Confusion about Octets

[rainerh]

Hello everybody,

I'm using Zabbix in version 1.8.2 and want to use for it for network montoring (what else?). As you know network traffic is given in SNMP by an OID like ifHCInOctets.xxxxx
I want to monitor the average network traffic in Bits/sec. So far I have seen three different approaches:

• Zabbix templates set this value to Integer and multiplier to 1
• Somewhere I've read that it would be enough to set the data type to Octet instead of Integer and leave multiplier to 1
• Zabbix Wiki tells me I have to set the multiplier value to 8 (http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/monitor/snmp/snmp)

Intuitively I would follow suggestion #3 but now I'm not sure...

Thanks for your help in advance!

[alixen]

Hi,

We use option 3.
It is working fine.

Hope this helps
Alixen

[rainerh]

Hi Alex,

thanks for your answer. I will trust you and also use option 3.

Greetings

[SpiderX]

by an OID like ifHCInOctets.xxxxx

1 Octet = 1 Byte
If you need Bit you should multiply the value by 8.