Patent ID: 7839782

Claim:
A method of managing traffic in a first set of nodes of a computer network having first set of nodes and a second set of nodes comprising: determining a source associated with an amount of network traffic over the first set of nodes comprising a first VLAN which exceeds a threshold, the source being outside a group of network elements assigned to the first set of nodes; automatically displaying an indication of the source in response to determining the source, wherein determining the source includes: determining top talker sources over said first VLAN and a second VLAN; determining VLAN identifiers for the top talker sources; and displaying the indication if the VLAN identifier of at least one of the top talker sources is not the same as the VLAN identifier of said first VLAN being tested; and reassigning the source to said first VLAN in response to determining the source comprises a node of a second VLAN.