Network utilization by IP address

[Les Lovesee]

I've seen others post non-HP questions here so I thought give it a try.

I support a fairly large WAN (100 sites / 4000+ users). All Internet traffic goes thru a firewall at the main site.

I'm looking for a product that will count packets and allow me to report top bandwidth users for a particular time period, both inside and outside. That is, who are the top inside users, and what are the top outside sites that people go to.

Any ideas? A normal packet sniffer that trends based on MAC addresses won't do the job.

TIA!

[Jerome Henry]

It's not HP, but doesn't matter !
Read this tips, and tell me if it's useful to your aim :
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x040b595fae8bd711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

J

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
i know the name of a product

Packet Shaper

I think it might be helpfull.

Massimo

[Klaus Moeller]

Hi!

Does the firewall supports SNMP (e.g. Cisco PIX) or has logfile(s) with some useful informations?
Then you can use HP OV Performance Insight which is a powerful reporting engine. You can collect, calculate and report any SNMP, RMON, RMON2 and ASCII-based data like csv files, log files etc. There a ReportPacks delivered with the product which might address your needs or you can develope your own solution. You can find more informations here:

http://openview.hp.com/sso/getdoc?doc=/products/performance_insight_networks/pb/ovpi_pb_nov02.pdf

or next week at our relaunched web site:

http://www.menatnet.de

K