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Bandwidth on 100 Mbps port exceeds 100 Mbps

Debbi

Why would receive bandwidth on a port show above what it is capable of doing?

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StefanBrill

Hi Debbi,

i think you are collecting those statistic data every 10 minutes right?
The blue line shows the "real" data you have collected while polling.
The bars show you a suggested min/max data that could also be theoreticaly be reached during the period that you are not polling that device.

If you collect those statistic data more often those min/max data will be more accurate.

What's interesting in this case is, how often Orion collects data while polling a device
once. For example: if i do a icmp ping on a device using the good old fashion Dos-Box i'll get 4 replys by default. What will Orion do in that case. Will he ping the device once or will orion ping the device more times and calculate the average response time? Same with those Statistic Data. How often will he collect the Data during one Poll to calculate the average receive utilization?

Maybe someone here knows this.

greetings
stefan

charpham

I have same kind of question regarding a Point to Point DS3 link... My polling is set to 5 minutes and I will occasionally see min/max reach up to 60 Mbps..

Maybe somebody in Solarwinds can explain why this is occuring...

Debbi

My understanding was that the blue line was the average and the bars were the actual! -Debbi

FormerMember

The blue line is the average. The bars represent the range of data. If you're looking at 1-hour increments and you're polling every 5 minutes, then you'd get 12 samples. From those 12 samples, you would compute an average for the hour. You would then take the largest and smallest value of those 12 and that would define the two ends of the bar.