To ease your work, SolarWinds Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor also stores your credentials for each of the supported SNMP versions. Such a tool comes in handy for troubleshooting performance-related issues, and maintaining a healthy load balancing configuration. It keeps an eye on both the incoming and outgoing network traffic, collecting data and storing it all. SolarWinds Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor displays the bandwidth usage in real-time, in a chart that updates itself periodically (the time period depends on the user-defined polling interval). Shows the time evolution of the bandwidth usage in a realtime chart There are additional settings you can tamper with, namely the amount of history data the application should remember, and the warning and critical threshold levels. In this new window, you have to choose one or more interfaces to monitor before proceeding. If the credentials are valid, the application proceeds to show you a list of all the SNMP-compatible interfaces that can be monitored, be it a router, a firewall, a switch or a server. Define bandwidth threshold levels to get useful notificationsĬreating a new monitoring session requires you to provide information about the target device, namely its IP address or the hostname, the SNMP version it uses, and the community string. As its name suggests, its purpose is to poll bandwidth usage and help you manage it in an efficient manner. If bandwidth usage is a problem you are concerned about, an application such as SolarWinds Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor can be of great help.

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