Configure Network Traffic Analysis conversation partners threshold:

  • Name . Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Home page.
  • 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 WhatsUp Gold database for items that are out of the threshold limits.
  • Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold . Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.
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

Note: Sources sending sampled data are not displayed as a selection option in the Traffic to monitor list because Network Traffic Analysis cannot determine that traffic has failed on sampled data.
  • Traffic to Monitor . By default, the threshold is set to monitor traffic from all Network Traffic Analysis sources.
  • Hosts to monitor . By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.
    • Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Hosts to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.
    • Click Exclude Hosts to build an exclusion list.
Note: 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.

Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as (or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.

Tip: Avoid setting the threshold check interval to a very short time. Aggressive intervals can degrade system performance. In general, setting the threshold check interval to less than five minutes is not advised.