snmp monitor interface traffic

RouterOS General
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How can I use snmp to check the kb/s traffic of an interface in mt? the oid of 10 & 16 is supposedly bytes in & out but this seems to be an ever incrementing value, and not a per second value? This seems like others would have asked before but I couldnt find any references on the forums?

Thanks

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  1. Built-in graphs provide required statistic.

  2. I think you can create queue without limitation, that is dedicated to certain interface traffic. Monitor this queue statistic, if you want to use remote SNMP monitoring.

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Subtract the previous recorded query of bytes in/out from the current SNMP read of those values. Then divide it by the time interval in seconds to get bytes per second. You should be able to make a little script to do this which mrtg can call if you are using mrtg.

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ah, ok, i after sleeping on it i thought thats what i should do, as that would make sense how stuff gets average graphs over periods of time.

Thanks