SolarWinds Reporting and Configured Bandwidth

[Patrick McHenry]

Hi,

I'm wondering where in the config I should configure the bandwidth that Solarwinds will use to measure the percent usage? For instance: under the interface command, if I configure bandwidth 1000, will SolarWinds  think that the interface is 1000000 mbps and display the interfaces' percent utilization based on that?

Thank you, Pat.

[John Blakley · Accepted solution]

Pat,

With Solarwinds, it does take into account the bandwidth statement because that directly affects the interface BW. You can also, but I wouldn't recommend it, change the bandwidth under the interface in Solarwinds directly under "manage nodes\router\interface". There's a section for Customize Bandwidth. You'll notice that it references the bandwidth that you have configured under the interface. If you don't reference a specific bandwidth, it will use the bw that it finds for that interface using snmp.

HTH,

John