May 15, 2000
Make Your Point With Cumulative Time Stamps
If you have to provide an explanation of network throughput to management, you many not want to explain specifics of a file transfer using the hex view of a protocol analyzer. In most cases, management just wants to understand the efficiency of the network in 'real world' terms.
Although it's not usually the default setting, most analyzers can show the total elapsed time for a process as a cumulative value. After filtering a trace to show a single transaction, the cumulative time-stamp can show that a process is taking seconds or minutes to complete. After making your point in real-world terms, you can narrow your focus to an inefficient process or 'chatty' application.
Posted by james_messer at May 15, 2000 11:36 PM
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