Network Monitoring Tools?

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Tavish Muldoon

Hello,

I have a small webserver on a Windows 2000 SP3 machine.

Is there anyway to monitor the traffic coming through in real time -
see files being uploaded and downloaded, IP address of user, amount of
data transfered, time and speed?

Anything built in?

Or any 3rd party tool anyone has used that has been impressive for
this kind of thing?

Thanks,

Tmuld.
 
Tavish Muldoon said:
Is there anyway to monitor the traffic coming through in real time -
see files being uploaded and downloaded, IP address of user, amount of
data transfered, time and speed?
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Only on Star Trek.

HTTP is "stateless". There is no such thing as a "constant connection" so
there isn't anything to monitor. The "connection" only lasts for the couple
seconds it takes to load the page then it ends. The Sessions in IIS are
designed to automatically last 20 minutes from what last "request" from the
user because there is no way to know if the user is still looking at the
site or not. As long as the user clicks on something at least once every 20
minutes or less the Session stays alive,...and it will remain alive for 20
minutes after the request even if the user left the site immediately after
the request.

Unless your users have to log into the site and you design a way within the
site to keep track of them, there no way to "distinguish" and user. That is
why IIS uses Sessions as described above. You can also use NTFP permissions
and the users will have to authenticate but even that is subjected to the
statelessness of the connection.

Performance Monitor can give you some information, but some of it is simply
a "guess" caused by the stateless nature of the HTTP Standard.
 
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