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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Rationale And Methods Used To Monitor Bandwidth Usage

By Brenda Burns


The purpose of data usage monitoring is to check and understand on how much bandwidth one has been using, to access how the tally of data usage has been running and access if there is something or somebody who has been using a lot of bandwidth without ones understanding. In relation, the bandwidth usage is known as the data transfer from in and out of device as monitored by relevant tools. This process used to monitor bandwidth usage is measured by use of bits over a given duration of time which is generally one second.

The rationale behind this monitoring is to access the level of data use per the given time period and also to inhibit other users from accessing the internet connection from your device as a result of terribly increasing number of hackers. It is similarly useful to those accessing internet and pay per the usage as they are capable to evaluate their level of access in correspondence to time and charges.

The most prevalent tools in this case are the NetWorx and the Net Limiter. These two tools works only in windows display under the task bar whereby the NetWorx keeps on check the level of bandwidth used in all devices and sums the data use over a given time period depending on the users and administrators preference. The Net Limiter tracks down the level of use by every application in the device; it also acts to limit the incoming and outgoing use by some applications so as that they do not impair other applications functioning ability.

There has been establishment of tools and methods to monitor the level of internet access in the computer networks. They help one to identify the source and the application of internet use. That is, shows the sources and applications with their respective data use over a given time period. Some of these known tools are discussed below.

The iStat Pro and the Ifstat tools of data supervision plus reporting where the iStat aids in maintaining the stability of entire system and at the same time scrutinizing the use of data, enabling the total tally of usage together with data stores usage information since the previous reboot of the system. The Ifs tat assist in data building from the bandwidth as records all the network interfaces of the system.

The Manage Engine and tbbMeter monitors are similarly useful in detecting the use of data. The Manage Engine encompasses on an estimate of sixteen network tools that allows two interface supported by the device to be monitored. It operates on agent less model, provides alert services and is capable of exporting information to devices format. The tbbMeter accounts for figures to aid chronological view of bandwidth information and is specifically meant for internet usage monitoring. It accounts for performance and impulses an alert when the use is approaching its limit.

The NetWorx tool is a design wizard that binds the user to certain preferred connections in a computer accessed through icons tray and uses the desired platforms such as graphs to display the level of data usage. As a very insubstantial and portable tool or as installed on windows, has a notifier program to alert the user when the network activity exceeds certain desired level and the use reports can be accessed through file formats such as comma-separated values, rich text format and the hyper-text markup.

Therefore, these tools offers the outstanding features that comes along with visual presentation and orientation of the amount of data going in and out of the device and useful wise to help know the source of data use within your device and network.




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