Re: [nsp] cisco usage stats

From: Jay Stewart (cosmo@olywa.net)
Date: Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:29:24 EST


Try http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html which is a
collection of Perl scripts that allow to create graphs based on 5 minute, 30
minute, 2 hour, and 1 day average. Makes clean graphs and can run on NT as
well as *nix. Uses SNMP to poll for information.

Jay Stewart
Vice President
Olympia Networking Services - "Olympia's Premier ISP"
Phone (360) 753.3636 Fax (360) 357.6160 http://www.olywa.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
To: cisco-nsp@iagnet.net <cisco-nsp@iagnet.net>
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 8:39 PM
Subject: [nsp] cisco usage stats

>
>Currently developing a system to track usage stats on cisco interfaces in
>order to bill based on usage (burstable service).
>
>Pulling the IfOctets of total bytes, the stats seems to mysteriously reset
>to 0 on occasion. No reboots, etc.. throws the count off and makes one
>wonder how reliable the 'total bytes' stats are.
>
>What is the best method of getting reliable cisco usage stats, on a 5
>minute basis, over a long period. Prefer SNMP because of the low resource
>overhead vs. an expect script. Unable to find a SNMP variable that shows
>the 5-minute average as seen in 'sh int'.
>
> Stb
>



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