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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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