Interfaces Simple SNMPv2 Graph Scale Wrong

[TimGuyUK]

Hi

Ive snmp'ed discovered some HP switches. 5412zl and some HP1950. All have a mixture of 100Mb, 1Gb and 10Gb ports.

I didn't consider a problem till I tried to show the bits sent and received. The scales are wrong. The 10Gb nics I know are sending data well over 1-2Gpbs sustained for the duration of time but they are showing in the graph as 15-20 Mbps.

I'm guessing that the numbers are correct just that the decimal point is in the wrong place?

Can I resolve the Template Simple SNMPV2 data or would I have to import proper mibs for the switches to show the correct scale?

Thanks

Tim

[kaspars.mednis]

Its really strange, because all snmp traffic data are simple octet counters, it does not depend on iface speed. Zabbix just grabs octet count every n seconds, calculates the delta and divides by seconds to get speed.

Do you have multiplier by 8 on traffic items (received data is in octets, need to multiply by 8 to get bits)

Regards,
Kaspars

[TimGuyUK]

Its really strange, because all snmp traffic data are simple octet counters, it does not depend on iface speed. Zabbix just grabs octet count every n seconds, calculates the delta and divides by seconds to get speed.

Do you have multiplier by 8 on traffic items (received data is in octets, need to multiply by 8 to get bits)

Regards,
Kaspars

Thanks for your reply Kaspars

You made we retrace and google some more. I came across this

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-2188

"since 3.4.0 there are two templates for SNMPv2 available:
Template Module Interfaces SNMPv2 with 64bit counters
Template Module Interfaces Simple SNMPv2 with 32bit counters"

I was using the simple SNMPv2. I changed my templates to the SNMPv2 and now I'm getting 10Gb reporting from my SAN ports.

Brilliant.

Tim