Track connections to/from a particular source/destination. Detect excessive or unexpected connection totals for a particular device or network available service.

Configure a Network Traffic Analysis conversation partners threshold:

  • Name. Used in the Threshold library and the quick select title on the Alert Center Dashboard.
  • Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
  • Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.

    Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select to have Alert Center automatically resolve items when they return to the parameters inside the threshold.

Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the out of threshold items still appears on the Alert Center Home page.

Add Condition Rules

  • a host has... Select the direction(s) of traffic to consider.
  • more than... Select a magnitude (limit) for conversation partners.
  • in the past... Select a period for the measurement.

Select Applied Hosts

  • Traffic to monitor. By default, the threshold is set to monitor traffic from all Network Traffic Analysis Sources. Select the Network Traffic Analysis source or interface from which to monitor traffic. When you select a source, traffic for all interfaces on the source is monitored. When you select an interface, only traffic for the selected interface is monitored.
    Tip: When you select a source, traffic for all interfaces on the source is monitored. When you select an interface, only traffic for the selected interface is monitored.
  • Hosts to monitor. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts. You can also select IP ranges and IP Groups.
    • All Hosts. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts

      Exclude Hosts. Select to ignore the traffic for a list of hosts you assemble here.

    • Specific Hosts. Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Hosts to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.