Bandwidth resources

Assuming per interface, it depends on what specifics you are looking for.  If I have a 100meg link I don't usually like to know only how much data *right now* is filling up that interface.  I want to know %used, Bytes/sec, and packets/sec, and I want to know both directions and averages.

So for bandwidth I use a custom tab at the interface level with:

Percent Utilization(step)

Average bits per sec(step)

Min/max/average bps in/out

Average packets per sec

Total bytes transferred

Total packets transferred

All that because a full pipe *to me* is never just full, because I am the one who has to fix it or diagnose it or otherwise address the issue.  However if I am serving up a view for a manager or supervisor that requires bandwidth I usually use the "Percent Utilization(step)" and I add the trend.

Sorry that's kind of a long answer, its just I've never found it just as simple as "how much bandwidth am i using".  Everyone has their own methods and reasons for them.

thanks this helps out a lot i will put all this together and try to get these guys to tell me exactly what they want.