I recently 'grew into' (read: it fell in my lap) a Network Admin role with my company. I'm pretty new to all this and I was wondering if I can get some advice on monitoring the traffic across the company's WAN.
We have a frame relay managed by our ISP and my manager wants to increase the size of the pipe to our other locations because he's been getting complaints about poor performance. But right now, we don't even know if were utilizing the bandwidth we have, so I can't tell whether or not increasing the bandwidth is going to do any good. What can I do to gather statistics on the data that passes though the WAN? I'd like to know things like: where the traffic is going, what time of day is it most congested, and so on. We're running an NT Network, so is there something that I can install between the switch and the router that will let me know these kinds of things without affecting speed?
I'm very excited about this new role so I welcome any comments, let me know if more info is necessary,
Thanks
Maometh
We have a frame relay managed by our ISP and my manager wants to increase the size of the pipe to our other locations because he's been getting complaints about poor performance. But right now, we don't even know if were utilizing the bandwidth we have, so I can't tell whether or not increasing the bandwidth is going to do any good. What can I do to gather statistics on the data that passes though the WAN? I'd like to know things like: where the traffic is going, what time of day is it most congested, and so on. We're running an NT Network, so is there something that I can install between the switch and the router that will let me know these kinds of things without affecting speed?
I'm very excited about this new role so I welcome any comments, let me know if more info is necessary,
Thanks
Maometh