Hi,

I will be deploying Zenoss Core as our network monitoring system soon for 
approximately 600 devices. Before I do this I need something cleared up.

Zenoss monitors the interfaces on our Routers and switches, etc.  To get some 
more detail I have added some extra data points such as errors, discards, 
broadcast, etc.  to the ethernetCsmacd template. So far so good.

Now here come the questions:

- We do not want to see averages in our graphs (Zenoss default) but always the 
peaks.  Therefore I have set the Consolidation in the “Graph points” to MAX 
instead of the default AVERAGE. Is this enough, is there more info about the 
MAX setting ?  Is a different setting more appropriate ?

- Some of the numbers in the graphs are not quite clear to me. For example when 
I look at the inbound discarded packets on an interface it shows values like 
“cur : 0.00    avg: 3.17m    max: 7.29m”.  Were does the 7.29m as a max 
value come from ? It seems rather impossible for the maximum value of discarded 
packets on an interface to be 7.29m packets. The SNMP value for Discarded 
packets is an integer of type counter. I have tried setting the data point type 
to “COUNTER” and “DERIVE” with the same result.  I see the same problem 
for multicast, unicast, broadcast packets, etc.  Same issue for data points of 
type GAUGE, such as the number of SSL clients on our Cisco ASA.   Cur: 7.78   
avg: 3.67   max: 14.55. How can there be currenlty: 7.78 clients ?


Anyone who can shed some light on this, it would be very much appreciated.




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