RE: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka@africaonline.co.sz>]

gipmanr@mtn.co.ug wrote:
> I think that we should be able to monitor individual ports so we know
> if an isp needs to upgrade it's pipe to the IX. 
> 
> The tools we use is cricket and cricket uses like mrtg snmp to gather
> the info needed. It give you a historical view of the traffic that
> can be accumulated if needed. BerklyDB is the backend for this.  

Hmmmh, okay then. But not sure if ISPs want the decisions for bandwidth
upgrade to lie with the audience of this data, or in their budgets.

Still, it wouldn't hurt to have both, so that we get an actual, single
reading of how much data, as a total of all the ISPs, is crossing the IX
switch. This should allow you to know:

a) how much traffic each ISP is generating at the IX
b) how much local traffic there is in UG

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mtinka@africaonline.co.sz]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:50 PM
> To: Rob Gipman; kenneth@cfi.co.ug
> Cc: nambalec@bushnet.net; lug@linux.or.ug; techies@uixp.co.ug
> Subject: RE: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania
> 
> 
> owner-techies@uixp.co.ug wrote:
>> Mark,
>> 
>> Good point!
>> 
>> Also possible if we know what isp is on what port and the switch can
>> handle snmp 
>> 
>> Rob
> 
> Indeed!
> 
> If that becomes too difficult, you could look into the HP equivalent
> for SPAN (Switch Port Analyser) and/or RMON (Remote Monitoring), so
> the stats server picks up the entire traffic running through the
> switch, as a cumulative figure for all members, rather than
> monitoring each port independently.    
> 
> Or, you could find out what SNMP MIBs are available from HP, so you
> have more latitude in generating a single image of the state of
> traffic, for the entire switch.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Tinka
> Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland

Regards,

Mark Tinka
Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland



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