Gord,
What you are collecting from are counters. I believe SnmpCollect takes
the last five minute average. What you are collecting is the rate of data
flow through the devices. The actual amount of data is a different manner.
To indicate network capacity rate of data is fine. To see volume of data
increasing over time the actual amount might be needed. It is whatever you
want to do. In order to collect the volume I had to develop a system using
scripts, COBOL and SAS.
Good Luck.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gord Michaels <gord_michaels@hotmail.com>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 11:00 AM
Subject: snmpCollect data...
>Hello All.
>
>Over the past several weeks, I have been doing some snmpCollect data
>collection. Specifically, I have been collecting ifInOctets and ifOutOctets
>for several interfaces, polling both MIB Objects every 30 seconds...
>
>My questions are:
>
>1. When I generate the graph for my collected data, I have the option of
>showing either the maximun, minimun, or average. I am a little confused
>because I thought that snmpCollect would simple grab the value of
>ifInOctets/ifOutOctets every 30 seconds and store whatever that value was.
>How/Where is the average, minimum, maximum, values obtained if I am only
>polling every 30 seconds??
>
>2. It would be great if I could somehow add the ifInOctet and ifOutOctet
>data together, either during the data collection of post data collection.
Is
>there a way to do this within the Data Collection Facility in Netview ??
>
>Any information appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Gord Michaels.
>
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