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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>If your network is so overloaded that a SNMP query per device every 5 minutes causes an implosion, I’d skip the MRTG and re-engineer your network! SNMP is very low priority and should in no way collapse your network.<BR>
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On 10/9/08 9:31 AM, "Jack Bauguer" <jbauguer@yahoo.es> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Hi,<BR>
Im trying to build a traffic analyzer based on Mrtg here for my company, (10 big routers 80 switches 80 servers Cisco/Nortel).<BR>
There was an argument about creating this Mrtg-Server, some people claim it would be suicidal, because many of the routers and switches operates with heavy traffic and cpu load (about 75-85%) and querying these elements every 5 minutes would collapse the network.<BR>
Can somebody give me some feedback on this, I personally dont believe that querying through snmp every 5 minutes can cause such damage on the network, even if they are on high capacity, i think maybe it could cause a small delay on the query but nothing else, right?. I have allready worked in a smaller enviourment and had no problems, but I need some technical arguments to convince these guys, <BR>
any ideas?<BR>
regards. JB<BR>
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