From: Rick Tyrell (rtyrell@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 11:52:29 ARST
There are some good open source tools that can track per host bandwidth. We
have used IPAudit http://ipaudit.sourceforge.net/
It will graph per user bandwidth and keep a history of the usage. This will
not give you an application specific breakdown, but will tell you who the
top users are.
We have also used NTOP for real time usage and that has worked "ok". CACTI
works great for graphing individual ports/cpu and backbone traffic.
To shape user bandwidth we recently purchased Procera NetLogic
http://www.proceranetworks.com/
Hope that helps.
-Rick
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Mike Lange <mikelange16@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> has anyone dealt with coming up a good solution for tracking bandwidth
> usage per user (or just per IP?). The LAN is running 3560's and 4500
> in the core, the traffic then routes to the ASA5520 with CSC module
> and off to the internet. What solution would you recommend to track
> bandwidth usage per user. 4500 doesn't support netflow, so that's not
> an option. ASA has some limited graphs on the firewall dashboard, but
> it's not good for this task because the top talkers like MAIL servers
> and the actual OUTSIDE hosts take up the top spots and push out any
> data about user traffic. Is there any 3rd party appliance that can do
> this? Websense? I personally believe CSC should have this capability,
> but it doesn't.
>
> Mike
>
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