[cisco-voip] Newbie Question

[Jason Shearer]

With RTMT you can set up a performance counter (this is probably where you saw the 'real time' stats).  Once this is done you can right click on the graph and select 'Start Counter Logging'.  It will save it to a CSV which you can manipulate as you please.  Caveat: your instance of RTMT is actually logging the data so you have to keep it open.

If you have Solarwinds you don't need the voip module to count active DS1 or PRI channels.  You can set up a custom poller and collect the data.

Another thing I have done in the past is set up custom alerts in RTMT to send an email when a high water mark has been hit for a single or group of PRI/CAS trunks.  Gets the telecom managers attention pretty quick.....

Jason

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Frank Arrasmith
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:20 AM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Newbie Question

I was looking for more of a method to trend this over time.  I have seen and started messing with RTMT, but all that seemed to be real-time, not so much trending, unless I have missed something.  I am trying to capture peak utilization over time, like week/month/Year to date.  Is this Gateway Utilization part of RTMT, or another tool?
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
the gateway utilization reports will give you a good idea on the percentage of utilization throughout the time period. for example, it will tell you for a given period whether that gateway is being used 100%.

it's probably not what your looking for, but will give you an idea.


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From: "Frank Arrasmith" <frank.arrasmith at gmail.com<mailto:frank.arrasmith at gmail.com>>
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:44:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [cisco-voip] Newbie Question
Hi All,
   First time poster and kind of a newbie on CUCM.  One of my first tasks at my new position is to try to measure call volume on our gateways(MGCP/PRI) so my company can determine if they are being used efficiently.  Currently, I can only calculate erlang capacity based on the amount of T1's that we have, but have not found a good way to measure if we are getting anywhere near that capacity.  I am fine with trying to work it out myself for the learning part, but I would like to see if I am heading in the right direction at least.  The few methods that I have heard to measure BHT are:

IPSLA's on GW routers
CAR utility in Call Manager
some custom MIB's for cacti( not used in our network, so not really an option)
Expensive add-on to Solarwinds(used in our network, but the whole point was to study for cost reduction, so not an option either)

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,

Frank


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