need assistnce on creating a report i was just asked to create. what i'm looking for is how to generate a daily report showing the peak or average traffic rates or both from one server to another server. has anyone created this before?
This type of thing - showing the "conversation" between two devices - is precisely what NetFlow is designed to show.
With NPM alone it would be (IMHO) impossible, since all you are getting is bandwidth information, not the destination of each packet.
Unless you had an interface that was dedicated to talking to the other server (and vice versa) I am not sure how you would get this.
Even with the new routing information in the NPM 10.5 beta, I'm not sure if you could achieve this.
Hope that helps point you in the right direction.
well i do have he netflow application installed. still possible?
Absolutely. As long as the router that is "in between" those two devices is exporting NetFlow data to your collector (ie: the Solarwinds NTA box) you should be able to create a report showing the conversation from serverA to serverB.
I don't have a handy copy of NTA right now so I can't get you specific details, but a quick call to Solarwinds support should help walk you through it.
thanks.
