MRTG smooths data - not good for billing situations.
Thanks to all who replied.
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jay Stewart wrote:
> 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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