[cisco-voip] Newbie Question

[Peter Slow]

I very much second Jason's recommendation. ...CAR occasionally will
spit out things that make little to no sense.

> 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’.

...RTMT is very flexible when it comes to looking at stats for various
things in your CUCM  environment if you know how to use it properly.

-Peter


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jason Shearer <jshearer at amedisys.com> wrote:
> There is an option for PDF or CSV output for the CAR utilization report.
>
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> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:21 AM
> To: Frank Arrasmith
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Newbie Question
>
>
>
> gateway utilization is part of CAR. i can't recall if it allows for CSV file
> export.
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> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Arrasmith" <frank.arrasmith at gmail.com>
> To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 11:19:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> 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> 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.
>
>
> ---
> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
>                               - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Arrasmith" <frank.arrasmith at gmail.com>
> To: 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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