From: Rick Tyrell (rtyrell@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 11:56:05 ARST
I forgot to mention that there are some CACTI templates people have created
that can grab data from NBAR that graph SMTP, WWW etc.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Rick Tyrell <rtyrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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