Bandwidth Splitter - Continue

Quick Start Due to the fact that the Bandwidth Splitter control tools integrate into the ISA Management console and the application management principles are alike, you can hardly have any problems with getting started with it. Warning. If the ISA Management console has stayed open during installation of Bandwidth Splitter, it is necessary to close and reopen it after installation to be able to access the new Bandwidth Splitter section. After Bandwidth Splitter has been installed, the ISA Management console looks as follows: ISA Management console with Bandwidth Splitter installed (click to enlarge figure) A new section, Bandwidth Splitter, has appeared in the console tree. This section includes the following subsections: Shaping Rules: contains rules defining who is allowed to access what, when and at what speed (it is possible to allocate different bandwidths depending on the time (Schedules) and the requested address (Destinations)). Quota Rules: contains rules defining who is allocated how much traffic (per day, week or month or without any time limits). Quota Counters: contains a list of users or hosts subject to traffic amount limitations (set up in Quota Rules), and allows finding out how much unused quota traffic is left. Each new record is added the first time a user accesses Internet. Monitoring: allows executing their connections and seeing Initially Bandwidth Splitter configuration means that all bandwidth and traffic amount yet.

real-time control of all users that use Internet and how much bandwidth they use. contains no shaping or quota rules. By default such a users and computers are not restricted by both yet. And you won't see anything in monitoring section

Note. Bandwidth Splitter does not make it unnecessary to set up the basic options of ISA Server. Bandwidth Splitter only adds own rules to the set of already available in ISA Server. Therefore it is necessary to make sure that ISA Server is correctly configured before testing the new features provided by Bandwidth Splitter. Next you can set up Shaping Rules and Quota Rules at own discretion. For example, create a new shaping rule. Give it any name you wish. At Applies To page specify users or IP address sets, to which this rule will apply. Warning. Bear in mind your license restrictions, and don't specify user groups or IP address sets that include more clients than your license allows. Warning. To make work Bandwidth Splitter rules that have users or user groups (not IP address sets) in the Applies To field, those users should be authenticated. For this purpose they should be allowed in generic Firewall Policy Rules as authenticated users, that is at Users tab you should specify something

other than All Users, for example All Authenticated Users. At Destinations page, select External network. At Schedule page, select Always. At Shaping page, select Shape total traffic (incoming+outgoing) and enter the maximum speed in kilobits per second into the field Total (kbits/s), for example 64. Leave other fields with default values. Click Finish to complete wizard. Creating Shaping Rule (click to enlarge figure) Bandwidth Splitter stores its configuration in ISA Server storage. So when you make changes, you should apply them (or discard) when finished. You can do it using standard Apply and Discard buttons. When Bandwidth Splitter sections are selected those standard buttons are invisible, but you may use analogous buttons at toolbar. They look like this: . Click Apply Changes button. Bandwidth Splitter filters will pick up the changes, and if some user was downloading a big file at an unlimited speed, and shaping rule you have just created applies to this user, the situation will change now and the speed for this user will be limited to 64 kbits/s. If the user has several open connections, this speed will be distributed evenly for all active connections. The effect of applying of Shaping Rules (click to enlarge figure) Note. In Bandwidth Splitter monitoring you will see only connections to which some Shaping and/or Quota rule is applied. If neither Shaping nor Quota rule is found for some connections, they won't be filtered by Bandwidth Splitter, and you won't see them in monitoring. Such is the introduction to Bandwidth Splitter. Read the rest of sections to learn more about the features and the use of Bandwidth Splitter. See also Overview Bandwidth Splitter Administration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------© BNTC Software. All rights reserved.