How do i monitor my bandwidth usage on my LAN and Frame Relay network?

[Yogeeraj]

Hello everybody,

Can anyone help?

I have to benchmark throughput and bandwidth usage of my new web application that will be released in the month to come.

I cannot risk my network getting saturated so much that my end-users cannot work.

I need to know if i will have to upgrade my network (frame relay) bandwidth.

I am currently using telnet connections over the LAN/WAN. How do i perform my analysis?

Please guide me thru. I want to get the results right first time.

thank you very much for a reply

Kind regards
Yogeeraj

[John Bolene]

On the machine, you can run glance and get network traffic stats.

On the network, you can run NNM network node manager, part of ITO or whatever it is called now.

Both of these are products that cost money, but you can install the 60 day trial of glance for free.

[Volker Borowski]

Yogeeraj,

beside the need to measure the network, I guess you do not have any idea about application load yet ?!?!?!?

John told you the tools how to monitor.
But you need to simulate your application acting like serving some 50 users ???

There are tools for this as well. You find broad discussions for this at
http://www.qaforums.com/

One thing I used recently was LoadRunner, which had a trial version, which could simulate 10 concurrent sessions.

Hope this helps
Volker

[Volker Borowski]

May be this link is more specific:
http://www.qaforums.com/Forum18/HTML/000008.html

V.