November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 3m
English
Performance management involves monitoring the network, sounding alerts when certain thresholds are reached, and collecting statistics that enable you to carry out capacity planning. SNMP forms the basis for most monitoring and statistics-collection activities, although in certain cases more sophisticated and application-cognizant tools may be appropriate. Once again, the trick is in not getting carried away. Poll and archive only the bare minimum set of statistics you need for performance and accounting purposes.
Link utilization is one of the mainstays of performance management. The ifInOctets and ifOutOctets objects (or ifHCInOctets and ifHCOutOctets for high-speed interfaces offering ...
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