Question

How much management data would be generated in a centralized management approach, assuming data collection of nine SNMP counters on all routers and ICMP ping polling of all devices (network and user), with a polling interval of 5 minutes? Each SNMP counter and ping generates 64 bytes of data.

This is what our lecturer gives us:

Set number of routers X and number of users Y

Routers = X * (64*9)

Users = Y * 64

Management data generate in a centralized management approach = routers + users

Answer 1

Hey, Let's try to solve your question.

We can easily solve this question just by using a formula:

Data generated = (no. of interfaces x no. of SNMP counters x packet_size) / polling interval.

Now lets see what we have in our question.

Given: we have, SNMP counters, generated data, polling interval and no. of interfaces.

Polling interval = 5 min = 300 sec

SNMP generated data = 64 bytes

No. of SNMP counters = 9

no. of interfaces = 9

So these things are given, now we just have to apply it in formula to get the management data.

Data generated = (no. of interfaces x no. of SNMP counters x packet_size) / polling interval.

= ( 9*9*64 ) / 300

= 5184 / 300

= 17.28 bytes/sec

So here's you answer i.e., 17.28 bytes/sec.

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