Hi,
Is it possible to build a filter group on NTA to perform IP address group to IP address group graph?
Regards,
Z.
I have to disappoint you and say no, this is not possible (yet).
thanks
OK thanks for the quick response.... I hope yet isn't too far away
To help us prioritize, can you elaborate a little more on the use-case for this requirement? What data points are you hoping visualize in the graph?
For internal folks, this is being tracked as #3032
Chris,
No problem I appreciate your help with this. We have a small WAN over MPLS so we would like to be able to do site to site usage statisics especially when we have 1000's of new users at a site creating WAN traffic on top of what we already have. This will help with capacity planning, QoS, local servers, or other solutions.
Using IP groups in NTA was a start but using the filter I could do an IP group to specific IP address but not another IP group. Also, being able to group IP groups into a site would be useful too. We don't have contiguous ranges at each site so we would have multiple IP groups per site and if we could then group them together to form a site group that would be perfect. There maybe other ways to do this but we get our NTA stats from the Riverbeds at each site.
If there is a better way of doing this please let me know.
Thanks,
Good news here. We're working on enhanced IP groups as we speak. You'll be able to enter an IP address, IP address range, or a combination of IPs and IP address ranges (similar to how you can do the same for ports when defining applications).
We've got some mockups and I'd like to have a brief call with you to walk through what we're thinking if you're amenable.
I am happy to help where I can. I am in the UK so there is the time difference to work on there. Here is an example of what we would like to be able to do withNTA IP groups:
IP Group Network-A-1Network-A-2Network-A-3
Network-B-1Network-B-2Network-B-3Network-B-4
Network-C-1Network-C-2Network-C-3
Then group those into Site groups:
SiteA - Network-A-1, Network-A-2, Network-A-3SiteB - Network-B-1, Network-B-2, Network-B-3, Network-B-4SiteC - Network-C-1, Network-C-2, Network-C-3
And then be able to run traffic profiles of site 2 site traffic:
SiteA and SiteBSiteB and SiteCSiteC and SiteA
As we have an MPLS network and getting our NTA data from Riverbeds it's a lot of work to filter out site to site traffic.
Hope that makes sense.
This makes a lot of sense. You'll be able to create IP address groups that represent sites in the way you described above. Site to Site traffic would have be based on a particular application.
For example, once you've defined your IP address groups, with the enhancements we're working on you'll be able to define an application using the following attributes:
That sounds perfect - look forward to trying it out when it's available. Thanks for all your help with this request.
This is my first real experience with Orion and Solarwinds and I have to say it's all very positive.
Glad to hear that! I'll send you an email today so we can setup some time to run through a preview demo of what we're working on.
Will the current limitation on overlapping address groups be lifted as part of this feature? I am also very interested in being able to do this, but I need to be able to see stuff like:
WAN Site 1 <-> WAN Site 2
All WAN Sites <-> Headquarters
Etc.
Right now you can't define overlapping address groups.
You can define overlapping groups, but not nested as I know, right?
Gotcha--I want to be able to do nested groups.
I'm discussing with dev to see if there are any reasons not to allow this, so stay tuned. Thanks for the request - the use-case makes a lot of sense.
That demo was great having the ability to nest the IP Groups and report on group to group will be exactly what we need. Appreciate your help with tht.
No problem. We appreciate the time and feedback!
Hey .. This is something we just talked about this morning. Being able to filter out or see traffic between two locations We are in the midst for a WAN Optimization evaluation and are trying to get a handle on overall traffic compared to optimized traffic between two sites while both sites receive traffic from multiple other locations. ie. traffic between headquarters and our disaster recovery location. This is in an attempt to see what impact the optimization devices are having on the overall traffic.
For example iSCSI traffic was say 1.5G unoptimized and say 523Mb optimized. We had to drill down several pages to get the numbers and filter out other locations and devices following just the iSCSI port. The question was then raised how much out of the total traffic between these two locations was iSCSI? How much other traffic was there between these two sutes so that we can see not just iSCSI traffic but ALL traffic and look at the unoptimized vs optimized numbers. Not that bad when looking at specific ports one at a time but when looking at total overall traffic gets a bit tough.
I was going to open a ticket with tech support when I ran across this little item.
Brent
Brent, thanks for the post. If you're interested in a preview demo of what we're working on in this area, please send me a private message.
