[mrtg] Re: Cisco Buffer Hits OID

[Jonathan Ford]

My apologies for straying from the group topic. I too am trying to convince
management that our WAN speeds need to be upgraded and have met with the
same "where's the problem?" response. I was hoping that you could direct me
to the source of the 50% rule of thumb so I could show some "black & white"
proof that this is true.

Any suggestions would be helpful,

Jonathan Ford
IS Analyst
Elliptus Technologies
Manchester, NH


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Bartkus" <patrckb at hotmail.com>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: [mrtg] Cisco Buffer Hits OID


>
> I'm trying to convence management that certain WAN links need help. They
see
> the utilization bouncing between 50% and 75% and say, "what's the problem?
> There's plenty of capacity left." They don't want to hear that the rule of
> thumb is 50% == full.
>
> So, I want to graft Cisco buffer hits. If, I can show them that the
buffers
> keep getting hit, that that means that packets are having to get queued up
> to get across the WAN link. A queued packet is a delayed packet.
>
> I've been trying to find the Cisco OID for buffer hits and can't seem to
> find one. I'm looking for the values you see when you type "show buffers."
>
> In OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB I found a set of OIDs that seem to relate, but my
> router (IOS 12.0.9) doesn't seem to have those values in it's tree. I also
> searched the list archive and didn't find any relevant postings.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Patrick
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