Simple Report for Combined Traffic on Multiple Interfaces

pdavapark

I've been trying to find a quick way to build an on-the-fly report of the sum of multiple interfaces transmit/receive in a chart. It seems like the simplest of things but I've never been able to easily do this without a separate chart for transmit and receive.

Example: We have redundant routers for everything we do, traffic flows through both at any one time. We are often asked "What's the total traffic for customer X over the past month?". In Scrutinizer this was extremely easy, we could search for the relevant interfaces, select them, run a volume report, done. In Orion this is a monumental task with no way to easily summarize the same statistic for multiple interfaces or a way to easily just build a report on the fly like this. Is this functionality available in NTA-only, or are we just completely out of luck with SolarWinds on this one? Seems like a very common thing, but maybe I'm crazy, we're only using NPM at this time but I've used NTA in the past.

mesverrum

I was able to whip this together fairly painlessly.  Could be faster but it's not excruciating

Did that like using the custom chart resource, gave it the names of two of my interfaces

Defined the time period I wanted to go back, told it the units to display, set it to show with a stacked area and include the sum

It took me maybe 5 minutes to figure it out and play with the settings to get it looking how I wanted, and if I had to do a bunch of them I would probably just clone that resource and go in and change the datasources as necessary.  If I had to do this very often then I would probably end up using direct SQL queries to make them and edit them, but that's getting into a space fewer people want to be.  Hope that helps.

-Marc Netterfield

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