Cisco 6506E interface throughput analysis

[adeebtaqui]

Greetings,

Can someone please share their experience and knowledge about how to make throughput analysis of incoming traffic over uplink port on 6506E

[balaji.bandi]

Can you provide more information what you looking to analysis. you can setup netflow to analyse if you have NMS. (is this what you looking ?)

[adeebtaqui]

Hi Balaji,

We want to analyse throughput by observing network incoming traffic on 6506E te1/0/1 port that is recieving traffic from local network. Our customer wants a firewall before that interface te1/0/1 to monitor traffic before entering 6506E.

So we planned to used SPAN on te1/0/1 as source and and use another rj45 port on 6506 as destination where our laptop with PRTG monitoring tool would be placed.

Will this work?

There is no Cisco NMS available to check netflow.

[balaji.bandi]

SPAN port give you more information, if you have reasonable tools make them user readable graphs and GUI. PRTG do support netflow (free with  some limits)

[adeebtaqui]

Hi @balaji.bandi 

Below is the interface details that uplinks to core switch.

So I need to calculate from this port's output traffic the traffic throughput. Please advise what is the calculation or throughput?

5 minute output rate 111384000 bits/sec, 13311 packets/sec

TenGigabitEthernet1/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is C6k 10000Mb 802.3, address is 001c.588e.ed40 (bia 001c.588e.ed40)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 2/255, rxload 6/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 10Gb/s
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 00:00:03, output never, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/2000/5/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 272363000 bits/sec, 33282 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 111384000 bits/sec, 13311 packets/sec
52616931742 packets input, 57009860758592 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 49967471114 broadcasts (2435189373 multicasts)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
5 input errors, 2 CRC, 2 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
21730980537 packets output, 24225933950828 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 3 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

[balaji.bandi]

Mirror the port or enable netflow and analyse what traffic is that,