Bandwidth included in Utilization Charts

When looking at utilization charts such as percent utilization, it would be beneficial to have the bandwidth on which the calculation is based included in the chart or chart header.

While the information is available elsewhere in the interface details, anyone looking at the chart below would instantly get a better idea of traffic if the interface bandwidth were included somewhere.

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michal.hrncirik

do you mean interface type (so it represents bandwidth) or really a caption of connectivity?

extrands

No, I simply mean that the interface bandwidth as configured on the interface, be displayed. If a 45M Serial interface is being viewed, but the configured bandwidth is 10M because the connected port is a subrate of the access circuit, it displaying the actual configured bandwidth, on the graph would be desireable. Looking at the example above- can you tell what the circuit capacity is? You can see it has periods of saturation, but not how much bandwidth is being consumed. The first question of management looking at the graph- how big is the circuit?

lewalker

It seems to me Orion should be able to put the actual bandwidth they are using to make the percent utilization calculation on the graph somewhere. As the report displays currently, you and your management and your customers don't know the bandwidth. You need to click to reference another report or check your router.