Hi Matthias,

Storing this information would have too great an impact on the performance of the ports table, I think.

It would involve 4 extra fields in the ports table (it would be worthless to store "pps", as it would just be unicast+nonunicast).

To store this we'd need in/out counters and in/out rate. If we added this, you would be very unpopular with some of our larger installations... ;)

Are there really reasons to alert on non-unicast in the wild?

Thanks,
Adam.

Adam.

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On 15 Jul 2016, at 20:51, Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer@iway.ch> wrote:

Hi There

Is there a metric for normal packets per second and not only unicast packets (ifInUcastPkts_rate) and also a metric for non unicast packets per second. According to the doc at
http://www.observium.org/docs/entities/#metrics_1 this is not existent... I would like to make an alert on high pps and if possible on high non unicast pps.

Any hint is appreciated.

Regards

  Matthias