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From: nipper@i32fs2.ira.uka.de (Arnold Nipper)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: serial link accounting
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Date: 7 Oct 90 11:13:51 GMT
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In article <27508@boulder.Colorado.EDU> ms@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Marc Sheldon) writes:
>
> > What is the best way to get serial line utilization statistics from
> > cisco routers?  I have turned on ip accounting and got session statistics,
> > but I would like more information about hourly averages, peaks, etc.
>
>I have a small sh and awk script running which polls our cisco router
>using Daniel Karrenbergs ciscotalk-utility (basically a primitive telnet)
>and extracts the data on the serial line interfaces on a five-minute basis.
>
>Marc

You can get information about utilization via snmp too. I have a short
awk script which produces an overview about current utilization of
all interfaces. I run a second script telling me about status of the
routing protocols. 

Arnold
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