Traffic Network on NIC

[beaujoire]

hello,
I'am Using zabbix 1.8.1 and i want to graph the network traffic on my NIC.

I use the OID "ifInOctets" and "ifOutOctets" with the unit="bps", a multiplier="8" and a store Value=Delta (Speed per second).

I'have read several post on this subject but solutions changes between the users.

I receive values like 400/500 kbps witch is rather low.
I'am wondering if I choose the rights parameters.

Thanks.

[ruswold]

hello,
I'am Using zabbix 1.8.1 and i want to graph the network traffic on my NIC.

I use the OID "ifInOctets" and "ifOutOctets" with the unit="bps", a multiplier="8" and a store Value=Delta (Speed per second).

I'have read several post on this subject but solutions changes between the users.

I receive values like 400/500 kbps witch is rather low.
I'am wondering if I choose the rights parameters.

Thanks.

I'm also used this oids "ifInOctetsN" and "ifOutOctetsN" with the same parameters and returned values is correct.
Why you think that values is rather low?

[beaujoire]

I have Gigabit NIC on my different servers, I expected Network traffic should be in Mbps minimum ...

For a Files server, or Mail server for example, values in Kbps seems to be low.
Maybe i wrong.
Have someone got these sort of values ?

Thanks

[alixen]

Hi,

I use ifInOctets/ifOutOctets on routers and switches, those values seem to be correct.

On servers, I use net.if.in[eth0,bytes] and net.if.out[eth0,bytes] from Zabbix agent.
If you suspect that SNMP values are wrong, you could also collect network traffic with Zabbix agent and compare it to SNMP.

Regards,
Alixen

[beaujoire]

I don't use net.if.in[eth0,bytes], my servers works with Windows.

I tried : net.if.in[X.X.X.X,bytes] ( where X.X.X.X= IPaddress ) but zabbix indicate an "unsupport value" on the graphical interface.

I use zabbix agent for disk space,memory,swap and it works.Have you got an idea ?

Finally I Compare with the windows counter performance and it seems to correspond.