Hello,
I am a network engineer trying to figure out some odd Lan sweeper behavior. I do not administer the application at our organization personally but have some questions and our Lan Sweeper admins are not 100% sure why this behavior is occurring, so I figured it would not hurt to ask here.
We use Solarwinds network monitoring and have been closely watching the traffic at all of our remote sites. As soon as a lan sweeper scan is initiated at the remote site I will see the traffic for the remote site shoot up to 100% utilized for about 5-8 minutes at a time. We have DS1's to all of our remote sites so it does not take much to saturate them. The really interesting thing about this is it's the receive traffic that is pegging and not the transmit. As far as I know lan sweeper is just scanning the remote site and sending the data back to the server, that should be transmit traffic.
So my question is, what is the server pushing out to the remote sites, or what exactly is happening where the receive is pegged and the transmit is not?
Thanks in advance for any insight into this.