Any way to monitor bandwidth usage per user on a network? 1

[texnut]

Hello all - I'm not entirely certain if this is the correct forum but I figured i'd give it a shot since the PIX sits at an ideal point in the network to determine this kind of information.

Is there anyway to determine who might be the bandwidth "hog" on a local network, either by using the pix or some other means?

Perhaps by analyzing syslog file?

Thanks all.

 

[horus42]

One way you can do this is by probably getting people to login by using AAA and then enable accounting which will give you total bandwidth utilised. Another option is to SPAN a port and then use something like NTOP to see breakdown of the traffic including per IP utilisation

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_61/config/overvw.htm#xtocid7

Hope that helps.

 

[texnut]

Actually - you've helped me immensely!

I just finished setting up ntop-xtra for windows, configured my catalyst for port spanning and bingo - it delivers the exact data I was looking for and more!

Many thanks!