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Monitoring Multicast traffic

Hello !

I have a L3 switch and I would like to monitor multicast streams that are comming to port "26". I would like to see a graph for each multicast address and not only the total multicast traffic graph. Im using evaluation version of Solarwinds Engineer's Edition 7. I cant find a proper tool in this version for this kind of monitoring. Please let me know if you know the answer or which software do you suggest for monitoring multicast traffic.

Tx for your answers,
Klemen

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pgpf

I may be wrong, but to see each multicast conversation you would need a sniffer, not a statistics grapher. The switch will only maintains counters for such packets. Solarwinds reports and graphs on those counters. To see the combined counters, and more importantly to have a baseline so you know whats normal, and then what is abnormal for your network: Use the SNMP realtime grapher to graph the stat(s) you want to see. The Real-Time Interface Monitor also has a dropdown that will show broadcast/multicast on the interfaces of your device. Right-click the stat you want to graph and presto, the graph starts running.

lavoied

For cisco, this counter is available, like broadcast.
So why not adding this counters in orion?

example :

GigabitEthernet1/6 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is C6k 1000Mb 802.3, address is 000f.f780.9439 (bia 000
Description: TC7-PARI
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is SX
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is on
Clock mode is auto
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 00:00:05, output never, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output d
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 442000 bits/sec, 284 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 690000 bits/sec, 301 packets/sec
9812375 packets input, 4610155633 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 40788 broadcasts (30984 multicast)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
11311997 packets output, 4643061207 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out