Hi Running Windows 2008 Server and Windows XP clients. We have an application running on a server box, every now and then the clients need to download updates from the server. It would be useful to know how much data the client is attempting to download from the server. Does anyone know 1. any tools I can run from the server side that will list clients and how much data they're pulling down? 2. I can also run netstat on the server to find all client IP connections, if I wanted to check if a certain client was connected, is there a command I can run that will filter the netstat output to just that client?

What application and update are you talking about? If it is a third party application, do they have any management console for this application? Netstat will display only the connection details not really download information. You can filter Netstat using Find command – netstat | find “servername” You can also use TVPVIew - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437 If you really want to monitor network activities, you can use Microsoft Netdom or Wireshark Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX Blogs - http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ Articles - http://www.sivarajan.com/publications.html Twitter: @santhosh_sivara - http://twitter.com/santhosh_sivara This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.