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Nik
Cirrus
Cirrusmonitoring snmp pool/virtual throughput (per object)
i'm having trouble finding the oid for requests per sec or bytes/bits per sec per pool/virtual.. not overall. does such a thing exist?
the closest i've found is the total, not the current rate....
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusA rate would be pretty much unhelpful... It changes. And you'd have little or no control over how long the rate was calculated. You'd be at the whim of whichever developer/designer decided to use. They might like a 5 minute average (Shades of Cisco SNMP stats for CPU). But 5 minutes isn't good enough. They might like a 10 second average, but you only poll every 60 seconds... So you lose 5/6ths of the data.
Yes, you could conceivably save the data every second internally to the SNMPD and accept a value for making the calculation. But the S in SNMP is for SIMPLE.
Polling for totals and calculating the difference/polltime is the only way you can make your own decisions on frequency and be accurate.
H
