[j-nsp] Monitor Services PIC and M20

[Pablo Varela]

Hi, Robert,

I would use cflowd with a sampling rate of 1 (that means every flow).
If that taxes too much your fxp1 interface (sampling goes to the RE)
then you would need a monitoring PIC to avoid using the RE.

Pablo

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:48:53 -0600, "Roberts, Michael J. (IATS)"
<RobertsMJ at missouri.edu> said:
> We have the need to analyze flows going in and out of our campus and
> start billing for users that are using too much bandwidth.  We have not
> yet decided what too much is yet, so please do not ask.
> 
>  
> 
> We have an RMON probe setup behind our M20, but we are having a really
> hard time getting accurate information out of it.  I started thinking
> about possibly installing a monitor services PIC inside our M20 and
> export flow records from it.  We need to be able to identify top
> talkers.  But we also need to keep records on individual IP addresses.
> We also have the need to track contiguous ranges of IP addresses for
> aggregate billing.  The router does not handle more than a couple
> hundred Mb/s, and the records would need to be very accurate.  
> 
>  
> 
> We use Infovista for our reporting application, and we would like to
> export records to it.  I know we would need to purchase a plug-in, but I
> really wanted to see if anyone has already tried this combination.  I
> would like to have an off-list conversation with someone that has
> experience with this.   If Infovista is not the appropriate collector
> app to use, I would be willing to entertain options.  Thx.
> 
>  
> 
> -mike
> 
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