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multicast and unicast - packet errors as a percentage

Hi forum

I am finally starting to use MS reporting services to mine data out of solarwinds. one of the reports i need to make (as i am migrating from CA Unicentre) is interface errors, as a percentage of current traffic.

i was thinking that if i just got the packets throughput, and the errors throughput, then i would do a percentage of one against the other, and hey presto...

however, i see a multicast and a unicast counter, do i need to add them together? what is the difference?

Anyone done something like this?

cheers

dan

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mcbridea

Hi Dan,

I can't get to my NetPerfMon db right now s o I can't see what you are seeing. If the multicast/unicatst is on the same level as the error traffic then it is just another way of counting the total traffic. If the multicast counter is a division of the error traffic then you need to sum them. I hope this is helpful.

Andy

FormerMember

Hi Andy

thanks for the reply...

It looks like there is a sum value in there for total packets through in a given time, and total errors in a given time, so i think i can ignore the multi and uni-cast stuff..

now i have to work out how to pull the data about errors, and traffic into a single report.... i was stealing SQL from report writer, but there is no report you can create in SW report writer that has error and utilisation summary data within it...

any thoughts?

mcbridea

You could modify the Total Bytes Transfered by Interface - This Month report and add a field for Interfaces -> Errors_Discards -> Recv Errors this Hour and another field for Xmit. Then change the report time frame to Past Hour so you have apples to apples. Otherwise you can create it from scratch as an Advances SQL Report.

FormerMember

cheers dude,

I am having a play witht hat now... my problem will be when i need to get an average over an 8 hour period...

total packets xmit in last hour (aggregate of all 5 minute values in interface-traffic table - i think)

total packer errors in last hour (single stat collected every 5 mins)

i need to be able to pull multiple packet error fields, average them, without accidentally pulling back multiple error stats within a single hour etc...

i wonder am i making sense LOL as I am confused myself