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devicenull
Asked: 2010-11-25 14:24:02 +0800 CST

Windows network SNMP traffic overflow?

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How would I go about retrieving 64 bit counters for network traffic on windows (Server 2008 specifically)? I'm seeing too many rollovers on the 32 bit counters for our polling interval, leading to gaps in the data.

We feed the data through RRDTool, which can successfully handle one rollover per polling period, but can't deal with two. 64bit counters would prevent this issue, but I can't seem to find a way to enable them on windows

windows-server-2008 rrdtool snmp

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  1. Best Answer

    According to Tiger Li, a moderator on Microsoft's TechNet, it's not possible:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/winservergen/thread/07b62ff0-94f6-40ca-a99d-d129c1b33d70

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  2. In general these would be keep in the HC counters: IF-MIB::ifHCInOctets

    If you can't pull these from Windows, I think your best bet might to be if your switch has these counters in their IF-MIB table and pull it from there.

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  3. Although there are no 64-bit SNMP counters on Windows (as Keith mentioned), and perfmon counters won't give reliable information because they are already rate values (bytes/sec) if you don't mind installing nsclient you can pretty easily use WMI

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