[132564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cacti Bandwidth Monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Mon Nov 29 09:32:24 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:32:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Peter Rudasingwa <peter.rudasingwa@altechstream.rw>
In-Reply-To: <4CF3B796.3040006@altechstream.rw>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dear Peter,
> I have a cacti server running and it has been working fine so far except for
> one interface which has an average of 150Mbps going through it now. Before
> when I had less than 120Mbps I got proper graphs but of late it gives me
> graphs of 20Mbps when it should be giving me the correct reading (150Mbps).
>
> Is there a maximum bandwidth it graphs or can this be edited so that I get
> proper graphs?
32bit counters run over with 100mbit in less than 5 minutes.
solutions:
run poller every 1 minute & update rrd's heartbeat
or use 64bit counters
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger