Data Collection Best Practices Setting Minimum Poll Interval

• Additional checks in determining minimum poll interval

  • Verify CPU Load on device is acceptable
  • Verify management traffic load created is acceptable
  • Wrap time for a given counter:

32-bit counters by link

speed/sec:

10M 57.26 minutes

100M 5.73 minutes

155M 3.69 minutes

1Gig 34 seconds

64-bit counters by link

speed/sec:

1 Terabit ~5 years

81,000,000 Terabits 30 minutes

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