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Using Group Aliases Effectively
EARLY FIELD TRIAL Chapter 10
252 Sniffer Adaptive Application Analyzer
Group aliases provide you with a powerful tool for viewing statistics. For
example, you can:
Create a Group alias for all IP addresses in a particular department,
allowing you to view aggregated traffic statistics for those hosts.
Create a Group alias for a particular set of VLANs, allowing you to
view aggregated statistics for those VLANs.
Create a Group alias for a particular set of TCP or UDP ports. This
is particularly helpful when you want to track the performance of
an application running over dynamically allocated ports within a
specific range. You can create a GROUP_TCP Port alias (or
GROUP_UDP Port, depending on the application) and see
aggregated statistics for the application. See Group Alias Example
– Adding a Proprietary Financial Application on page 252 for an
example of this.
Group Alias Example – Adding a Proprietary Financial
Application
Suppose your network runs a proprietary financial application called
MoneyMan. This application runs over a range of dynamically allocated
TCP ports between 5400-5405. You could add a Group alias for this
application as follows:
1 Display the Quick Select > Options > Aliases tab.
2 Set the Type dropdown to GROUP_TCP Port.
3 Enter moneyman in the Alias field
4 Add the first port by entering 5400 in the Address field and
clicking Add.
5 Add ports 5401 - 5405 by repeating the previous step for each port
in sequence. The moneyman alias will remain in the Alias field so
you do not have to re-enter it each time.
6 When you have finished entering ports, the Aliases tab will appear
with moneyman entries like those shown below.
Note that there is not a single entry for a moneyman group.
Instead, you can tell that the ports belong to the same group alias
by noting that the entry in the Alias column is the same for ports
5400 - 5405.