If your links are fixed bandwidth, charting percentage utilization can work OK.
For links on which bandwidth may change over time (satellite links, for instance) I found maintaining long-term stats was easier if I charted Kb/s or Mb/s. With a large disparity in link speeds, you can either do as Mike suggested and set the chart to Log scale, or make separate charts for LAN and WAN interfaces. Evan On Thu 12/09/20 17:20 , Paul Carlson pcarl...@guam.net sent: > > When charting paths of multiple speeds I usually adjust link speeds to > accurately represent data payload and chart percentage. > > Paul - Guam > > On Sep 21, 2012, at 12:51 AM, mmaki wrote: > > > Hi Christopher, > Those actually added to the chart as Mbps. Now when we > add a new link to this same chart, even though the value on the link status > page is listed as xx Mbps, it's adding to the chart as just bps. This > causes our new link with hardly any traffic on it to be charted way above > the current links. (3000 bps charts a lot higher than 150 Mbps). > > The Chart Options tool (gear icon in the lower left of > the chart), Vertical Axis tab, will allow you to set the units to use any > of a number of prefixes including kilo (k) or Mega (M); this will apply to > all traces on the chart. > > There are two radio buttons for the scale setting - > Logarithmic and Linear. Linear is the default, but if there is a big > difference between the interface speeds you're charting, or their > utillization, you may want to use the log scale instead to make the traces > more readable. > > The Label field is for the axis label, and can be used > to clarify the units being displayed. > > Please let me know if I haven't answered the question > fully. > > > best regards, > > > -- > > > Mike Maki > > > Technical Support > > > Dartware, LLC > > > > > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > > http://forums.intermapper.com/viewtopic.php?p=4221#4221 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > List archives: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.co > m/ > > To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > List archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.co > m/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com
