topic High Bandwidth consumption in Wireless

High Bandwidth consumption

Tupe_kunal — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:09:43 GMT

Hi Community,

Recently high bandwidth consumption on WAN was reported & i was provided a list of DCs & AP (MRs) that were seen downloading & uploading data. This was captured on the gateway (L3/FW) which is managed by a different vendor. I'd like to know is there a way at the AP level where i could find the destination traffic & what is consuming so much bandwidth. Any suggestions where i can start or anyone has tshoot this, any services running that could utilize BW?

Thanks!

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

aleabrahao — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:29:34 GMT

You can see the utilization on Clients page.

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

Philip D'Ath — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:59:27 GMT

Go into clients pulling a lot of traffic, then click "more details" under the pie chart.

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

Tupe_kunal — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 06:43:16 GMT

Thank you @Philip D'Ath . This helps. The snippet that you posted gives the destination IP as well.. Is it because your L3/ Gateway is a MX or am i missing something.

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:01:01 GMT

I think it depends on weather the destination is well known (and then you only get a name, like Youtube) or not.

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:03:15 GMT

You will need Traffic Analysis enabled under Network-Wide/General as well. If is it not on, it takes a while after you enable it before anything appears.

Re: High Bandwidth consumption

Tupe_kunal — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:24:41 GMT

Yes, its on basic:collect generic traffic categories. I'll change it to detailed:collect destination hostnames. Need to make these changes for each network.

Thank you @Philip D'Ath 🙂