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Re: Brocade XMR/MLX VLAN bit counters (Cacti graphs for brocade

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Noble)
Mon Jan 14 12:44:13 2013

From: Steven Noble <snoble@sonn.com>
In-Reply-To: <50F4428E.1040800@atrato-ip.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:44:04 -0800
To: Jeroen Wunnink | Atrato IP Networks <jeroen.wunnink@atrato-ip.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I saw the same issue for getting OpenFlow stats, you need the new 8x10 =
or 100GE cards afaict.

On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Jeroen Wunnink | Atrato IP Networks =
<jeroen.wunnink@atrato-ip.com> wrote:

> Sneaky hack: Slap an in+out rate limit on the vlan with high settings =
(i.e. same as port/lag speed) and just graph the OID of the rate limit =
counter :-)
> Might need to take a multiplier calculation/CDEF into account based on =
the number of ports you have in the lag.
>=20
> The new 8x10 cards have built in ve counters indeed which makes it a =
lot easier
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On 1/14/13 5:37 PM, Erik Muller wrote:
>> On 1/14/13 9:00 , James Wininger wrote:
>>> All,
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> -e
>>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
>=20
> Jeroen Wunnink
> Network Engineer
> Atrato IP Networks
> jeroen.wunnink@atrato-ip.com
> Phone: +31 20 82 00 623
>=20
>=20



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