About the Flow Monitor: Top Senders with More Conversation Partners report
This dashboard report displays the senders with the most conversation partners in the selected direction (Inbound, Outbound, Inbound and Outbound, or Bounce) on the selected interface. A conversation is a connection between two devices that are transmitting information to one another over a single port. Conversation partner data is useful in determining the devices on and off the network that are sending the most information to other devices and/or Web sites. Also, a device with too many conversation partners could be using unauthorized peer-to-peer applications.
By default, devices are listed by hostname, however you can configure this report to list the devices by IP address by selecting on the report configuration dialog.
- . Displays the host name of the top sender with the most conversation partners.
- . Displays the number of conversation partners with which the sender has connected.
- . Displays the percentage ranking of the item within the top n items of the category.
: You can hover over a host name to display popup information about the host name's IP address. If you right-click on the host-name, a filter will be created that uses the host as the filter criteria and the Interface Details dashboard will reload with this filter applied.
For more information
About interface traffic directions
: For illustration purposes, the descriptions and diagrams in the table below assume that traffic is passing from an internal interface to an external interface or vice versa. In reality, traffic may pass from an internal interface to another internal interface, an external interface to another external interface, or traffic may be routed out the same interface it enters.
Interface
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Traffic Direction
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Report displays...
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Internal interface
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Inbound
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The devices on the LAN segment connected to the selected internal interface sending information to the most conversation partners/outside devices.
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Outbound
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The outside devices sending information to the most conversation partners/devices on the LAN segment connected to the selected internal interface.
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Inbound/
Outbound
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The devices sending the most information across the selected internal interface.
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External interface
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Inbound
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The devices connected to the selected external interface sending information to the most conversation partners/ devices on an internal LAN segment.
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Outbound
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The devices on internal LAN segments sending information to the most conversation partners/devices connected to the selected external interface.
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Inbound/
Outbound
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The devices sending the most information across the selected external interface.
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Linking to Flow Monitor reports from WhatsUp Gold
There are several ways to connect to the Flow Monitor Interface Details report from this WhatsUp Gold dashboard report.
- Click the interface name at the top of the dashboard report to view the Flow Monitor Interface Details report for the selected interface.
- Click an entry in the far left column of the dashboard report to view the Interface Details report for the selected interface. The entry that you click will be applied to the report as a keyword filter.
Configuring this dashboard report
- In the title bar of the dashboard report pane, select . The Configure Report dialog appears.
- Enter or select the appropriate information:
- . Enter a title for the dashboard report. This name appears in the title bar of the dashboard report's pane.
- . Select the timeframe for the traffic about which you want to see a report. You can select either the last 5, 15, or 30 minutes, or the last hour.
- . Select the router interface that is used by the traffic you want to see in this report.
- . Select a direction for which the report will display data for the selected interface (In, Out, or Both).
- . Enter the number of individual items within the category you want to display in the dashboard report. The report displays the top values based on the sort option selected in . All other items in the category are included in the 'Others' category, and are displayed when is selected.
- . Select the display type you want to use in the dashboard report. Choose Chart and data, Data only, or Chart only.
- . Select the type of chart you would like the report to display. Choose Pie chart, Pie chart (3D), Pie chart (transparent 3D), Bar chart, Bar chart (horizontal), Bar chart (transparent 3D), or Stacked Time graph.
- . Specify how wide, in pixels, the graph or chart should appear.
- . Specify how tall, in pixels, the graph or chart should appear.
- Click to save changes.