Universal Device Poller

Question

I am trying to create a poller for an Alvarion base station.  The device has a Gb ethernet up-link port and antennas to provide Tx and Rx for fixed broadband internet (Wimax).  The wireless side has sectors with Rx and Tx separately.

I want to track the wireless data rate (in Kbps) for Rx and Tx.  The related OID in the MIB returns total bytes (excluding management and error frames) sent to the wireless for Tx and total bytes received from the wireless for Rx.

How do I transform this value (total bytes) to Kbps?  I have tried a number of different calculations but they do not correspend with the values returned by any other management software we have (eg. PRTG).

Does anyone have any experience dealing with an even remotely similar issue?

Jodie · Answer

Van,

We kinda gave up on this particular issue but it would be interesting to know generally how you worked around it.  You dont have to go into too much detail since this is purely academic.

Thanks.

vandewjj · Answer

Jodie,

We are in the same situation, and there are a number of things we have done to accommodate this.  Let me know if you are still having problems.