Bandwidth Monitoring

[doorito]

Hi,

I'm using 1.8.x and have it working for the past 3 months now. I've been using it trying to get familiar with the product.

The forum has been extremely helpful with configuration and simple day to day stuff.

I'm trying to monitor the bandwidth on Windows servers. One of my item is:
"net.if.in[{IPADDRESS},bytes]"
Neumeric Float
Units: bps
No multiplier
Delta (speed per second)

and it has been giving me lots of information. The only problem is the information doesn't appear to be correct, I mean when I'm ghosting machines shouldn't the indication be maxed out for the connection. In my case it's 100MB switche. I read from Microsoft site that the value should be around 14MB but what does this supposed to mean? Should I not see it peek around 100MB? My value are around 10Mbps.

To get another view I also tried using this item: uNetwork.in0
A template I created using a VBScript posted by another user on this forum (Thank you). This value is totally different then from the above item. The value is top at 95Kbps.

Both items are listed as return bytes, so I don't have to do any math to convert from bits to bytes.

My question is, is there a way to see real representation of the bandwidth used? I know it's simply my lack of understand of the configuration and values I'm reading.

Any help is appricated.

[elvar]

Hi,

I'm using 1.8.x and have it working for the past 3 months now. I've been using it trying to get familiar with the product.

The forum has been extremely helpful with configuration and simple day to day stuff.

I'm trying to monitor the bandwidth on Windows servers. One of my item is:
"net.if.in[{IPADDRESS},bytes]"
Neumeric Float
Units: bps
No multiplier
Delta (speed per second)

and it has been giving me lots of information. The only problem is the information doesn't appear to be correct, I mean when I'm ghosting machines shouldn't the indication be maxed out for the connection. In my case it's 100MB switche. I read from Microsoft site that the value should be around 14MB but what does this supposed to mean? Should I not see it peek around 100MB? My value are around 10Mbps.

To get another view I also tried using this item: uNetwork.in0
A template I created using a VBScript posted by another user on this forum (Thank you). This value is totally different then from the above item. The value is top at 95Kbps.

Both items are listed as return bytes, so I don't have to do any math to convert from bits to bytes.

My question is, is there a way to see real representation of the bandwidth used? I know it's simply my lack of understand of the configuration and values I'm reading.

Any help is appricated.

I tend to prefer to look at throughput in mbit/sec so I usually use a multiplier of 8 which you may want to consider. For whatever reason though, it seems very hard to max the network connection in windows even when doing imaging unless it's a multicast image then I can usually max a 100mbit/sec connection with no problem.

[doorito]

I tend to prefer to look at throughput in mbit/sec so I usually use a multiplier of 8 which you may want to consider. For whatever reason though, it seems very hard to max the network connection in windows even when doing imaging unless it's a multicast image then I can usually max a 100mbit/sec connection with no problem.

I see, well I could try a multicast next to determine the bandwidth. I did have a multiplier of 8 but thought that since the data coming in was in "bytes" already I didn't need to multiply by 8 (8 bits in a byte), is my understanding incorrect?

[elvar]

I see, well I could try a multicast next to determine the bandwidth. I did have a multiplier of 8 but thought that since the data coming in was in "bytes" already I didn't need to multiply by 8 (8 bits in a byte), is my understanding incorrect?

http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?input_amount=1&input_units=bytes&notation=legacy

Based on that my understanding is to go from bytes to bits you need a multiplier of 8. Someone correct me please if I'm steering doorito wrong

[doorito]

Multicast

Nah, multicast didn't show any difference on the graph. I wonder if there's a way to measure the actual bandwidth on the network and compare it to Zabbix. I'm not doubting zabbix just wanting to see if there's a difference.

[elvar]

Nah, multicast didn't show any difference on the graph. I wonder if there's a way to measure the actual bandwidth on the network and compare it to Zabbix. I'm not doubting zabbix just wanting to see if there's a difference.

You can use the windows performance counter to view stats on your network throughput in order to see if it is matching up with what Zabbix is recording. When I have done this on the windows servers I monitor it was identical.

[doorito]

Nic

Yes, thanks for the reply. I did exactly as that and have verified the results. Thanks, zabbix is a wonderful product.

[tserreyn]

Nice spam

you can monitor your bandwidth using ProteMac Meter.It;s really nice prog)

I'm not sure this spam has anything to do with the thread.

[Charlie Espinosa]

Good day!

HI,

I'm trying to monitor the bandwidth usage of my network devices (switches, router and FW).
My goal is to monitor network traffic
But I'm not sure how to do the configuration.
Any advice/suggestion would be appreciated.