Bandwidth utilization report - no Netflow

Question

Is there a way to get a bandwidth utilization report where: 1) you don't have the availability of using Netflow; and 2) you want to see the percent utilization of the actual available bandwidth, not as a it relates to the speed of the interface. What I mean by number 2 is, our ISP-facing interface is a 1Gb link, but we only get 500 Mbps of bandwidth from them. Any percent utilization reports I've done always use the capability of the interface as the number that NPM uses to calculate utilization percentage from, not the actual bandwidth that's available to us. Just wondering if there's an edit I can do to 'trick' NPM into thinking that 500 meg is the full pipe, not 1 gig.

Any of that make sense???

Jon Koelker

Oyster River School District

Durham, NH

jkoelker · Answer

Great - Thanks for the info! Much appreciated.

mesverrum · Answer

Just changing what Solarwinds thinks the max bandwidth is.  I can't think of any changes in NPM that get pushed back to the device.  Some other modules do use snmp rw to make changes but nothing that I can recall in NPM would.

jkoelker · Answer

Hi, and thanks for your response. I do have one question about this: when you edit the interface in the Orion console, are you actually changing the interface's capability - in other words, rate-limiting it to the value you set (500 Mb, for example)  - or does the interface still retain its actual speed capability of 1 Gb, but Orion simply treats it as if it were a 500 Mb connection?

Thanks again!

jk