SNMP-Based Monitoring of Network Interfaces

AggreGate Network Manager can be configured to periodically poll network hosts via SNMP and obtain the following information about their network interfaces using ifTable SNMP variable:

AggreGate Network Manager uses these values to estimate interface traffic and bandwidth utilization. For devices with the ifTable available an Interface Traffic (interfaceTraffic) variable is created. It contains calculated values as described in the following table:

You can review this information for a particular device executing this query, for example, in Query Executor:

SELECT * FROM users.*.devices.deviceContext:ifTable as data

(Substitute the deviceContext with the name of your device context.)

The network interface monitoring data can be visualized using, for example, the following out-of-the-box charts:

You can also see this data in table form using reports, namely:

Functional characteristics of individual interfaces on routers and switches can be used as to detect network problems. AggreGate Network Manager provides several alerts for that:

You can create custom tools for monitoring and analyzing activity of network interfaces.