Bandwidth utilization

Monitor description

Monitors bandwidth utilization of a network interface. It can be configured with or without threshold settings. This monitor uses SNMP if the system type of the object is set to anything else than Windows. If the system type is set to a Windows type, it uses performance counters to acquire the data.

Note: The system hosting the Network Monitor server must have the Windows SNMP Service running to use SNMP monitoring. Any community specified by Network Monitor for monitoring must also be specified by the SNMP Service on the host machine. See Installation Checklist.

• System type: All
• Category: Performance

Bandwidth utilization monitor property page

Monitor specific properties

• Interface - Select the interface to monitor.
• Interface speed - Optional parameter to manually set the interface speed. This can be useful if you are monitoring a NIC that is connected to a slower connection such as a ADSL line. The speed is always entered in Kbps.
• Unit - Unit to record and display bandwidth utilization data in. This cannot be changed once the monitor has been created.
• Threshold - The upper threshold in the selected unit.