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interface errors and discards

Gunvant desai
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Hi ,

 

we have several cisco devices deployed in network, and using cisco prime to monitor these devices.

 

Can anybody tell me how prime is calculating input and  output errors/discards?

 

Top N Interface Errors and Discards            
Device Name Device IP Address Interface Name Input Error Rate(%) Output Error Rate(%) Input Discard Rate(%) Output Discard Rate(%)
KQQW1001.chrysaoruk.local 10.162.10.201 GigabitEthernet1/0/10 0 0 0 0.01

 

And what is bad value/threshold value for interface errors/discards?

 

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Leo Laohoo
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Value is against the total output packets vs the total output drop.

Joseph W. Doherty
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"And what is bad value/threshold value for interface errors/discards?"

For errors, you ideally would like to always have zero percent. However, Ethernet does have an acceptable, by design, bit error rate (which I don't recall what it is, but is a very small).

For discards, again, ideally you like to see a zero value. However, very generally speaking, up to 1% is often considered acceptable, but in some cases that can be too high (even much too high). Further, discards tend to happen in bursts, so a short term drop rate might be a much higher percentage, which is often not "visible" over a longer term average (often 5 minutes).

What's an acceptable discard rate for one kind of traffic might be unacceptable for another kind of traffic. Further, discards impact can vary based on the overall RTT of TCP traffic.
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