Gathering peek bandwidth usage form a list of devices?

[TBT]

Currently our NOC has been navigating to individual devices to record peek bandwidth. This is time consuming and cumbersome.

What is the best way to gather peek bandwidth usage, from a list of specific network elements, every 24 hour period?

[ssax]

You should be able to use Reports > Bandwidth Report if you're monitoring them from our Network Switch / Router wizard for the port they are looking at. If you look at the graphs it should show the MAX as well. Will those meet their needs? Otherwise you'd would need to create another service that checks peak bandwidth.

[TBT]

Right, but the drop-down list on Bandwidth Usage Reports do not allow for multiple selections (Ctrl+select). As I've mentioned, they require several network elements in the report, rather than going to each individually.

I know the data can be extracted at the command line with rrdtool fetch. However, general users do not have shell access and is still executed individually (could be scripted).

We prefer to keep users within the GUI. Any further suggestions for getting several network elements into one report?

[ssax]

Ok, there's not really any other options than adding a service and doing the peak checks in there so that you can return the results to the XI interface for them to view. Your plugin can query the RRDs on the command line but there's not other way to access that info at this time given the current features.

I can submit a feature request on your behalf if you'd like. Please keep in mind that the decision to implement the enhancement is at the discretion of our development team.

Thank you

[TBT]

Sure, might as well make a request. I believe it would be beneficial.

[ssax]

I've submitted the request, I agree it would be useful as well:

FR - XI: Add the ability to multi-select interfaces in the bandwidth report or give some way of showing peak bandwidth for multiples in a report fashion

Thank you