ServiceNow Bandwidth per User
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‎05-23-2013 01:35 PM
Hi everyone,
This week one of our customers in which we are implementing ServiceNow asked me how much network bandwidth does a service now user consumes in average.
Do ServiceNow have this statistic?
Thanks and regards,
Felipe
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‎05-29-2013 01:51 PM
If this is not available, could you please share ideas on how to raise this data?
I am willing to share the results for the community.
Thanks all,
Best regards,
Felipe
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‎03-10-2014 02:19 PM
Hello Felipe.
I have the same question, did you receive any ideas? Thanks.
Gaby Flores
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‎03-10-2014 04:42 PM
I don't have an answer offhand. It is dependent on a lot of things. Are you talking about an ESS user, ITIL user, or an integration?
An ESS user is going to have minimal interaction with the website and only use it when they need to read/open a ticket. These are going to be the majority of the users in SN but probably not constitute the majority of the platform usage or bandwidth.
An ITIL or admin user is going to spend a lot more time within the instance. They will probably constitute the majority of the platform usage just based on how they need to interact with the platform to do their jobs.
For the ITIl or ESS users, you could probably just run a packet capture over an allotted period of time and get a pretty good estimate of the bandwidth used.
When you get to integrations, that is where it can get more tricky to count.
* Do you have scheduled imports from a third party application coming in? Is it a batch job or is it real-time web services?
* Do you utilize the CTI integration, where all your calls get information passed into Service-now tickets
* Do you have lots of scheduled reports being mailed out to users?
* Are you utilizing SN Discovery? The probes coming from the MID server don't always generate a lot of traffic but there will be a lot of them, and all the data needs to be returned via SOAP to the Service-now instance.
You can still do the packet capture, but the inputs can be a lot more variable in nature. Your infrastructure team would probably have a better idea on how to properly measure it within your environment.
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‎03-10-2014 04:37 PM
Hi Felipe,
What web browser are you using? I reccommend Google Chrome as you can use Tools > Developer Tools and then switch to the Network tab and browse to a page on ServiceNow you want to monitor the page size for, the total size of the transferred files will be in the bottom left of the developer tools and you can see individual files in the list.
Since ServiceNow is configureable your individual bandwidth usage will depend on the configurations you've made to each page, the more content you add the more bandwidth you will use. Then multiply by your users and average transactions per minute (System Logs > Client Transactions) and you can begin to estimate your bandwidth usage. There is also an output length field on Client Transactions which i think is in bytes, you could use this in a report to average over time.
Andy