Introduction to Real Time Monitoring

This section of the help deals with real-time reporting. The real time monitors display information related to the traffic that has passed through your monitored links during the previous 10 seconds. There are several views into understanding the network traffic in real time. These include traffic by applications, by hosts (and users), by conversations, and by reduction per application. Typically, conversations in real time are the most valuable view, as each conversation is shown separately rather than collapsing across an application or host. Also the conversation view allows you to filter the view by IP address or subnet.

When investigating a current issue, the real time monitors allow you to answer questions like:

• My link is congested; which conversations, applications, or hosts may be contributing to the congestion?
• I know I have an issue with a particular host or subnet; what traffic is that host handling?

See the following topics for more information: