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how to calculate bandwith utilization

I want to know how NPM calculate  bandwidth utilization I used this formula found in thwack

 

Bandwidth Utlization formula:

Utilization:  The average percentage of bandwidth utilization rates the report period.
 
Bandwidth Utilization   | (Total Bytes In + Total Bytes Out) x 8 x 100% |
                                    |---------------------------------------------    |  / report period
                                    |  (Speed In + Speed Out)                                 |
 
 
still I don't get the utilization that shown in the interface detail page . please tell me how to calculate this ,
 
thank you
  • Cisco suggests it is calculated this way:

    Problem

    It is sometimes necessary to calculate bandwidth use with SNMP.

    Solution

    Use this solution to solve this problem.

    How you calculate use depends on how data is presented for what you want to measure. Interface use is the primary measure used for network use. Use this formulas, based on whether the connection you measure is half-duplex or full-duplex. Shared LAN connections tend to be half-duplex, mainly because contention detection requires that a device listen before it transmits. WAN connections are full-duplex because the connection is point-to-point; both devices can transmit and receive at the same time because they know there is only one other device that shares the connection. Because MIB-II variables are stored as counters, you must take two poll cycles and figure the difference between the two (hence, the delta used in the equation).

    This explains the variables used in the formulas:

    calculate_bandwidth_snmp.gif

    Note: ifSpeed does not accurately reflect the speed of a WAN interface.

    For half-duplex media, use this formula for interface use:

    calculate_bandwidth_snmp1.gif

    It is more challenging to calculate for full-duplex media. For example, with a full T-1 serial connection, the line speed is 1.544 Mbps. Therefore, a T-1 interface can both receive and transmit 1.544 Mbps for a combined possible bandwidth of 3.088 Mbps!

    When you calculate the interface bandwidth for full-duplex connections, you can use this formula, where you take the larger of the in and out values and generate a use percentage:

    calculate_bandwidth_snmp2.gif

    However, this method hides the use of the direction with the lesser value and provides less accurate results. A more accurate method is to measure the input use and output use separately, with this formula:

    calculate_bandwidth_snmp3.gif

    These formulas are simplified because they do not consider overhead associated with the protocol. For example, refer to RFC 1757 Ethernet-utilization formulas that consider packet overhead.

    All of the MIB attributes listed are also in RFC1213 MIB.

    Details of the MIB variables used in these formulas are:

    .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10
    ifInOctets
    OBJECT-TYPE
    -- FROM RFC1213-MIB, IF-MIB
    SYNTAX Counter
    MAX-ACCESS read-only
    STATUS Mandatory
    DESCRIPTION "The total number of octets received on the interface, including framing characters."
    ::= { iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) mgmt(2) mib-2(1) interfaces(2) ifTable(2) ifEntry(1) 10 }

    .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16
    ifOutOctets
    OBJECT-TYPE
    -- FROM RFC1213-MIB, IF-MIB
    SYNTAX Counter
    MAX-ACCESS read-only
    STATUS Mandatory
    DESCRIPTION "The total number of octets transmitted out of the interface, including framing characters."
    ::= { ISO(1) org(3) DOD(6) Internet(1) mgmt(2) mib-2(1) interfaces(2) ifTable(2) ifEntry(1) 16 }

    .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5
    ifSpeed
    OBJECT-TYPE
    -- FROM RFC1213-MIB, IF-MIB
    SYNTAX Gauge
    MAX-ACCESS read-only
    STATUS Mandatory
    DESCRIPTION "An estimate of the interface's current bandwidth in bits per second.
    For interfaces which do not vary in bandwidth or for those where no accurate estimation can be made,
    this object should contain the nominal bandwidth."
    ::= { ISO(1) org(3) DOD(6) Internet(1) mgmt(2) mib-2(1) interfaces(2) ifTable(2) ifEntry(1) 5 }


  • Thank you for your help , i get what I want now

  • Great!! Do you know how to create a report at NPM solarwinds using the formulas for BW input and BW output utilization?

  • There are already utilization percentages being done by SolarWinds that you should be able to use in your report.  Just use InPercentUtil and OutPercentUtil.