Configure Sites

You may have sites in your network that do not have a local PacketShaper. ReportCenter lets you configure site reporting so that you can use a small number of PacketShapers, or even just one PacketShaper, to identify and report on traffic to your various remote sites — as if each location had a PacketShaper installed. To use Site Reporting you must create a traffic class in the PacketShaper to catch the traffic to each site, and you must also use Define Site Names in the ReportCenter Administrator Console application to add the sites to ReportCenter.

Example

For this example, assume an international network with four locations managing traffic that uses TCP. One location, in London, houses all of the main servers providing application services. Remote locations each have a NAT firewall that causes all traffic from that site to have the same source IP address. The remote offices are in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Follow these steps to enable Site Reports for each city.

With the ReportCenter Administrator Console program, select Define > Site Names.
Use the Add button to create three new sites named Hong_Kong, Sydney and Tokyo.
Click OK to close the Site Names dialog.
In the PacketShaper create three new traffic classes, to capture the traffic to each remote location. Name one Hong_Kong, one Sydney and one Tokyo. In the configuration of each new traffic class use the IP address of a router, NAT, or firewall at the remote site to identify the traffic to that site. These new traffic classes should be near the top of the traffic tree in the PacketShaper. For help with creating traffic classes in a PacketShaper use PacketGuide for PacketWise by clicking the packetguide tab in the web interface of a PacketShaper.
Note: It is essential that the names of the traffic classes at least partially match the names of the Sites you define in ReportCenter.

Allow 24 hours for the new traffic classes to appear in ReportCenter.

ReportCenter automatically matches the newly discovered traffic classes to the Site names you defined.

Site Reports

The following new reports will be available once you configure Site Reporting and data is pushed to the ReportCenter Server:


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