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Hello ITers, I recently got a report submitted by my colleague on the spice works network monitoring tool.

The thresholds are fine on the switch and routers as shown on the monitoring tool.

He points out that the spice works network monitoring tool is using up network resource ( 100GB sent/receive in 24 hours). However he got his details from a fortinet firewall and I am wondering how much data is too much data within the Lan with a capicity of 100mbps Ethernet switch and 10 servers being monitored.

Thanks

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That seems way too high to me. I’ve always noticed that the numbers on the fortigate reports, unless you are using a fortianalyzer or something like that, are not very reliable. Could you maybe have downloaded anything to the server during the time he was monitoring? If it really is 100 gb in a day, I would dig deeper and see exactly what it is talking to.

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The service on the firewall shows remote procedure call from the server that has the monitoring tool talking to all servers being monitored and spice works is the only application on it . I changed to another server (VM) and same thing firewall, picked it as highest bandwidth usage. The firewall resides in layer 2.

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Can you stop Spiceworks for a day to compare? Bit brutal but It would make sense as it is quite big.

Only Spiceworks installation, not the whole server.

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Okay I would try that.

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So i did and Still having the same issues even after trying to turn down some alerts and email notifications