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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:07:24 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "John Indra" <john@office.naver.co.id>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Analyzing MRTG output
Message-ID:  <002901c09d88$cc9984a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010223102237.A30474@office.naver.co.id>

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You can't use just MRTG and SNMP on the Superstack for this.
This is what the RMON mib was developed for.

However, I believe that you CAN get stats on a per-port
basis, that way you can see if one port over the others is
responsible for the traffic change.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Indra
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:23 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Analyzing MRTG output
> 
> 
> Dear all...
> 
> I am monitoring traffic on my network with MRTG. I setup SNMP in my
> SuperStack II 3300 3Com switch, then run MRTG on each port to gather a
> statistics.
> 
> Ever since I installed those beautiful graphs, my boss start asking
> questions like:
> "Why is outgoing traffic from 5 to 7 o'clock is very high?"
> "What happens on 12 o'clock, there's a big spike in outgoing traffic?"
> 
> Can anyone share tips to answer those kind of questions?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> /john
> 
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