Address Groups

Address groups are used to collect statistical data for groups of addresses instead of single ones (e.g. traffic per department). They are most useful in the statistics views (Statistics View, Load over Time Statistics View) and for reports. This will also reduce the number of different entries in the statistics views. In addition, the Packet List View will display address group information when MAC Grp. or Layer 3 Grp. columns are added via the Packet List Columns Settings page of the Settings dialog.

Use the Address Group Settings page to manage and create new address groups. To add addresses to an address group, open any Address Filter page in the Settings dialog, select all addresses that you want to assign to a group, and select the group with the group combo box below the address list.

If an address is not assigned to a group, the group combo box will display '<no_group>'. These addresses will be displayed with their own names in the address group statistics and columns.

You can use address groups to create department based statistics, to group sub-domains under their main domain name, or to group different IP addresses of a single domain that is hosted by multiple web-servers for load balancing.