Re: [nsp] cisco usage stats

From: Y.L. Yeng (ylyeng@cuhk.edu.hk)
Date: Fri Jan 16 1998 - 14:53:18 EST


At 11:26 PM 1/15/98 -0500, you wrote:

>
>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
>
>

MIB object ID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.6 and .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.8 should
give the 5-minute average of input rate and output rate in bits per second.

-- Y L



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