I missed a key part of the original question and left my annoying signature in.  Double fail.

You can create alerts on arbitrary bandwidth usage, using the actual rates instead of percentages.  It looks like that is done with things like ifOutOctets_rate and ifInOctets_rate.  You may be out of luck for changing anything display wise though.

On 4/28/15 2:35 PM, Ron Marosko wrote:

I was going to suggest likewise, but that part that says "... that I can't
change what is reported via SNMP" pretty much eliminated the option of
tweaking the 'bandwidth' parameter in the device.

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-----Original Message-----
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kevin
Phair
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:29 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] Overrride bandwidth on a port?

On 4/28/15 2:12 PM, Spencer Ryan wrote:

Is there a way to override the bandwidth on a port that I can't change
what is reported via SNMP?

For example I have a 50Mb MPLS on a 100Mb Ethernet port. I want the %
used and % alerting metrics to be based on 50 and not 100.
*

On cisco gear, you can look at setting 'bandwidth <whatever>' on the
interface itself.  In most cases this won't change actual network
functionality.  This is used by things like EIGRP in its routing metric
work, so you'll want to be sure that isn't an issue first.

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