[159542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Brocade XMR/MLX VLAN bit counters (Cacti graphs for brocade VLANS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Muller)
Mon Jan 14 11:38:00 2013
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:37:20 -0500
From: Erik Muller <erikm@buh.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 1/14/13 9:00 , James Wininger wrote:
> All,
>
> We are running into an issue with Brocade where we are finding it difficult to to graph VLAN interfaces for bits (in/out) across a tagged (trunk) interface. On Cisco this is not an issue. So what we end up with in Cacti is a blank (no data) graph.
Depending on the specific hardware you're using, you may be out of luck -
early generations of MLX/XMR line cards don't support per-vlan statistics;
you need to have the new 8x10GE cards (or a few others of the current
generation) to have those counters available.
-e
