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## SMB-Monitor

The SMB Monitor provides a board for comprehensive investigation into Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol/application running in the enterprise network. SMB is a very popular Windows<sup>TM</sup> file transfer application used in Microsoft environments. Use this monitor to discover

- SMB servers running in the network,
- The number of SMB transactions and end users using SMB.
- Servers and users experiencing SMB failures and poor SMB latency.
- Traffic throughput volumes of SMB application per server and study servers performing poorly due to huge number of connections or traffic volume.

The SMB monitor links to SMB response Monitor and SMB map monitor to facilitate deep study of

- file paths,
- file names in each SMB transaction.

For details see:

1. [Dashboard-SMB-Monitor](../detailed_dashboards/SMB-Monitor.htm)