Really hope someone out there can help or provide us in the right direction.
We have a primary Domino server (HUB) located in the US. We have our own local Domino server here in Australia.
All our databases replicate with the HUB on a schedule. The schedule has not been changed at all by the way. We have noticed over the last month that our network usage between the two sites has gone through the roof!!
We average about 30GB worth of network traffic a month between the two sites, but this month we have almost tripled that - 84GB!
We highly suspect that this is all due to replication traffic between the two sites, as we have quite a few large databases (NSFs) ranging between 500MB to 2GB each. We need to confirm that this spike in network usage is indeed due to Domino replication traffic.
Are their any logs or reports in Domino, which can show the total amount of replication in Kilobytes or Megabytes per day (date) and also a ‘view’ of each individual database (NSF)?
I wait with anticipation, as our organisation needs to determine what the hell is causing this spike in network traffic!
Subject: HELP - Replication Traffic - Network Usage & Bandwidth
This view is really helpful, especially if you have replication logging turned up, but it can be a bit painful to wade through if you have many replication events.
You’ll also want to monitor the replication time, and, if possible, go back a couple months to an archive of your log and compare the amount of kb and the amount of time.
This kind of troubleshooting work is tedious at best, but it’s really the only way to ferret out what’s going on. At one point I built a tool that would pull out relevant lines for a particular topic, say agent manager or indexing or replication. That is helpful in reducing the time spent wading through the log, but it’s still a pain. I’m sure there are more sophisticated tools out there, either in sandbox or for purchase.
Subject: HELP - Replication Traffic - Network Usage & Bandwidth
Take a look at log.nsf - there is a view called “Replication Events”. Each of those documents has a “Bytes in” and “Bytes out” field - try creating a new view and use those values in the columns (with column totals).
Subject: HELP - Replication Traffic - Network Usage & Bandwidth
This view is really helpful, especially if you have replication logging turned up, but it can be a bit painful to wade through if you have many replication events.
You’ll also want to monitor the replication time, and, if possible, go back a couple months to an archive of your log and compare the amount of kb and the amount of time.
This kind of troubleshooting work is tedious at best, but it’s really the only way to ferret out what’s going on. At one point I built a tool that would pull out relevant lines for a particular topic, say agent manager or indexing or replication. That is helpful in reducing the time spent wading through the log, but it’s still a pain. I’m sure there are more sophisticated tools out there, either in sandbox or for purchase.
