PS2007 and WSS2007 Bandwidth Monitoring and Analysis

[ggeorgop]

We have Project Server 2007 environment that is composed of the following:
Server A which hosts the web front end and WSS services
Server B which hosts the Project Appliance
Server C which is a SQL cluster and hosts the databases

Our network group needs to do an assessment of how much traffic is generated
between the client and server(s) in the environment in an effort to do an
estimate for how much traffic we can anticipate we will see on our WAN links.

I'd suspect that Server A, being the web front end will juggle and respond
to all of the requests (client) be them PWA (http) or Project Pro 2007 client
requests.

Aside from the obvious port 80 for the http requests, does anyone know:
1. what other ports are utilized by this environment? and
2. can the PWA traffic be isolated (for monitoring/assessment) from the
project pro client traffic?

I've run IPProbe against both machines and have identified the following
open ports:

Server A (scanned as high as port 5000)
7 echo
9 discard sink null
13 daytime
17 qotd Quote of the Day
19 chargen Character Generator
80 http www-http World Wide Web HTTP
81 hosts2-ns HOSTS2 Name Server
135 loc-srv Location Service
139 netbios-ssn NETBIOS Session Service
445 microsoft-ds
1061 Unknown
1809 Unknown
2301 Unknown
2381 Unknown
3052 Unknown
3389 Unknown

Server B (scanned as high as port 5000)
7 echo
9 discard sink null
13 daytime
17 qotd Quote of the Day
19 chargen Character Generator
135 loc-srv Location Service
139 netbios-ssn NETBIOS Session Service
445 microsoft-ds
1087 Unknown
2301 Unknown
2381 Unknown
3052 Unknown
3389 Unknown

 

[Brian Smith \(MSFT\)]

If you are only interested in traffic from the client to the server(s) then
for virtually all PWA and Project Professional traffic is on port 80. For
Data Analysis views the client will connect directly to your Analysis
Services server on whatever port that is using - so if you use this feature
you may need to monitor for this traffic too.

In terms of identifying the traffic from Pro or PWA I would suggest using
different client machines - then it would be as simple as filtering on the
IP address.

 

[ggeorgop]

Brian,

Thanks for that.

George
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ggeorgop

If you are only interested in traffic from the client to the server(s) then
for virtually all PWA and Project Professional traffic is on port 80. For
Data Analysis views the client will connect directly to your Analysis
Services server on whatever port that is using - so if you use this feature
you may need to monitor for this traffic too.

In terms of identifying the traffic from Pro or PWA I would suggest using
different client machines - then it would be as simple as filtering on the
IP address.