Network Traffic Monitoring

shaft01 · 01-13-2005, 08:38 PM

Hi,

My network at work is running slow at work. I've been reading articles on network monitoring, and have been monitoring the server to try and find the bottleneck and I have discovered that the server is sending out masses of data which means the network is running on average at about 70% capacity. I have monitored the processor, disk, and memory and they a running well within there capability.

I figured this was probably the problem as we run a big access database on the workstations with the back end stored on the server and this is the application that is running slow. So I set up a counter on the MS ACCESS process to measure the number of bytes it was reading and writing and it is not producing any near that amount of data.

Is there any way that a can monitor what spefic process or application is producing this data, that is being sent over the network to find the root of the problem?

I'm this networking lark so you will have to forgive some of my terminology.

S_Doherty · 01-13-2005, 10:55 PM

Hi, not sure if this will help, but you could try running ethereal (a free network traffic monitoring tool)from a lan segment that is slow....is there any sort of streaming services running because they 'can' consume large amounts of cpu overhead, and too much broadcast traffic

01-13-2005, 08:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
shaft01 New Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1	Network Traffic Monitoring Hi, My network at work is running slow at work. I've been reading articles on network monitoring, and have been monitoring the server to try and find the bottleneck and I have discovered that the server is sending out masses of data which means the network is running on average at about 70% capacity. I have monitored the processor, disk, and memory and they a running well within there capability. I figured this was probably the problem as we run a big access database on the workstations with the back end stored on the server and this is the application that is running slow. So I set up a counter on the MS ACCESS process to measure the number of bytes it was reading and writing and it is not producing any near that amount of data. Is there any way that a can monitor what spefic process or application is producing this data, that is being sent over the network to find the root of the problem? I'm this networking lark so you will have to forgive some of my terminology.

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01-13-2005, 10:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
S_Doherty Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 108	Hi, not sure if this will help, but you could try running ethereal (a free network traffic monitoring tool)from a lan segment that is slow....is there any sort of streaming services running because they 'can' consume large amounts of cpu overhead, and too much broadcast traffic