Viewing bandwidth usage reports for a specific site

You can view detailed bandwidth usage for a specific site. The report, by default, shows bandwidth usage by all services, from the start of the monitoring session to the current day. You can also browse through past reports by selecting the time period for which you want to view the usage report. The time period is based on the bandwidth monitoring cycle defined for the site at the time of creating the site.

To view bandwidth usage details for a specific site:

1. On the left navigation bar, click Bandwidth Usage or Usage Reports. The Usage Reports form displaying all the domains that have usage report statistics available.

2. In the Sites column, locate the site whose report you want to view, and click the underlined name of that site, for example, click store.acme.com.

The Usage Report form for that domain. The upper section of the form shows the bandwidth usage for the entire site. The lower section shows details of bandwidth usage by individual services on the domain.

About entire site bandwidth usage statistics

The columns in this section include:

• Bandwidth - A bar graph showing how much bandwidth is used by the site.

• Statistics last updated - The date (in mm/dd/yy format) on which the bandwidth usage report was last updated.

• Total used - The bandwidth (in megabytes) already used by the site for the selected month.

• Quota (Threshold) - The maximum bandwidth (in Megabytes) assigned to the site for the selected month.

• Available - The amount of megabytes still available after finding the difference between the number of bytes of bandwidth assigned to the site and the number of bytes of bandwidth already used.

About individual services bandwidth usage statistics

The columns in this section include:

• Service - The name of the service using bandwidth on the site.

• HTTP - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your HTTP server.

• HTTPS - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your HTTPS server.

• Note: The Header information for both HTTP and HTTPS is reported separately so that the HTTP and HTTPS usage information corresponds to the statistical data provided by log analyzers.

• FTP - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your FTP server.

• IMAP - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your IMAP server.

• POP3 - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your POP3 server.

• SMTP - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your SMTP server.

• SSH - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your SSH server.

• Telnet - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on your Telnet server.

• Unknown - Quantifies bandwidth consumed by traffic on custom-configured servers.

• Note: If you have configured a service distinct from any of the above-mentioned services, it is qualified as an "unknown" service.  For example, if you have configured a service, RSH, bandwidth consumed by traffic on this server will be classified as unknown.  

• All Services - Cumulative bandwidth usage statistics for all of the above-mentioned services.

• Usage - A bar graph showing how much incoming and outgoing network traffic is on the site.

• In - The number of megabytes of Used bandwidth this service used for incoming network traffic.

• Out - The number of megabytes of Used bandwidth this service used for outgoing network traffic.

• Total - The sum total number of megabytes of Used bandwidth this service used.

• % Used - The Total amount of bandwidth used by this service in comparison to other services, shown as a percentage.

Viewing past bandwidth usage reports

You can choose to view the bandwidth usage report for the site for a given time-period. The time-period is based on the bandwidth monitoring cycle defined for the site at the time of creating the site.

To view past reports, click the arrow in the View Monthly Reports list, and select the time period.