Traffic tests

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:22 am

Hi,

I am a bit confused about the network traffic tests (again) .
In the help file I found the following line:

"Note #1: even though you specify traffic (or errors) limit in Kb/sec, Mb/min, etc, it doesn't mean that HostMonitor will check network interface every second or every minute. It checks the device by specified schedule and then calculates average traffic between 2 consecutive probes."

Average per what time unit? Per second?

If I test every minute, and in a given minute there was 60Mbit of traffic generated, would the result be 1Mbit?

Thanks!
Kris

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:22 am

Average per what time unit? Per second?

Depends on your settings. When you setup test you can choose KB/sec, KB/min, MB/sec, MB/min...

If I test every minute, and in a given minute there was 60Mbit of traffic generated, would the result be 1Mbit?

If you setup test using Mbit/sec option then yes, HostMonitor will show "1.00 Mbit" reply value.
If you setup test using Kbit/min option then HostMonitor will show "61440 Kbit" reply value.

Also, check options located on Misc page in HostMonitor Options dialog
- Display traffic using KB / MB units
- Display traffic using Kbit / Mbit units
- Select units considering test settings (threshold value)

Regards
Alex

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:26 am

KS-Soft wrote:Depends on your settings. When you setup test you can choose KB/sec, KB/min, MB/sec, MB/min...

Do you mean that the "Alert if" settings determine how the average is calculated?

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:24 am

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:09 am

Hmmmm... that 's weird.

I have Traffic test on an outside interface of a firewall, all setup in Mbit/sec.
It measures averages of 45Mbit up to 300Mbit and above....

On a 10Mbit Internet connection....

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:22 am

HostMonitor version?
Can we get SNMP access to your device?

Regards
Alex

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:40 am

HM Version 9.90

I'm afraid I cannot give you access to our firewalls

However, I will send you the make and model in a PM.

EDIT: I will not, since PM is disabled.
I will email you.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:07 am

So device does not return wrong value all the time, just once or twice a month ago?
We checked our code, looks fine and works fine checking thousand systems.

You may setup 5 SNMP Get tests with full logging to private log file and send log to us if problem occurs again.
Check the following counters
1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6.3
1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10.3
1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.3
1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.3
1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0

Regards
Alex

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:28 am

It looks like it reports too high values all the time (compared to the actual Internet bandwidth), but with some extremely high peaks at random.

I'll set up the test and let you know how it goes.

UPDATE:
Oid 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6.3 and 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10.3 are not available.
The others are running....

Thanks for your help so far!