installed. When you right click on a guage in teh bandwidth monitor you can get a window to open up called the Historical statistics which is realtime graph and would be much better to have this running and autoupdating into Orion vs the guages.Is there a way to get the Historical statistics chart inot Orion and autoupdate in realtime?

My boss has asked me to find this out and if not with Solarwinds then we need to look at another product which I would personally hate to do that but I am not in charge of paying for the montioring costs or tools just making them work.

xNimrodHunterx · Answer

Is there a way with Enginneers toolset to view each workstation bandwidth usage and what is using the bandwidth?  or is there any other way of accomplishing this?