Ciscoworks to determine high bandwith on switchport

[wilson_1234_2]

Can you monitor switchports and the utilization of the port in Ciscoworks?

We have a network congestion problem originating from a switch with a couple of hundred ports on it.

Can you monitor the ports and show % utilization on each port to determin the culprit?

[yjdabear]

Not currently possible to monitor for bw util unattended with CW LMS. But there's an add-on coming for LMS 3.0, though it's not clear it's "free" or for-a-fee:

http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Network%20Infrastructure&topic=Network%20Management&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.1dde0317/0#selected_message

For this particular purpose, watching bw util (regardless of by % or bits) is usually just the first step. After identifying the offending port(s), you'd probably want to find out what traffic on the port(s) was the culprit. There're a variety of approaches to this, from sniffer to NetFlow/RMON2 probes/NAM.

[jreekers]

This is available in LMS 3.0. See table 2 of the below link, and the other LMS 3.0 documentation for details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps563/products_data_sheet0900aecd8063af4d.html

HTH,

-J