Hi Guys
I was wondering if anyone could recommend any network traffic monitoring software. Preferably for free (or a trial). If it does what we need I don't mind paying.
SCENARIO
The company I work for has 2 sites in the UK and we have dedicated links to the internet and between sites. We have a central firewall which can show us traffic from both sites to the internet and we can report on what is being downloaded to what machine (via IP address) etc
The problem is, if we transfer something internally from Site1 to Site2 (or vice versa) We have no viability of it or what machine it is coming from.
We occasionally see our network slow down but see little traffic on the firewall which must mean there is internal traffic. This could be someone moving a large file (or groups of files) from 1 site to another or could be something else. 1 of the main causes we see are Windows Updates as we run an update server (WSUS) on Site1 and when approved, the updates are passed to PC's on site2 which is one of the main causes of our network Issues.
REQUEST
I know there are plenty of software packages out there for this kind of thing, but can anyone make any recommendations to any preferred software. I don't need nothing complicated, We just need viability of traffic between our sites, preferably giving us the IP address where the files are coming from and IP of where they are going to.
Thanks for your help guys
I was wondering if anyone could recommend any network traffic monitoring software. Preferably for free (or a trial). If it does what we need I don't mind paying.
SCENARIO
The company I work for has 2 sites in the UK and we have dedicated links to the internet and between sites. We have a central firewall which can show us traffic from both sites to the internet and we can report on what is being downloaded to what machine (via IP address) etc
The problem is, if we transfer something internally from Site1 to Site2 (or vice versa) We have no viability of it or what machine it is coming from.
We occasionally see our network slow down but see little traffic on the firewall which must mean there is internal traffic. This could be someone moving a large file (or groups of files) from 1 site to another or could be something else. 1 of the main causes we see are Windows Updates as we run an update server (WSUS) on Site1 and when approved, the updates are passed to PC's on site2 which is one of the main causes of our network Issues.
REQUEST
I know there are plenty of software packages out there for this kind of thing, but can anyone make any recommendations to any preferred software. I don't need nothing complicated, We just need viability of traffic between our sites, preferably giving us the IP address where the files are coming from and IP of where they are going to.
Thanks for your help guys
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