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Hello,

We have remote web servers we're monitoring using SNMP. The OID we're using is ServerStatisticTransmitBytes. Everything is connecting properly and we're getting a response back. This monitoring service is going to be used to monitor our customers outgoing web traffic to be able to track how much data the web server is sending out, in order to charge the client accordingly if their bandwidth is costing us more and more money per month.

The issue we're running into is the value / number XI is returning doesn't mean much to us. Is there a way within NagiosXI to take this SNMP value and turn it into some sort of baseline graph / chart so we can see how much data / bytes, etc we're at on a monthly basis?

If XI can't do this, can it be done on a professional services level with some sort of script?

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I need to further define the issue.

Thank you.

One more question..

Attached is a pic of the graph I created with my SNMP monitoring of the sent bytes.

I see on the left side of the graph there is 3.0, then 2.0, going down, etc. Is that 4.0 megabytes, etc? On the bottom right it says 3.2653 c max. What does the C mean?

Thank you!

To be honest I am not familiar with this oid, nor what it returns.

Is this a switch or router you are monitoring?

I believe its a port on a switch.

I would just use the Network Switch / Router Wizard

It will do the math and calculate the value that you expect, i.e avg Mbps

I believe the reason we can't use the router / switch wizard is because we have multiple clients coming in on the same port of the switch, then getting routed to their own virtual IPs internally. So I believe the data we would pull would be for ALL clients, not each individual client.

Although the info you just gave is helpful and I can use it.

I guess my main question for now is.....do you or your team know what the graph numbers on the left as well as the C value is in the pic I attached?

My guess would be Bytes, but as I mentioned before I am not familiar with the OID ServerStatisticTransmitBytes.

I tried looking it up on the Internet and found nothing....

Thank you for your help!