Bandwidth Augmentation Triggers
Deepak Jain
deepak at ai.net
Tue May 1 22:13:28 UTC 2007
MRTG and other things will do this kind of alerting for you if I am not
mistaken.
Certainly programs like Nagios and other "network" monitors can/will.
You will find that the more customers on a link (that is, the more the
link resembles a backbone link and not a customer link) the less spikey
the traffic is in general.
Individual/end-user links may need "upgrade" far sooner than their avg
or 95th suggests. (Depending on QoS needs). The smaller the circuit, the
more so. (Small here is anything under a Gigabit/s).
Just my thoughts,
Deepak Jain
AiNET
Jason Frisvold wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on a system to alert when a bandwidth augmentation is
> needed. I've looked at using both true averages and 95th percentile
> calculations. I'm wondering what everyone else uses for this purpose?
>
> We're talking about anything from a T1 to an OC-12 here. My guess is
> that the calculation needs to be slightly different based on the
> transport, but I'm not 100% sure.
>
> Thanks,
>
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