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Asked: 2015-07-13 22:21:45 +0800 CST

How do I monitor network usage on a Windows server?

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I would like to monitor server bandwidth usage.

The server OS is Windows Server 2012

This should give me as result the amount of data over a certain period of time and separate it by protocol and by remote IP.

Protocol to discriminate would be HTTP, FTP and RDP at least.

How can I do this?

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    I would recommend Nagios. It has a very intuitive interface and still meets any Enterprise needs. You can run it on upto 7 nodes for free.

    https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/

    Personally i haven't used it before but Microsoft has a network monitor too. I do not know if the reporting functionality meets your needs: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

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  2. I've found this on Spiceworks when I've had a similar need: http://www.paessler.com/prtg

    It's free up to 100 sensors which is more than sufficient for monitoring a single server. It takes a bit of reading but works well.

    You can mess around with the Resource Monitor as well but it has a bigger performance impact.

    If you're on a corporate network your network guys can probably just give you that data though.

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